1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 I have just a couple more things to show you here to round out the Joomla! 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Essential Training Course, and one of those things is the offline mode for Joomla 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Web site. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Now that we have this live, and out there on the Web, it may be that you've put 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 this live just for your client to see, or maybe you are testing it to make sure 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 that it's working before you want it really live. 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 There's a number of reasons you might put a Web site out on the Internet, but not 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,000 necessarily want the public to see it just yet. 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 You might still want it to be hidden away. 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,000 And any one of those reasons is a great reason to use the offline mode inside of 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Joomla, so let me show you how that works. 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,000 In the back-end of Joomla, 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 we are going to go to the Global Configuration, which I can get to right here 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 off the control panel. 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And right now there is the option here of the Site Offline. 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,000 So if I want to take the site offline, all I need to do is click Yes, and say Save, 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,000 and when I refresh the front-end of the Web site, what I will see is this page, 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,000 which just says KinetECO, Inc. 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 This site is down for maintenance. 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Please check back again soon. 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,000 I'll have to enter my User Name and Password in order to see the front-end of this Web site. 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Incidentally, the ability to log in to the offline site box here is controlled 23 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,000 through some of the permissions associated with ACL. 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 By default, I believe only Super administrators are allowed to log in. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 So, let's try logging in what Joe's login, which we know works. 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 If I go ahead and click Log in here, notice that I am not allowed to log in to 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 the Web site. That's because Joe doesn't have the permissions to log in. 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,000 I only could log in with my Super administrator log in, and that will get me into the Web site. 29 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 There is a couple of things I can do to customize this screen. 30 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 It's quite plain, and you may wish to customize it a little bit, especially if 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 you are going to leave this up for a while. 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Maybe you would like to have the logo for the company up here, or something like that. 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Maybe you want to change the message from this site is down for maintenance to 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 this site is launching on a certain date, or something. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 So you can make those changes right here inside of the Global Configuration. 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 The Custom Message is this text right here. As you see it, says this site is 37 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,000 down for maintenance. 38 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Please check back again soon. 39 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,000 So we could change that to this site is down for maintenance, please check back 40 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:22,000 by 2 PM on Nov 1 for service. 41 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,000 And if we just say Save for that, that will change the text here on this page. 42 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 So that's nice to tell people when the site is going to be back up again, so that 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 they know exactly when to come back. So that is something you can customize. 44 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 The other thing you can customize is the Offline Image. 45 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:43,000 You can select that image here. You pick anything from your media manager, and 46 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 you can upload a picture to the media manager if you need to, and that will 47 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 become a picture that will display here on the offline site. 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 I am not going to go ahead and do this right now, but if you upload that, and 49 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 choose a picture, you will see that picture show up here on this page. 50 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 So, if you don't want your site in offline mode, though, it's very easy. 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,000 All you need to do is take the site out of offline mode, or put it online. 52 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:12,000 All you need to do is click the No button here, and say Save & Close, and when you 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 refresh the front-end of your Web site, you'll see that you get your Web site back, 54 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 without any special login required. 55 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,000 So you may find this a very helpful tool when you need to have your Web site up 56 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 and online in the real world. Great for developing with clients; you can give 57 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 your clients a login, so that they can log in to the site, and see how it's 58 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 progressing, even though they are distant from you. 59 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 So it's a great way of sharing the site while it's under construction, but you 60 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 don't want to be getting any traffic to it.