Top Ten Things To Explain To Joomla Learners

Last night I did a presentation for the Joomla Users Group in New York, talking about Joomla SEO and teaching Joomla. As I'd never done a Skype presentation before I wanted to have a structure ready. Being a Big Apple talk, I decided to rip off David Letterman and do a top ten list:

Top Ten Things To Explain For People Learning Joomla

10) Padlocks

"Where'd that come from? I locked myself out of the article??"

9) Section / Categories

"Where's my article hiding? Remind me ... a category is bigger than a section?" This my favorite explanation for helping people visualise the setup.

8) Creating an article doesn't make a menu link automatically

"I've written an article, so why can't I see it on the frontend?" The problem is that almost every commercial CMS makes a menu link automatically when a new article is saved.

7) Read messages / Write messages

"Cool! I've got a private message system in the admin! But, wait ... I can only message myself?!?"

6) Save vs Apply

"Man, this is a pain to login and logout of the article everytime I want to make a small change"

5) Food and Fruit image folders

"Why I have got a strawberry, a bagel and some green peas in my images folder?"

4) Frontend user groups

"So "Registered" can write articles, and so can an Author ... an Editor can edit and so can an Author ... ??" Brian to the rescue again.

3) Archive

"I can put my article in a vault ... er ... why? where does it go again?"

2) Template changes don't destroy all content

"Aaarghh - I don't want to wreck all my articles by changing the template!"

1) Images/Stories folder

"I've uploaded all my images ... now why can't I use them in an article?"

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Your Comments (3)

Brian Teeman

February 13, 2009

Glad you found my blog helpful in your presentation. I'd be interested to hear how you explained the bagel or even better the "archive" image. I can remember selecting them in the now distant past

yanipan yaniv

February 15, 2009

Lol funny, I was reading this and laughing, with each line the memory of me with a shocked face pondering each one of those examples.. Especially when i saw an article was locked :D.
good one... and so true...

Marco Conti

February 17, 2009

Naturally, those things never happened to me. I am way too smart :)
But let me add an 11th item to the top 11 list:

Where are all my HTML files on my server? How come I cannot find "about-us.html"?