Where can I get more help?
For the definitive documentation please visit http://docs.joomla.org/Administrators
Managing the Website
- taking the website temporarily offline
- changing the appearance of your site
- giving the Front Page a different style from other pages
- changing the style according to article section or category
- logging in or out of the Administrator back-end
- making your site Search Engine Friendly
- entering search engine meta-data
- moving the site among directories/sub-directories
Managing Users
- setting user registration policy
- customising the Login Form module
- adding a new user
- changing user groups
- resetting a user password
- listing a user on a contacts page
- dealing with a problem user
- sending an email to a user
- sending an email to a group of users
- sending a private message to a user
- reading a private message from a user
Managing Content
- understanding sections, categories and articles
- creating a section and category hierarchy
- scheduling an Article to be available only between certain dates
- restricting access to an Article
- restricting access to "read more"
- restricting access to a Section
- restricting access to a Category
- removing email, print or PDF icons from all Articles
- removing author name, creation date or update date from all Articles
- moving an Article to the archive
- deleting an Article
Managing Articles
- adding a new article
- adding an image to an article
- adding a menu item which points to an Article
- managing the front page
JCE Editor
Editing an Article
- inserting a heading into an Article
- inserting a list into an Article
- inserting a table into an Article
- modifying a table in an Article
- inserting a link to another Article or content page into an Article
- inserting a link to another website into an Article
- removing a link from an Article
- splitting an Article into an introduction with a link to read more
- removing email, print or PDF icons from an Article
- removing author name, creation date or update date from an Article
- previewing an Article
- splitting a long Article into multiple linked pages
Managing Menus
- adding a new menu
- adding a new menu item
- changing the order of items in a menu
- moving a menu to a different position
- restricting access to a Menu
- restricting access to a Menu Item
- creating a submenu
Managing Contacts
Managing Newsfeeds
Managing Polls
Managing Web Links
Managing Extensions
- finding an extension
- installing an extension
- uninstalling an extension
- reinstalling deleted core extensions for Joomla 1.5
- restricting access to a Module
- restricting access to a Plugin
Tips, tricks and performance
- Speed up your site with caching: Cache