1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Now that we have Joomla! 2 00:00:01,001 --> 00:00:04,001 installed let's take a look at the back-end of Joomla! 3 00:00:04,002 --> 00:00:07,002 or the administrator side of Joomla!. 4 00:00:07,003 --> 00:00:11,003 We will need to login to see that and we will take a look at the interface and a 5 00:00:11,004 --> 00:00:14,004 little bit about the menus that are located in a back-end of Joomla!. 6 00:00:14,005 --> 00:00:22,005 So I am going to go to localhost/administrator. 7 00:00:22,006 --> 00:00:29,006 And if you're on a Mac you are going to go to localhost:8888/administrator. 8 00:00:29,007 --> 00:00:34,007 And if we go there you will see that we come to a login screen and we are going 9 00:00:34,008 --> 00:00:37,008 to login with the username and password that we established as part of 10 00:00:37,009 --> 00:00:44,009 installation and that was admin as our username and admin as our password and 11 00:00:44,010 --> 00:00:47,010 go ahead and log in. 12 00:00:47,011 --> 00:00:50,011 And this is Joomla!'s Control Panel this is where you'll land once you log into 13 00:00:50,012 --> 00:00:52,012 the back-end of Joomla!. 14 00:00:52,013 --> 00:00:54,013 And for those of you who have worked with Joomla! 15 00:00:54,014 --> 00:00:57,014 before you'll notice that this is radically different than what you used to 16 00:00:57,015 --> 00:00:59,015 see when you log into Joomla!. 17 00:00:59,016 --> 00:01:03,016 So on the right side of the screen we have a series of shortcuts, these are 18 00:01:03,017 --> 00:01:07,017 little icons that will take you to some of the most commonly used areas inside 19 00:01:07,018 --> 00:01:12,018 of Joomla!, including making articles, the article manager, the media manager at 20 00:01:12,019 --> 00:01:13,019 various configuration screens. 21 00:01:13,020 --> 00:01:19,020 On the left side of the screen you'll see that we have a number of system issues 22 00:01:19,021 --> 00:01:24,021 here where we can configure things in Global Configuration, clear out the cache; 23 00:01:24,022 --> 00:01:26,022 install new extensions for the Web site. 24 00:01:26,023 --> 00:01:30,023 All of this stuff we are going to be covering over the course of the next many, many videos. 25 00:01:30,024 --> 00:01:34,024 So let's take a look at the menus that go across the top of the page. 26 00:01:34,025 --> 00:01:40,025 So first of all if you click on the icon up here in the upper left-hand corner, 27 00:01:40,026 --> 00:01:45,026 this will open the front-end of the Web site in a new tab, so you can see the way 28 00:01:45,027 --> 00:01:46,027 your Web site is looking. 29 00:01:46,028 --> 00:01:47,028 Here in the back-end of Joomla! 30 00:01:47,029 --> 00:01:52,029 once again there are series of menus here with drop-downs and various pieces of 31 00:01:52,030 --> 00:01:54,030 information on each of these menus. 32 00:01:54,031 --> 00:01:58,031 The System menu is where you can go to come back to the Control Panel which is 33 00:01:58,032 --> 00:02:00,032 the screen that we are on right now. 34 00:02:00,033 --> 00:02:05,033 You can also configure things in the Global Configuration including the meta 35 00:02:05,034 --> 00:02:08,034 keywords in the meta description for the entire Web site. 36 00:02:08,035 --> 00:02:13,035 You can set up some text filtering for putting articles into the Web site, you 37 00:02:13,036 --> 00:02:15,036 can set up information concerning the database; 38 00:02:15,037 --> 00:02:18,037 there is a number of things that go on in Global Configuration. 39 00:02:18,038 --> 00:02:22,038 Global Check-in is a way you can check items into the Web site that might have 40 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:25,039 been checked out that were failed to have been checked in. 41 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,040 I'll go through that in a little bit more detail in a future video. 42 00:02:28,041 --> 00:02:30,041 We can clear the cache for the Joomla! 43 00:02:30,042 --> 00:02:34,042 Web site or purchase expired cache and one of the important screens that's here 44 00:02:34,043 --> 00:02:37,043 that you may windup using frequently is the System Information. 45 00:02:37,044 --> 00:02:42,044 If you click that link this will give you all of the critical information about 46 00:02:42,045 --> 00:02:45,045 the system that's currently running your Joomla! Web site. 47 00:02:45,046 --> 00:02:51,046 So notably it's going to tell you things like your database version and your PHP version. 48 00:02:51,047 --> 00:02:55,047 So these are things that are very important that you're going to need to know. 49 00:02:55,048 --> 00:02:57,048 It'll also tell you what version of Joomla! 