1	Joomla!
2	What is Joomla? Joomla is a modular content management system (CMS) It enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Joomla is the most popular open source CMS currently available (200,000 registered users). With a minimal amount of instruction, you can be empowered to easily manage your own sites. Joomla is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free) are available. Joomla runs off PHP/MySQL JOOMLA IS AN ALLINCLUSIVE APPLICATION
3	What is a CMS? A computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. The content manager may include computer files, images, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. Allows for the ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types. The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content. The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content (search and retrieval). Designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files. Some help from wikipedia here J JOOMLA (CMS) IS AN APPLICATION
4	Extensions
5	Site Templates A template is basically the design of your Joomla! powered website. With a template you can change the look and feel of your website. Templates have certain fields in which components and modules will be shown. Templates are easy to build or customize and they provide maximum flexibility in how you style your site. There are many places that offer free templates (joomla24, siteground…). Downloaded templates can be customized. Admin head menu > “Extensions” > “Template Manager”
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7	Site Components A component is the largest and most complex extension of them all. They can be seen as mini-applications. There are two parts in a component, an administrator part and a site part. Every time a Joomla page loads, a component is called to render the main page body. Components are the major portion of your page because a component is driven by a menu item and every menu item runs a component. For example: com_content, com_registration Admin head menu > “Components”
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9	Site Modules Modules are more lightweight and flexible extensions used for page rendering. Sometimes modules are linked to components such as the “latest news” module which links to the com_content and displays links to the newest content items. These modules are mostly known as the “boxes” that are arranged around a component, for example: the login module. The footer is a module. Modules are assigned per menu item. So, you can decide to show or hide the logon module depending on which component (menu item) is used. Modules do not need to be linked to components, as a matter of fact they don't even need to be linked to anything and can be just static HTML or text. For example: mod_banners, mod_mainmenu Admin head menu > “Extensions” > “Module Manager”
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11	Site Plug-ins (Mambots) Plug-ins are more advanced extensions and are in essence event handlers. In the execution of any part of Joomla, be it the core, a module or a component, an event can be triggered. When an event is triggered, plug-ins that are registered with the application to handle that event execute. Plug-ins were also known as mambots. Example – Video code handler. For example: content.searchbot, tinymce Admin head menu > “Extensions” > “Plug-ins Manager”
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13	Content Management
14	Site Sections Highest Level of organization. Contains sub directories called “Categories”. Required – there must be a place to put content! Can be enabled or disabled as a whole. Can be linked to Menus
15	Site Categories Second Level of Organization Requires a Section assignment Contains “Site Content” or the actual page content that would normally be considered html files. Can be enabled or disabled as a whole. Can be linked to menus as a table or in blog format.
16	Site Content These are your pages. Must have a Section and Category. Stored in the database (not actual files). Can be linked to menus. Can be time stamped. Are specifically assigned. Public - open to all visitors to the web site. Registered - restricted to all seven Registered User Groups of the web site. Special - restricted to all User Groups except Guest and Registered.
17	Content Management
18	Content Example
19	Content Editors Control features for editing/user uploads. Can be assigned per user. Can be different in the front and back ends. Many different editors available.
20	Menu Manager Joomla allows for unlimited number of menus. Menus can link to anything on the site. Menus can link to external resources. Menus are linked to modules, and can be moved.