Features Of Joomla CMS – Creating and Customising Menus, Creating Sections and Categories, Banner Manager and Site Statistics

   The first part deals with a brief Summary of Joomla Content Management System, Control Panel, WYSIWYG Editor, adding Meta Tags for each page and Creating Links to appropriate menus. Here, in the second part, I will describe few more features of Joomla Content Management System.

Creating Unlimited Menus

   Joomla Content Management system provides the facility of creating as many menus as required. Further you can also specify on which page a particular menu should be displayed. You can create a new menu by clicking on Menu manager under Menu or by directly clicking on Menu Manager on the Control Panel.When the Menu Manager is displayed, Click on New. On the displayed page enter the name of the new menu as shown below and click Save.

After the menu is created Click on Site Modules under Modules. When the Module Manager is displayed click on the menu name. You can now choose the pages where you want this menu to be displayed as well as make a host of other settings.

Ordering Menu Items In Joomla

   There are two ways to order the menu items in Joomla.One is to use the blue arrows and move up or down one place at a time and the second way is to enter the order number for all items and press the floppy symbol. In this case the new order will be saved immediately and the full task will be accomplished in one step.

Category Managers

   Joomla allows us to create unlimited categories. Under each category we can have as many sub categories that we want.

Banner Manager

   You can manage banners from the banner manager. Here you can set the impressions for each banner and find out the impressions made as well as the impressions remaining for each banner. Details of banner and client management are given in Advertisement Banner Management in Joomla.

Site Statistics

   Basic Site statistics is also provided in the form of hits to the website (Total Page Views). In case you wish to display this you can activate the statistics extension.

Changing Site Configuration

   The global settings in Joomla can be done in Global Configurations where a large number of default settings can be specified. However you can override them by specifying settings for each individual page.

Other Customizations For Joomla

   There are several other customizations that can be done Joomla. One such customisation is the removal of the site name from the page title. Another customization is to remove the option to search using a search engine instead of the Joomla search facility which searches only within your site. The customisations are described in the section Customising Titles And Search In Joomla Content Management System.