Joomla Statistics & Templates

Website Templates in Joomla Content Management System

Statistics & Joomla Web Site Templates

Figure 4.30: Preview

You have three options:

In New Window: The preview is displayed in a new browser window.
Inline: The preview is shown in the workspace, with scroll bars on the sides, if the page is too large to fit on the monitor.
Inline with Positions: The preview is shown in the workspace, with markings for the individual module positions.

Statistics

Figure 4.31: Statistics

Browser, OS, Domain: In this area you get three tabs with information as to which browser, operating system, and domain has visited your site. This is based on the data that a browser supplies automatically to the web server. However, if any spiderfor example, Googlevisits your site with a program to incorporate your pages in its index, no information is retained.
Page Impressions: Here you can see the individual pages, their creation date, and the number of hits.
Search Text: The search words entered by your visitors are tracked here.

Template Manager

Figure 4.32: Template Manager

Site Templates
Here you can set up the joomla templates for your site.

Default: Pick a template and click the Default icon to use it as the default template for your site.
Assign: Select a joomla template and click on assign to apply it to individual pages:

Figure 4.33: Assign

The existing menu elements are indicated to you. Mark the appropriate elements that you want to which to apply the template. You can choose more than one by holding down the Control key while clicking on all desired elements one after the other.

New: You install a new template here. There is a large selection of existing templates (http://www.mambohut.com/), which you can install either by means of an upload or via installation from a directory.

Edit HTML/Edit CSS: Here you can work directly on the HTML or CSS source code of the selected joomla template (as shown in Figure 4.34). I'm sure that seeing how a template is developed is interesting even for the beginner. Templates always consist of an HTML and a CSS file:

Figure 4.34: HTML Editor

If you get involved in this, you have to know what you are doing. Knowledge of HTML and CSS is essential.

Delete: Here you can completely delete an installed template.

Install
This is the installation mask for site templates. You wind up here if you click New in site templates or if you come directly from the Site | Templates Manager | Install menu. You can install new template file packages by uploading or by doing a directory installation.

Administrator Templates
What applies to your site, naturally also applies to the administration interface. You can assign other templates and install new ones, just as with the site templates of your non-administration interface. Currently Joomla! has only one administrator template that you can use.

Install

Just as with the normal websites templates, you can also install administrator templates. You wind up here if you click New in administrator templates or if you come directly from the Site | Templates | Install menu. New template file packages can be installed by uploading or by a directory installation.

Module Positions
Here the display positions of the modules of a template are administered. You can define up to 56 different positions - a web developer will be able to do this. You can display module content in these positions (also refer the Module Menu section in Chapter 6).

Trash Manager
The Trash Manager contains your garbage bin. It collects content and menu elements that you have disposed of by clicking on the trash icon, and files it under two tabs, Content Items and Menu Items. You can retrieve items from the trash by selecting the element and clicking Restore; if you click Delete, it is irretrievably deleted.