User's Manual
Chapter 4: Accessing Functions from the Front-end
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 47 Version 1.0.1.
Note: Publishers may publish articles on Joomla! web sites. However, they do not have access to
the Administrator’s (Back-end) panel. The equivalent role to a Publisher, which allows
access to the Administrator’s (Back-end) panel, is the Manager. This is discussed later in
this user’s manual.
SubmitaWebLink
The web link is another form of content that a Joomla! web site uses.
Web links are simply links to other web sites of interest and all Registered users can submit them.
You access this function by clicking on the
Submit Web Link menu item in the User Menu.
As you can see from the picture below, when you click on the
Submit Web Link menu item a new
dialogue box appears that allows you to enter the Name, Section, URL, and Description of the
web link.
Figure 28: Submit a Web Link
You will notice that immediately after submitting a new Web Link that the system will return you to
the home page with a small -- often overlooked -- message thanking you for your submission and
confirming that it needs reviewing before being posted to the web site.
Figure 29: Submit Web Link thank you
There is an interesting caveat to the Submit Web Links function in a Joomla! web site. Web links
are not publishable from the Front-end of the Joomla! web site. This means that any web links
submitted, by any user from the Front-end, require a user with Back-end administrator privileges
to publish the web link before it becomes available on the site Front-end.
Note: Web links are the only type of content that a Registered user may submit!
After publication, a web link will be available from the Links section of the web site. In a default
Joomla! installation access is by the Links item on the Main Menu.
This will bring you to a page that displays the Category of links available. Picking one of the
categories will produce a page like the one below where we see our new link is now available for
use.