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Admin menus reorganization from Joomla! 1.0.x to 1.5

In Joomla 1.0.x, we are used to quite a few top-level admin menu items. The Home item is just a button to get back to the welcome screen and has no sub-items, modules only has 2, mambots only one.. much space wasted!

In Joomla! 1.5, this has all been reorganized, which means many elements have been moved, some have been removed, so here's a little screenshot of some elements to make it easier for you to find your way around:
(Joomla 1.0 menus with red border, Joomla 1.5 menus with green border, in the center)

As you can see in just these two Joomla! 1.5 top-menu items, they now hold many items from other menus, some are completely gone, and the sub-menus for top-leveitems (such as for ex. "Site Modules" or "Admin Modules") are now found as conveniently accessible items on each individual Manager screen.

Things to note:

• the Installers menu is completely gone, thanks to the new universal installer: one size fits all!
  You don't need to worry anymore about what you want to install, just point to the .zip file and off you go!
  This item is now located under the new
• Extensions menu, which lets you un/ install any type of extension, and also groups the Managers for Modules, Plugins, Templates and Languages! which brings to me another new item:
• Mambots cease to exits, they shall henceforth be known as Plugins!

So the 1.5 Extensions Menu alone groups (elements of) 4 menus from 1.0!

The Site menu is much simpler also: from previously 8 items, it's now down to 5, of which the first is the "Home" link we had in 1.0 as simple item (now named "Control Panel" !) and Logout are simple buttons.

There's only 2 main managers (not content-related) left here: Users and Media, plus the (Global -word removed) Configuration.

From 11 top menu items in 1.0.x, we're down to 7 in 1.5, a third less!

Everything is neatly organized, cool sub-menus when needed:

You won't be long before getting used to the new layout!

Other things to note:

• the various Preview etc submenus from 1.0 Template Manager menu item are now a bit harder to locate:
• select the Template Manager from the Extensions menu;
  
• here, you can select from the submenu items either Site or Admin templates, and have direct access to Module positions;
• select now one of the templates (click the name) and you'll get access to the Preview option (and HTML / CSS editiing)
• Archive Manager doesn't exist anymore (as separate menu item), you can access archieved items from the Content menu => Article Manager!
• There's now TWO separate Trashs: one for menu items, one for articles! Both located in the relevant menus (Menus or Content).

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