Please log into your website control panel at http://www.yourdomain.com/administrator/ with the provided username/password before continuing. Note that the control panel is called the backend while http://www.yourdomain.com/ is called the frontend.

Content Management

How do I update or modify an existing page on the website?

First of all, go to the page (on the frontend) that you want to modify and look in the URL Address Bar and find the part where it says id equals number (i.e. id=20). Please remember this id number. Now back to the control panel (backend), and go to Content -> All Content Items, and look for the Title with the same id number and just click on it. You should be able to find the id number easily as it is under the ID column. If you still cannot find the id number please scroll down to the bottom and see if you can go to the next page. You can then use the provided HTML editor to edit the page and finally click Save on the top right.

How do I create a new page and add it to the website?

Go to Content -> All Content Items, click on New (top right), give it a Title (it will be shown on the website), Title Alias can be left blank, choose the Section and Category that you feel it's appropriate, add the contents you want using the provided HTML editor, and click on Save (top right). Please note the Section, Category, and Title of this page.

Now go to Menu -> mainmenu, click on New, bubble in Link - Content Item, click on Next, give it a Name, link to the correct page you created in the above paragraph (the format is Section - Category / Title). If you want this newly created page to be a subcategory or be under a certain category on the left menu of the website, then choose the appropriate Parent Item, otherwise leave it as Top. Finally, click on Save.

How do I publish or unpublish a page or category?

To publish or unpublish a page, go to Content -> All Content Items, and click on the blue icon that is on the same row as the page and under the Publish column. Now you should see a red X there. To have it published, simply just click on it again. This should be the same for category but instead you go to Menu -> mainmenu.

How do I create a link to an existing page?

First of all, on the website (frontend), click on the page that you want to have linked to, and then look in the URL Address Bar and then highlight and copy everything starting from index.php (i.e. http://yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=108 then you would copy "index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=108" part only)

Go to Content -> All Content Items, and click on the appropriate page that you want to create a link. To create a link, highlight the appropriate text within that page and then click on chain button (insert/edit link), and for Link URL simply paste whatever you copied in the paragraph above. Target is self explanation and for Title put what you want the users to see when they have their mouse pointers over the linked text.

How do I add or have a link to a document file or webpage on a page?

Go to Site -> Media Manager, and from there you can upload the file by clicking on Browse and choose the file and then click on Upload on the top right (make sure that the filename has no spaces, you can use underscores to replace the spaces). After it has been uploaded successfully, go to Content -> All Content Items, and click on the appropriate page that you want to create a link in. To create a link to a document file, highlight the appropriate text and then click on chain button (insert/edit link), and for Link URL put "images/stories/filename.ext" (without quotations, filename.ext depends on the file you just uploaded, for example, if you've just uploaded "prices.doc" then the Link URL would be images/stories/prices.doc), or if you just want a link to another page, then simply just put the full URL in it (i.e. http://www.yahoo.com/). Target and Title are self-explanatory. Click Insert and finally click Save once you are done with that page.

How do I add and display an image on a page?

Go to Site -> Media Manager, and from there you can upload the file by clicking on Browse and choose the file and then click on Upload on the top right (make sure that the filename has no spaces, you can use underscores to replace the spaces). After it has been uploaded successfully, go to Content -> All Content Items, and click on the appropriate page that you want to create a link in. To display the image on that page, highlight the appropriate text and then click on picture button (insert/edit image), and for Image URL put "images/stories/filename.ext" (without quotations, filename.ext depends on the file you just uploaded, for example, if you've just uploaded "Lisa.jpg" then the Image URL would be images/stories/Lisa.jpg). All the other fields are self-explanatory and optional. Click Insert and finally click Save once you are done with that page.

How do I add or edit some news to an existing news page?

First of all, on that news page and look in the URL Address Bar for sectionid=number&id=number, where the numbers represent the Section and Category, respectively. To check go the backend, Content -> Section Manager, and the sectionid=number is the number under Section ID column, now go to Category Manager, match the id=number with the one under Category ID.

Now that you know which Section and Category a news should belong to, you can just easily add more or edit existing news in Content -> All Content Items. Remember to choose the correct Section and Category when adding news.


Contact Management

How to add/delete/update a contact?

Go to Components -> Contacts -> Manage Contacts, check the box of the person that you would like to edit or delete and click on the appropriate button on the top right, otherwise click New to create a new contact. Then select the appropriate Category, leave Linked to User as No User, and fill in the rest as needed (note that Name field cannot be left blank).

How do I create a contact form on the website?

Go to Menu -> mainmenu, click on New, bubble in Link - Contact Item, click Next, for Name you can put something like "Contact Us" or "Email Us" or "Contact Name" then highlight the appropriate person (all messages submitted on the website will be sent to this person and he must already have an email set), all others like Parent Item are self explanatory, and simply click Save.

How do I know which page on the website (frontend) uses the Contacts component?

Look in the URL Address Bar for the part where it says option=com_contact.

If a page uses the Contacts component how do I modify the contact information?

First of all, look in the URL Address Bar and note the part where it says contact_id=number (i.e. contact_id=1).

Go to Components -> Contacts -> Manage Contacts, match the number above with the number on the left # column, and simply click on that person to modify his/her information, and finally click on Save.


User Management

What if I want to restrict access on certain page(s) to Registered or Approved Users only?

Go to Menu -> mainmenu, find the page that you want to modify the access level, and on the same row under the Access column, click on the green word "Public" until it changes to "Registered" in red. Now only Registered Users can access that page on your website.

How do I add a Registered User?

Go to Site -> User Manager, click on New, click on Registered for Group (it should now be highlighted), fill out the rest, and finally click on Save.

How do Registered Users "log in" on the website?

First, check if your website homepage has a place where the users can log in (usually with two text fields "username" and "password"). If you cannot find it, then it has to be enabled in the control panel in order for Registered Users to log in. To enable the login form, go to Modules -> Site Modules, look for "Login Form" and make sure that it is published (if it is not published, then you will be a red X under the Published column, simply click on the red X to have it published).

Please note that once the Login Form has been published, anyone that visits your website can register himself or herself. To change this behavior, please go to Site -> Global Configuration, go to first tab "Site" and for "Allow User Registration:" just bubble No, and simply click Save.

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Trung Lam
Chief Software Programmer
Above The Limit, Inc.