50 00:02:57,049 --> 00:03:00,049 you're running because on the front-end of the Web site by default you don't see 51 00:03:00,050 --> 00:03:01,050 the version of Joomla! 52 00:03:01,051 --> 00:03:03,051 that you're running anymore. 53 00:03:03,052 --> 00:03:06,052 That is something that we can turn on and I will show you how to do that in 54 00:03:06,053 --> 00:03:10,053 a future video, but if that feature is not turned on inside the back-end of Joomla! 55 00:03:10,054 --> 00:03:15,054 you're going to have to come to this screen to find out what version of Joomla! you are running. 56 00:03:15,055 --> 00:03:18,055 So that is what the System Information is here for. 57 00:03:18,056 --> 00:03:22,056 So I am going to go back to the Control Panel by selecting Control Panel under 58 00:03:22,057 --> 00:03:24,057 System, so I am back to this screen. 59 00:03:24,058 --> 00:03:27,058 The Users menu item will give you lots of things you can look at for users 60 00:03:27,059 --> 00:03:32,059 including creating new users, assigning them password as well as all of the 61 00:03:32,060 --> 00:03:35,060 commands that you are going to need to configure ACL for the Web site. 62 00:03:35,061 --> 00:03:40,061 ACL is Access Control Lists and this is controlling who sees what and who can do 63 00:03:40,062 --> 00:03:42,062 what on the Web site. 64 00:03:42,063 --> 00:03:47,063 Mass Mail Users is an option that's here inside of Joomla!, it's kind of old, 65 00:03:47,064 --> 00:03:49,064 I really actually wish they'd take it out of Joomla! altogether. 66 00:03:49,065 --> 00:03:55,065 But the idea here is that you can send an e-mail only formatted in text format 67 00:03:55,066 --> 00:03:57,066 to people who are registered for the Joomla! Web site. 68 00:03:57,067 --> 00:04:02,067 The downside to this is, first of all it's only a text e-mail, you can't do any 69 00:04:02,068 --> 00:04:04,068 HTML formatting or anything exciting like that. 70 00:04:04,069 --> 00:04:09,069 And the other thing is of course that e-mail is coming from your Web server 71 00:04:09,070 --> 00:04:13,070 which may potentially mean that your Web server winds up getting blacklisted as 72 00:04:13,071 --> 00:04:16,071 a spam server that's sending a lot of spam. 73 00:04:16,072 --> 00:04:21,072 You're far better off using a true e-mail newsletter type of service, if that is 74 00:04:21,073 --> 00:04:23,073 the kind of thing that you want to do. 75 00:04:23,074 --> 00:04:28,074 Use something like Constant Contact or VerticalResponse or MailChimp or any one 76 00:04:28,075 --> 00:04:30,075 of a number of other services that are out there. 77 00:04:30,076 --> 00:04:34,076 They are designed to make sure that your e-mails are delivered, that you don't 78 00:04:34,077 --> 00:04:38,077 get blacklisted for spam, that they make it past all of the filters on AOL and 79 00:04:38,078 --> 00:04:41,078 Comcast and Gmail and all the rest of them. 80 00:04:41,079 --> 00:04:45,079 I would recommend just staying away from the Mass Mail Users functionality in 81 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,080 Joomla!, there's too many downsides to it. 82 00:04:47,081 --> 00:04:51,081 The Menus item is where you go to make new menus for your Web site as well as add 83 00:04:51,082 --> 00:04:53,082 items to existing menus. 84 00:04:53,083 --> 00:04:58,083 So right now we have a menu in the front of the Web site, it only has a home link 85 00:04:58,084 --> 00:05:01,084 on it, but this is where we go to add additional menu items. 86 00:05:01,085 --> 00:05:06,085 The Content menu is someplace we will spend a lot of time, this is where we add 87 00:05:06,086 --> 00:05:09,086 new pieces of content to the Web site including articles as well as we can manage 88 00:05:09,087 --> 00:05:12,087 our images in the Media Manager. 89 00:05:12,088 --> 00:05:17,088 Components are big functionalities that we add to Joomla!, they take up the 90 00:05:17,089 --> 00:05:18,089 entire screen when they display. 91 00:05:18,090 --> 00:05:24,090 So things like the Contact forms for the Web site are an example of that. 92 00:05:24,091 --> 00:05:28,091 This also contains some Administrator side components as well that will be 93 00:05:28,092 --> 00:05:31,092 useful to you like updating to the next version of Joomla! via the Joomla! 94 00:05:31,093 --> 00:05:35,093 update link or the redirect link which is a great piece of functionality that 95 00:05:35,094 --> 00:05:41,094 will allow you to direct old Web addresses to currently existing pages, 96 00:05:41,095 --> 00:05:44,095 it's very, very helpful functionality when you upgrade the Web site or your redesign 97 00:05:44,096 --> 00:05:49,096 the Web site from a static site or previous version of Joomla!. 