What you should know about setting up your content
Part 1: Presented by Kendall Cabe
Planning
the Content Building a Content Hierarchy Displaying Content Content URLs – better known as SEF URLs • Core vs. Add-on SEF Components Alternatives
to the Core
• CCK’s in Joomla 1.5 – K2, Flexicontent, Zoo, etc. The
Future of Content – Joomla 1.6
Gather
content together
Determine Build
groupings for content
your sitemap
Plan
your content hierarchy
Plan
your navigational hierarchy
Content
Hierarchy in Joomla 1.5 consists of: • Sections • Categories • Articles
Section
= food-pantry Categories • Overview • Please-give • Need-help Other
articles are uncategorized articles
In
Joomla 1.5, you have several choices for content display: • • • • •
Section Blog View Section List View Category Blog View Category List View Article View
Can
be altered with HTML Overrides
Content
Hierarchy and Navigational Hierarchy plays into SEF URLs URL may contain section or category titles or aliases URL may contain menu alias URL may contain article title or alias URL may contain article ID number
Currently,
Joomla 1.5 has alternatives to the core content system: • K2 ( getk2.org ) • Flexicontent ( flexicontent.org ) • Zoo ( yootheme.com/zoo ) • Other CCKs available
In
Joomla 1.6, the content hierarchy will change: • Sections are gone • Categories are the main structure • Categories can have sub-categories at many
levels • Articles are assigned to a single category; No multi-category available
Joomla
Demo Content – demo15.timestwotechnology.com
www.bikethesites.com timestwo.times2technology.net Incident
Prevention (dev site)
Part 2: Presented by Karen Phelps
BEFORE
AFTER
Improve
Navigation Increase Site Traffic Social Network Sharing friendly Articles by Author, Category, Issue Ability to comment on articles Multi-category article assignment Easily search content
Incident Prevention -108 articles
2010 (6 issues/year) • • • • • •
January/February 2010 March/April 2010 May/June 2010 July/August 2010 September/October 2010 November/December 2010
2009 (6) 2008 (6) 2007 (6) 2006 (6) 2005 (6) 2004 (2)
Tailgate Topics - 41 articles
2010 (12 issues/year) • • • • •
November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 Etc…
Organize by Publication, Year, Issue K2 Tags / Faux “Multi-Category” Authors
Faux
Category creation using K2 Tags
• Safety Management, Worksite Safety, PPE,
Leadership Development, Equipment Operations, Grounding, Reader Profiles Enable
“Multi-Category” assignment by adding multiple tags to a K2 item EGD K2 Tag modules create blog / latest news view for 1or more faux categories K2 Tag view by Author, by Issue, by Publication
K2
Nested Categories Hierarchy
• Publication Year Magazine Issues
Incident-Prevention
6 issues/year. Each K2 Item is assigned to an issue. Issues typically include 3-5 items. Tailgate Topics 12 issues/year. Each K2 Item is assigned to an issue. Typically just one item per issue.
Each
K2 content item assigned to a single publication/issue category K2 Tags create Faux Categories for the K2 content items Able to assign multiple Faux Categories to each K2 content item