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Getting Help

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There are lots of places you can get help with Joomla!. In many places in your site administrator you will see the help icon. Click on this for more information about the options and functions of items on your screen. Other places to get help are:

Getting Started

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It's easy to get started creating your website. Knowing some of the basics will help.

What is a Content Management System?

A content management system is software that allows you to create and manage webpages easily by separating the creation of your content from the mechanics required to present it on the web.

In this site, the content is stored in a database. The look and feel are created by a template. The Joomla! software brings together the template and the content to create web pages.

Site and Administrator

Your site actually has two separate sites. The site (also called the front end) is what visitors to your site will see. The administrator (also called the back end) is only used by people managing your site. You can access the administrator by clicking the "Site Administrator" link on the "This Site" menu or by adding /administrator to the end of you domain name.

Logging in

To login to the front end of your site use the login form or the login menu link on the "This Site" menu. Use the user name and password that were created as part of the installation process. Once logged-in you will be able to create and edit articles.

In managing your site, you will be able to create content that only logged-in users are able to see.

Creating an article

Once you are logged-in, a new menu will be visible. To create a new article, click on the "submit article" link on that menu.

The new article interface gives you a lot of options, but all you need to do is add a title and put something in the content area. To make it easy to find, set the state to published and put it in the Joomla category.

You can edit an existing article by clicking on the edit icon (this only displays to users who have the right to edit).

Learn more

There is much more to learn about how to use Joomla! to create the web site you envision. You can learn much more at the Joomla! documentation site and on the Joomla! forums.

Options

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As you make your Joomla! site you will control the details of the display using options also referred to as parameters. Options control everything from whether the author's name is displayed to who can view what to the number of items shown on a list.

Default options for each component are changed using the Options button on the component toolbar.

Options can also be set on an individual item, such as an article or contact and in menu links.

If you are happy with how your site looks, it is fine to leave all of the options set to the defaults that were created when your site was installed. As you become more experienced with Joomla you will use options more.

Welcome to Agency For People Owned Processes

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APOP is a Non Government Organisation duly registered by the NGO Board. APOP aims at providing sustainable solutions to development challenges among the youth in Uganda, which has one of the fastest growing populations.

We strongly believe that community development has been influenced by the dramatic changes that are experienced in an increasingly globalized world economy and therefore accompanying these changes, are new ideas about how to approach community development.

In an increasingly dynamic world, there is a two-fold challenge at the community level: to create and seize opportunities for sustainable development, and to claim and retain the rights and entitlements of state and global citizenship. This means thinking about “assets’ in very broad terms: rights, capacities, capabilities as well as access to natural, physical and financial resources to generate sustainable wealth

APOP as an organization has a strong conviction that communities and local actors have inherent capacities, that need to be nurtured to bring about desired development. Communities can be empowered to diagnose local problems, come up with solutions, lay down priorities, implement action plans, monitor & evaluate their performances. APOP also believes that social and peer pressure creates accountability and transparency within a community. The government at different levels also acknowledges social accountability and transparency. It is important that communities and local governments develop skills through technical assistance, learning by doing and uplifting their knowledge for transformation. The decentralization of power to the local level is a good opportunity to harness the local capacity and ensure sustainability.

Considering the aforesaid facts, APOP strongly considers Capacity Development (CD) as its development philosophy. Therefore CD, in APOP context, refers to the development of institutional and human capacities of communities and local actors to improve their ability to carry out their functions and achieve desired results over time. APOP will use People-Owned-Process (PoP) methodology which is a development model that seeks to empower communities make maximum use of resources within their own setting and environment for self-reliance in development initiatives and processes. It is a zero-handout approach to development that calls for maximum participation of the beneficiaries (Target group).

Sample Sites

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Your installation includes sample data, designed to show you some of the options you have for building your website. In addition to information about Joomla! there are two sample "sites within a site" designed to help you get started with building your own site.

The first site is a simple site about Australian Parks. It shows how you can quickly and easily build a personal site with just the building blocks that are part of Joomla. It includes a personal blog, weblinks, and a very simple image gallery.

The second site is slightly more complex and represents what you might do if you are building a site for a small business, in this case a Fruit Shop.

In building either style site, or something completely different, you will probably want to add extensions and either create or purchase your own template. Many Joomla users start by modifying the templates that come with the core distribution so that they include special images and other design elements that relate to their site's focus.

Subcategories

Extensions

The Joomla! content management system lets you create webpages of various types using extensions. There are 5 basic types of extensions: components, modules, templates, languages, and plugins. Your website includes the extensions you need to create a basic website in English, but thousands of additional extensions of all types are available. The Joomla! Extensions Directory is the largest directory of Joomla extensions.
- Components
  
  Components are larger extensions that produce the major content for your site. Each component has one or more "views" that control how content is displayed. In the Joomla administrator there are additional extensions such as Menus, Redirection, and the extension managers.
- Modules
  
  Modules are small blocks of content that can be displayed in positions on a web page. The menus on this site are displayed in modules. The core of Joomla! includes 24 separate modules ranging from login to search to random images. Each module has a name that starts mod_ but when it displays it has a title. In the descriptions in this section, the titles are the same as the names.
  - Content Modules
    
    Content modules display article and other information from the content component.
  - User Modules
    
    User modules interact with the user system, allowing users to login, show who is logged-in, and showing the most recently registered users.
  - Display Modules
    
    These modules display information from components other than content and user. These include weblinks, news feeds and the media manager.
  - Utility Modules
    
    Utility modules provide useful functionality such as search, syndication and statistics.
  - Navigation Modules
    
    Navigation modules help your visitors move through your site and find what they need.
    
    Menus provide your site with structure and help your visitors navigate your site. Although they are all based on the same menu module, the variety of ways menus are used in the sample data show how flexible this module is.
    
    A menu can range from extremely simple (for example the top menu or the menu for the Australian Parks sample site) to extremely complex (for example the About Joomla! menu with its many levels). They can also be used for other types of presentation such as the site map linked from the "This Site" menu.
    
    Breadcrumbs provide users with information about where they are in a site.
- Templates
  
  Templates give your site its look and feel. They determine layout, colours, typefaces, graphics and other aspects of design that make your site unique. Your installation of Joomla comes prepackaged with three front end templates and two backend templates. Help
- Plugins
  
  Plugins are small task oriented extensions that enhance the Joomla! framework. Some are associated with particular extensions and others, such as editors, are used across all of Joomla. Most beginning users do not need to change any of the plugins that install with Joomla. Help