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Quick Start

Discover Jahia 6.6 in 60 minutes

Introduction

This brief guide will provide you with the basic knowledge of how to install, run, and discover Jahia in 30-60 minutes. It will introduce you to the basic operations of Jahia such as creating, editing, moving and deleting content, as well as organizing the web site structure, adding interactive features and, publishing your work.

Created specifically to allow developers to extend, customize and integrate with other systems and platforms, Jahia has the ability to perform many additional tasks than are covered in this Quick Start Guide and may be customized to meet the exact needs of the customer. The functions provided by the default installation (CMS, a portal, DMS, and a publishing system) represent only a small part of what can be achieved with Jahia. We hope that this overview of Jahia 6.6 will provide you with an appreciation of its capabilities and entice you to further discover the product.

To fully appreciate the underlying capabilities of Jahia, please keep the following in mind: this Quick Start Guide focuses on a predefined set of templates (page structures), the built-in types of content, features, and layouts provided by Jahia to complete those pages. The templates and pages provided by Jahia are similar to a child’s wooden tray that has holes made to fit wooden pieces of various shapes. The content types and features of Jahia that you can drop in these pages are like those wooden pieces.

If you choose Jahia to manage your content, whether websites or professional web applications, you’ll be able to craft your own wooden trays and all the wooden cubes, circles, triangles or any other shapes you desire.

While writing this Quick Start Guide, we remembered the most common reactions we received when presenting the Alpha and Beta versions of Jahia 6.5, including the most common questions from users evaluating new software for the first time. We have created some simulated scenarios to provide you with simple answers to those questions. Although these scenarios may break the rhythm of the step-by-step demonstration, they will provide you with useful information that will offer a different and enhanced perspective than the basic operations that are described.