98 00:05:49,097 --> 00:05:53,097 Under Extensions this is where we can manage some additional pieces of 99 00:05:53,098 --> 00:05:58,098 functionality, I will cover the Language Manager in the chapter on multilingual 100 00:05:58,099 --> 00:05:59,099 Web sites so your Joomla! site 101 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:02,000 can be presented in more than one language. 102 00:06:02,001 --> 00:06:04,001 We'll be working with ours in English and Italian. 103 00:06:04,002 --> 00:06:09,002 There's a Template Manager which changes the look of the Web site as well as 104 00:06:09,003 --> 00:06:13,003 modules and plug-ins which are two additional kinds of extensions and I'll walk 105 00:06:13,004 --> 00:06:15,004 you through all of that in other chapters. 106 00:06:15,005 --> 00:06:19,005 The Extension Manager is where you go to install extensions or 107 00:06:19,006 --> 00:06:21,006 uninstall extensions. 108 00:06:21,007 --> 00:06:24,007 Finally the Help menu contains lots of great resources for getting 109 00:06:24,008 --> 00:06:27,008 additional help with Joomla!. 110 00:06:27,009 --> 00:06:31,009 You can go to the Official Support Forum which is at forum.joomla.org which is 111 00:06:31,010 --> 00:06:35,010 where you can go and ask many questions about Joomla! and how it works. 112 00:06:35,011 --> 00:06:38,011 There's a documentation wiki where you can read about Joomla! 113 00:06:38,012 --> 00:06:39,012 and get additional help. 114 00:06:39,013 --> 00:06:43,013 And there are these additional links to other on property resources at 115 00:06:43,014 --> 00:06:45,014 joomla.org including the Joomla! 116 00:06:45,015 --> 00:06:48,015 Extensions directory which I'll cover in a future video. 117 00:06:48,016 --> 00:06:52,016 The place of Joomla Translations where you can go to download additional Joomla! 118 00:06:52,017 --> 00:06:54,017 translations so that Joomla! 119 00:06:54,018 --> 00:06:56,018 can run in a language other than English. 120 00:06:56,019 --> 00:07:00,019 The Joomla Resources directory where you can get recommendations for Web hosting 121 00:07:00,020 --> 00:07:04,020 or other firms and freelancers who can help you with Joomla! 122 00:07:04,021 --> 00:07:06,021 Web site development and training. 123 00:07:06,022 --> 00:07:10,022 The Community Portal which is a centralized location where you can learn about 124 00:07:10,023 --> 00:07:12,023 the latest what's going on with Joomla!. 125 00:07:12,024 --> 00:07:16,024 The Security Center where you get updates about what's happening with Joomla! 126 00:07:16,025 --> 00:07:18,025 from a security perspective. 127 00:07:18,026 --> 00:07:21,026 What you need to watch out for, for security holes, how you can improve the 128 00:07:21,027 --> 00:07:23,027 security of your Joomla! site. 129 00:07:23,028 --> 00:07:27,028 The Developer Resources location where you can find out about Joomla!'s roadmap 130 00:07:27,029 --> 00:07:30,029 and get involved with developing Joomla! 131 00:07:30,030 --> 00:07:34,030 and the Joomla Shop which is where you can go to buy T-shirts and hats and all 132 00:07:34,031 --> 00:07:36,031 kinds of other fun Joomla! paraphernalia. 133 00:07:36,032 --> 00:07:41,032 Over here on the very far right of the screen is a link for Super User. 134 00:07:41,033 --> 00:07:44,033 Here is where you can go to edit your account so you can change your username or 135 00:07:44,034 --> 00:07:48,034 your password or put in additional information about yourself and you can also 136 00:07:48,035 --> 00:07:50,035 log out of the Web site with this link. 137 00:07:50,036 --> 00:07:55,036 Down at the very bottom of the screen there is another link to view the Web site 138 00:07:55,037 --> 00:07:59,037 and if I click this it does exactly the same thing as clicking the KinetECO link 139 00:07:59,038 --> 00:08:01,038 up here in the upper right-hand corner. 140 00:08:01,039 --> 00:08:05,039 This will also tell us who's logged into the site in terms of visitors 141 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,040 and administrators. 142 00:08:06,041 --> 00:08:12,041 The little mail icon indicates anybody who might have sent you an e-mail within the Joomla! system. 143 00:08:12,042 --> 00:08:16,042 Again that's a feature that I don't generally use, don't recommend using. 144 00:08:16,043 --> 00:08:19,043 And then finally logging out of the Web site. 145 00:08:19,044 --> 00:08:24,044 So if you click on the Logout link, you of course will logout of the back-end of Joomla!. 146 00:08:24,045 --> 00:08:27,045 So that is a very quick tour through what's available in Joomla! 147 00:08:27,046 --> 00:08:32,046 what's available for interfaces, what's available for menu items and in all of 148 00:08:32,047 --> 00:08:37,047 the next many videos I will be going through exactly what all those menu items 149 00:08:37,048 --> 00:08:39,048 are and how they work.