Building Dynamic Websites With Joomla CMS
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The document is a presentation about using the open-source content management system (CMS) Joomla to build dynamic websites. It discusses what a CMS is, compares static and dynamic websites, outlines Joomla's features for managing and publishing content, customizing templates, and optimizing sites for search engines. The presentation also covers deploying Joomla, user management, maintenance, and migrating from other systems to Joomla.
Building Dynamic Websites With Joomla CMS
- 1. Thomas Siegers Songfuli Co., Ltd. May 20, 2010 Building dynamic websites with Joomla CMS Design, Configure, Use
- 2. About This presentation is publicly available at: http://www.slideshare.net/thomasjs Hosted by Chinese Culture University (PCCU) European Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan This presentation is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
- 3. Summary Joomla open-source content management system A tool for building and maintaining websites, low cost, easy to use, very suitable for small and medium sites, the right choice for self-made entrepreneurs.
- 4. Website Basics Static vs. Dynamic
- 5. CMS Basics
- 8. Enhancements
- 10. Maintenance
- 11. Migrating
- 12. Static vs. Dynamic Static Content embedded in HTML code
- 13. Content and layout partly independent
- 14. Entering content is like programming
- 15. Interactive features require CGI programming
- 16. No special requirements on web host
- 17. Faster than dynamic web site Dynamic Content stored in database
- 18. Content and layout completely independent
- 19. Entering content is like word processing
- 20. Interactive features are available by software components
- 21. Web host must provide database and programming language
- 22. Slower than static web site
- 23. CMS Basics: What is a CMS? CMS: Content Management System
- 24. General : computer software system for managing content
- 25. Here : web content management system computer software system for managing content on an Internet website
- 26. allows users to create and manage content in a way similar to word processing
- 27. used to maintain a website, not to create it Other : enterprise content management system also called: document management system (DMS)
- 28. CMS Basics: Functionality Browser requests web page
- 29. Web server recognizes dynamic request
- 30. Application software retrieves content from database
- 31. Application software constructs web page dynamically
- 32. Web server delivers web page to browser Language Module Web Server Web Browser Application Software Content Request Response Webpage Database
- 33. CMS Basics: Products Commercial Prices range from some hundred Dollars to some hundred thousand Dollars Open Source Joomla!
- 34. Drupal
- 35. Typo3
- 36. phpNuke
- 37. XOOPS
- 38. Plone
- 39. … and many more
- 40. Deployment Options Within own network very fast access from inside
- 41. data inside the organization security threat Shared web host inexpensive slow response with high volume traffic Dedicated web host fast access from everywhere
- 42. very reliable operation data outside the organization
- 43. Managing Content Set-up hierarchical content structure e.g. section-category-content
- 44. Set-up menu structure independent from content structure
- 45. Create content online using WYSIWYG word processor
- 46. Publish content - manually (immediately) - automatically (scheduled) - workflow authorized (draft, revise, approve) - front page (yes/no)
- 47. Maintain content update, unpublish, archive, delete
- 48. Enhancements Multimedia image gallery, streaming audio/video, YouTube
- 49. Communication newsletter, guest book, forum, chat, polls
- 50. Collaboration calendar, event list, project management
- 51. E-Commerce web shop, payment, auction, Amazon
- 52. Web Marketing advertising banners, classified ads, SEO
- 53. Data Management forms, database queries, file manager
- 54. User Management Different user types Organizational: internal, external
- 55. Technical: frontend, backend Access rights frontend, backend
- 56. submit, create, edit, publish content Enhancements Contact management
- 57. Mass mail
- 58. Newsletters
- 61. References to third party services Upgrades Major releases (e.g. Joomla 1.0 -> 1.5)
- 62. Minor releases
- 63. Extensions
- 64. Migrating Three kinds of migration Upgrade from previous version
- 65. Clone, backup – restore, move to a new site
- 66. Replace existing CMS or static web site Migrating from legacy CMS No straightforward way
- 67. Analysis of data model
- 68. Programmatic extraction of legacy content
- 69. Programmatic insertion into new CMS
- 70. Bulk updating of missing fields
- 72. Advantages
- 73. Limitations
- 74. Requirements
- 75. Concept Joomla
- 77. Very popular
- 78. Many free extensions available
- 79. Many inexpensive templates available
- 80. Relatively easy to use for website designers and users
- 81. Limitations Very rudimentary access and permissions*
- 82. SEO difficult to achieve*
- 84. HMTL output with tables
- 85. Most extensions not integrated
- 86. *) improved in upcoming version 1.6 (currently beta)
- 87. Requirements LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- 88. PHP ver. 5.2 for Joomla ver. 1.6
- 89. Shared Web Host file upload with FTP database configuration with web host control panel
- 90. Apache Webserver Interface apache2handler vs. cgi-fcgi check with php_sapi_name()
- 91. PHP Settings register_globals = off
- 92. Concept Database
- 93. Core Features Articles (content)
- 94. Menus
- 95. Categories*
- 96. Modules
- 97. Contact Form
- 98. Web Links
- 99. News Feeds
- 100. Polls
- 101. Banners
- 102. *) Joomla ver. 1.5 – section-category ver. 1.6 – multiple categories
- 103. Template Configuration templateDetails.xml files, positions, etc.
- 104. Layout index.php HTML with PHP snippets to insert content dynamically
- 105. Styling template.css CSS for layout and styling
- 106. Images round corners, shadows, background, logo
- 107. JavaScript adds dynamic elements, like sliding header images
- 108. Customizing Template layout modifications additional module positions changing colors, fonts, background, logo knowledge required: HTML, CSS
- 109. Styling add custom styles wherever possible override styling in own CSS knowledge required: HTML, CSS
- 110. Functional modifications must be reapplied after each update Joomla core should better not be modified knowledge required: PHP, MySQL, Joomla API, JavaScript
- 111. Search Engine Optimization Scope on-site vs. off-site SEO
- 112. Basic search engine friendly URLs title tag meta tags XML sitemap
- 113. Advanced headline tags duplicate content redirects multimedia content
- 114. Q & A Thomas Siegers Songfuli Co., Ltd. Taipei, Taiwan 松福禮股份有限公司 http://www.songfuli.com [email_address] http://www.slideshare.net/thomasjs