1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 The site is now live, and you've got your check. You're all paid and everything. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 What more is there? 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Well, did you train your client to make their own changes to the Web site? 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 This isn't really hard to do, and it will save your time later. 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,000 You can set your clients up to make changes to the front-end of the Web site only, 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 which is really great, because it's a very friendly environment to edit from the 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,000 front-end of the Web site. 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Let's show you how that works right now. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,000 So, if we scroll on down the page here on the front-end of the Web site, and I go 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 to my Login link here, and I'm going to log in with my Super User login name and 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Password, and what you're going to see is -- of course, I'm winding up on the 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 distributor page, because that's where I've redirected this page to. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 You're going to notice this little gear icon that shows up here inside of this template. 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000 And when I click that, there is the option here to Edit this particular article. 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 And if I click on that Edit, this will, in fact, put me into an 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 editing environment. 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 As you can see here, I have a Save button, I have my editor is available, 18 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 I can make changes to the text here, I can make changes to the ability to 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 publish or unpublish that, 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,000 the Access, and so forth, 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 what Language this is offered in, and any Meta Description or Keywords that I 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 want to include for this particular article. 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 All of this I can edit right here from the front-end of the Web site. 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 So, this is really convenient for your clients, because what they can do -- I'm just 25 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 going to hit Cancel here real quick. 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 What your client can do is they can surf to some page or another, they can 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:32,000 say, oh yeah, we have to update this biography. They go to the Edit button, and 28 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 they are jumped right into editing here, and they can go ahead and make whatever 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 changes they want to make to this particular article. It's great! 30 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,000 So I would encourage you to take the time to sit down with your client, and show 31 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,000 them how editing works, and what the JCE editor is like, and how they can edit. 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Reassure your client that just because they have logged into the Web site, and 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,000 they can now see these little gear icons here, they may be worried that they can 34 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 edit, or that anybody who's logged in to the Web site can edit any of the articles 35 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 that are here on the Web site. 36 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,000 That's a very legitimate concern. 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 If I log out as a Super User, and down here at the bottom of the screen, I go 38 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 log in again as joe, 123456, 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,000 notice that I don't have that gear icon over here as I go about, and I visit these pages. 40 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I don't have the ability to edit these pages on the Web site. 41 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 That's because Joe is just a Registered user, and Registered users don't have 42 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 permission to edit things on the Web site. 43 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 So you can set your clients up at some level. 44 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 You might set them up as an Editor, which would allow them to edit any of the 45 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 content on the Web site from the front-end, or you could set them up as a 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Publisher, which would also allow them to publish and unpublish content from the 47 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 front-end of the Web site. 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Unfortunately, Joomla's front-end editing capability does not give you the 49 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,000 capability of linking a new article up to a menu. Unfortunately. 50 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 You can't do that from the front-end of the Web site. 51 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 What you'd have to do at that point is give your client a back-end login. 52 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 If you decide to go that route, I would encourage you to watch my lynda.com video 53 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 on ACL; Access Control Lists. 54 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I will walk you through the process of creating a customized environment 55 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 for your client to log in to, so that they can only have access to the items 56 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 that they need to edit. 57 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Usually that's something like the Article manager, the Category manager, the 58 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Media manager, as well as the menuing capability. 59 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And they don't necessarily get access to the components, or to the modules, or 60 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 the templates for sure. 61 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 So that is one way that you can handle editing for your clients, either here on 62 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,000 the front-end, which is very friendly, or if they have to have the ability to 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 link things up to menus, you can always give them editing access on the 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 back-end of the Web site. 65 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Just be sure to strip down that interface to give them the minimum number of 66 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000 tools, and the minimum amount of confusion to maintain their Web site.