Class 2

Class #2 Assignments are due on May 31, 2008, at 8 AM.

RULE #1 WHEN EDITING IN JOOMLA

DO NOT HIT THE BACK BUTTON. Always hit Save, Apply, or Cancel when editing in Joomla, or you will lock down items in your site.  (A padlock will appear by them.)

If this happens, make sure no one is logged in but you, then go to Tools - Global Checkin.

The lockout is a feature, not a bug. The idea is that if I'm editing a piece of content/section/category/menu item/module/anything, you can't also be editing it, because whose changes would win?  Every time you edit something, it's locked out until you save or cancel. Get into the habit of no back button now!!!

(By the way, it's fine using the back button on the front end, when you're just a site user. It's editing that causes problems.) 

Planning deliverables

  • Complete your Joomla! Site Plan and Progress Report

Joomla-specific deliverables

  • Complete inputting your site map into your Joomla! site
  • Start researching some extensions you may wish to include in your site
  • Start thinking about how you might like your site to look. You may want to make some sketches in Photoshop.

Discussion deliverables

  • Complete the two discussion questions in Moodle.
  • Register for Twitter, and give it a try!

Other items to complete

  • Start reading the books you have available to you.
1 Joomla! Site Plan and Progress Report
2 Jen's Project: Rebuild MCGC website, and here's the site map
3 Sections, Categories, Content, and Menus
 
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