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.

5. CMS Basics

6. Deployment Options

7. Managing Content

8. Enhancements

9. User Management

10. Maintenance

11. Migrating

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

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

24. General : computer software system for managing content

26. allows users to create and manage content in a way similar to word processing

29. Web server recognizes dynamic request

30. Application software retrieves content from database

31. Application software constructs web page dynamically

34. Drupal

35. Typo3

36. phpNuke

37. XOOPS

38. Plone

39. … and many more

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

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

57. Mass mail

58. Newsletters

62. Minor releases

63. Extensions

65. Clone, backup – restore, move to a new site

67. Analysis of data model

68. Programmatic extraction of legacy content

69. Programmatic insertion into new CMS

70. Bulk updating of missing fields

71. Manual configuration

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

82. SEO difficult to achieve*

83. Fixed 2-stage categorization*

84. HMTL output with tables

85. Most extensions not integrated

86. *) improved in upcoming version 1.6 (currently beta)

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

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

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

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

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