User's Manual

Version 0.01 5/15/2006
content are also available to publishers. Publishers may author their own content, edit the
content of other authors or editors and cause articles to be published on the web site.
The most noticeable difference that a publisher will see when logging in to the web site is the
additions of a new field in the publishing tab when authoring new content or editing existing
content. This new field is called ‘State:’ and it allows the Publishers to publish articles without
having to have access to the site’s administrator panel.
The selection list available for this field has just two choices, Published and Unpublished. When
published the article will be viewable on the web site between the times and dates specified
by the Start Publishing and Finishing Publishing fields.
Note: publishers may publish articles on Joomla web sites that have no access to the backend
administrator’s panel. There is an equivalent role to a publisher that may be assigned to a
user, which allows them access to the administrator’s panel as well as being able to fulfill the
roles of the publisher in the public friend of the web site. This role is known as a Manager and
will be discussed a later on in this users guide.
Submitting Weblinks
Another form of content that may be submitted in a Joomla web site is the Web link. Web links
are simply links to other sites of interest and may be submitted by all registered user is of a
Joomla web site. You access this functionality by clicking on the Submit Web-Link menu item
in the user menu.