Beginner's Guide

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Updates per mouse click
A simple feature. The system detects available updates and initiates them after a click on the
corresponding button.
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Templates
There have been many changes in the area of templates. There are now two administrator templates
and three website templates.
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Template styles
Sometimes you may want to display a template with different options. You may want to create a page
with a red background and another page with a blue one. Therefore, you will need template styles.
Create as many versions (styles) of a template with different settings as you like and assign them to a
menu link.
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Template layouts
Sometimes you may want to display only the output of a component or a module in a different layout
without hacking the template. That's possible with template layouts.
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Consistent user interface
A successful example is the general save dialogue.
Save: content will be saved, you remain in editing mode
Save & Close: content will be saved, you leave the editing mode
Save & New: content will be saved; a new, empty editing mask appears
Save as copy: content will be saved as a copy, you remain in the editing mask
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Minimum requirements
The minimum requirements regarding your server environment and concerning your visitors' web
browsers have increased.
Browser: Internet Explorer, version 7 or higher, Firefox, version 3 or higher, Safari, version 4 or higher
Server: PHP: minimum version PHP 5.2.4, MySQL: minimum version 5.04
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Legacy Mode
The legacy mode from Joomla 1.5 is no longer necessary. Legacy mode allowed the execution of
components originally developed for Joomla 1.0, which have 'only' been adapted to Joomla 1.5. The
procedure of adapting old components is offset by the development of 'native' Joomla 1.5 and 2.5
components, which use the Joomla Framework.
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Search engine optimization
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You can now use unicode in URLs, which means you may now use special characters like 'ö'
and 'ä' or Arabic or Hebrew characters in the URL.
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You can allocate meta text and keywords to categories.
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
Monday, 30 January 2012! Page 66