Sharing learning, Joomla basic Experience

Small knitting probably spent a few months of time to learn Joomla, first is the structure of Joomla, the original site can be like operating system to the architecture, through the installation of plug-ins or components of the way to function, the more learning like, gradually fascinated by Joomla. The process of learning also encountered a lot of problems, basically through their own practice or basically can be solved. Based on this, small series I want to learn in the process of my experience and share with you.

Experience One: understand the special terminology of Joomla "component" "Plugin" "Menu".

Because of the flexibility of Joomla's structure, it also led to the introduction of Joomla need to step over a threshold, that is, using Joomla's way of thinking to understand the site. Because our domestic CMS is mainly from the usability of development, the function is relatively fixed, so from the domestic CMS to the Joomla system will have a lot of discomfort and do not understand.

Components: Basic can be simply understood as functional modules

Plug-ins: Basic can be easily understood as data call

Menu: Joomla's menu differs greatly from our menu in general. In the Joomla menu in fact a function and navigation to achieve the link between the construction of Joomla site, in a sense, can be considered as a menu organization. For example, building several categories of article modules.

In the domestic CMS steps: Is in the background to establish categories, published articles, basically can see the front desk automatic classification and text summary.

The steps in Joomla are: Background to create a classification, published articles; then in the Joomla menu options to create a menu, and then in the menu column to connect the "components" provided by the text classification or the corresponding data link, confirm the location of the menu display, the front desk can see the menu and the corresponding text classification.

By contrast, we can see that Joomla's process of building a site is relatively complex, but this complexity can bring more flexibility, because the menu is not only can link article classification, he can link any components and plug-ins provide any features, settings can be a picture, can be HTML code ...

Experience Two: Build the local Joomla website platform for debugging and learning.

So the local build a Joomla platform to learn is very necessary, personal advice to recommend the development of http://apmserv.s135.com/this can be tested in Windows, simple, convenient, green and stable.

experience Three: Observe and modify a mature template of the library.

Any learning can not be separated from imitation, download a template you like, the general foreign templates with the corresponding components, plug-ins, menus 、...... Basically can use a mature template, then you can say that the introduction of Joomla you start.