User's Manual
Chapter 6: Accessing Functions from the Back-end: Manager
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 60 Version 1.0.1.
MediaManager
² Access: Select Site > Media Manager.
The Media Manager screen will be displayed.
Figure 43: Media Manager screen
This screen displays the entire images folder, i.e. www.yourdomainname.com/images. This is
useful to remember, as you need to select the correct sub-folder to upload images, which will be
available to your Content Items.
Normally, you will see the following sub-folders:
M_images, banners, smilies, and stories (used to store images for Content Items). In addition,
you will see a number of images in the images folder itself.
Some third party Components, e.g. Zoom Gallery, may create sub-folders in the images folder.
² Access: Click on a folder button or use the Directory drop down box to access a sub-folder.
Use the Up directory button to move up in the folder, sub-folder hierarchy.
Note: Images for use in Content Items are stored in the stories sub-folder. It is a good idea to
organise your images in a logical set of sub-folders. I remember one person putting
hundreds of images directly in the stories sub-folder. Not only did it take a long time to load
but also they had a never-ending quantity of images making it difficult to manage!
In this section we will look at:
Creatingafolder
Uploadinganimage
Deletinganimage
UsingtheImage/UrlCode