1. Creating library website using Joomla (Open Source-Content Management System): A case study on IIM Ahmedabad library website by Jignesh Amin Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library IIM Ahmedabad Viral Navik Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library IIM Ahmedabad 21 st to 23 rd March, CALIBER 2013

2. What is Joomla Joomla is a free, open source content management system Organizes all forms of content It helps you to create/edit/delete content in a shared database Content shared across the Web site Content can be published or not - based on conditions (Approved, Date range, Viewer rights) Easy to use and expandable

3. Joomla  Originated in 2000 as Mambo, Split in 2005 to form Joomla  The name Joomla is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole".  An award-winning content management system (CMS)  Open Source software  Available for Linux and Windows

4. Why Joomla?  Open Source  It’s Easy to Install, Use and Manage by non technical person and no need of HTML  Separation of Content and Form  Portable  Extendable  Strong Support Communities

5. Top Ten Open Source CMS 1.WordPress 2.Joomla 3.Drupal 4.Media Wiki 5.Plone 6.Liferay 7.TYPO3 8.Moodle 9.Dolphin 10.Pligg http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

6. Comparison Metrics A tool to compare up to 10 content management systems at once. http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrixhttp://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix Google Search Trend

7. In the Beginning Everybody used a text editor (coding language) to construct Web pages in a language called HTML If you know the HTML mark up language, you can control the content of your Web site. “The Webmaster” Problem! Must learn HTML or hire web developer. HTML is time consuming & Static Big Webmaster

8. Benefits of CMS  Creation of content in a standard format using a Web browser and WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What- You-Get) editor  Share the work with several staff members and have options to let the public enter content (Library 2.0)  Archive and reuse content BYE… FrontPage & DreamWeaver

9. What Joomla can do ? Some real examples  Corporate Web sites or portals  Online magazines, newspapers, and publications  E-commerce and online reservations  Government applications  Small business Web sites  Non-profit and organizational Web sites  Community-based portals  School Web sites  Personal or family homepages

10. Who are using Joomla ? (Live Example)  MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - http://www.quizilla.comhttp://www.quizilla.com  IHOP (Restaurant chain) - http://www.ihop.comhttp://www.ihop.com  Harvard University (Educational) - http://gsas.harvard.eduhttp://gsas.harvard.edu  Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible  The Green Maven (Eco-resources) - http://www.greenmaven.comhttp://www.greenmaven.com  Outdoor Photographer (Magazine) - http://www.outdoorphotographer.comhttp://www.outdoorphotographer.com  PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural) - http://www.playshakespeare.comhttp://www.playshakespeare.com  Senso Interiors (Furniture design) - http://www.sensointeriors.co.zahttp://www.sensointeriors.co.za &

12. Prerequisites to Install Joomla  PHP (Coding Language) 4.2.x or above: http://www.php.nethttp://www.php.net  MySQL (Database) 3.23.x or above: http://www.mysql.comhttp://www.mysql.com  Apache (Webserver) 1.13.19 or above: http://www.apache.orghttp://www.apache.org  Also available bundle (Package) like WAMP or XAMPP (for Windows) or LAMP (for Linux)  Download Joomla from http://www.joomla.org/download.html http://www.joomla.org/download.html

13. Basic Structure of Joomla Front-end ›Viewable by users Back-end ›Editable by administrator Database ›Stores information

14. Simple steps for Installation of Joomla  Simple – Download, Unzip, Install

15. Installation Screen 1

16. Screen 2

17. Screen 3

18. Final Installation Screen

20. Administration Module User Name Password

21. Main Admin Panel

22. Hierarchy of Module  Category Manager  Content Items Manager Content Static Content  Section Manager  Frontpage Manager  Archive Manager

23. Category Manager

24. Create a New Category

25. Section Manager

26. Create a New Section

27. Content Items Manager

28. Create a New Content

29. Static Content Manager

30. Create a New Static Content

31. Media Manager

32. Change the Template

33. Add New Template

34. Website for Joomla Templates http://www.joomla24.com/

35. Components

36. Add New Component

37. Website for Joomla Components http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions

38. Modules

39. Add New Modules

40. Website for Joomla Modules http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions

41. Lets start work with Joomla