The Template Manager Styles screen is new to Joomla 1.6. It allows you to manage template styles which you can then apply to your Joomla installation. You can specify the default style to be applied to web pages in the public and administrator interfaces. You can also configure different styles for the various menu item web pages on your site.
The Module Manager will display the screen where you could add and edit Joomla Modules such as Menu Module, Banner Module, Login Module and Breadcrumbs etc. In Joomla, Modules are used to display content and/or media around the main content.
A plugin is a kind of Joomla extension. Plugins provide functions which are associated with trigger events. Joomla provides a set of core plugin events, but any extension can fire (custom extensions) events.
Control Panel screen allows to joomla users to edit the functionality of Joomla Content Management System software. To access Control Panel in joomla, first of all login in Joomla Administrator Panel and go to Site -> Control Panel.
Joomla provides many default templates to apply in your website, but if you want to create your own template, you have to follow these two steps.
Extensions are add-ons that expand the functionality of Joomla Extensions are used to add capabilities to Joomla that do not exist in the standard package. That is Extension is a method through which we have to increase the functionality of Joomla Content Management System (CMS) software. Hundreds of Extensions are available for Joomla, with more being developed all of the time.
The Banner Manager is where you can edit existing banners and create new ones. You can also easily enable or disable banners from this screen. From this screen you can navigate to the banner categories manager, banner client’s manager and the banner tracks manager. You must add at least one banner client and banner category before you can add a banner.
Joomla Components is nothing more than an Extension (i.e. module, plugin etc) which having the ability to store significant quantities of data in the database.
The Media Manager is a very useful tool for uploading or deleting files in the images directory (i.e. Joomla web directory) on your web server. You can upload new files, delete existing ones, and create sub-directories. That is media manager is the main control screen for all the various images that can be used in content items and various menus, category, and section displays.
The Content Manager is the place in the back-end where you can add and manage all of the articles, category, featured article and media for your web site.
User Manager provides the ability to look at a list of your users and sort them in different ways. You can also edit and create users, user groups and access levels. Users play a very special role on Joomla websites. At the moment, you are the only user (admin or simple) that the Joomla administration knows. If you allow user registration on your site, there will be a registration form with help of which user can register in Joomla website.
The Mass Mail Component makes it possible for a Super Administrator to easily send an e-mail to all registered users or users in a particular group from within the Back-end of Joomla without having to start an external mail agent. It uses a completely basic text screen for the message to be entered into but this can be enhanced by using HTML code entered manually.
The Menu Manager controls how Joomla menus will look and act. The Menu Manager controls the framework, or container, of the menus in Joomla. The actual menu functionality and appearance of a menu is created automatically by Joomla by triggering a new instance of “mod_mainmenu” when a menu is first created.
Joomla is Content Management System (CMS) software, which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
Let's take a look at what you'll need to install JOOMLA in windows operating system using with WAMP server.