Alabama R/C Racers

Welcome to the new Alabama R/C Racers website. Over the past few months a new site has been developed to make it more user friendly and with added features. A new content management system that will allow users to post articles, Calendar that will allow easy tracking of upcoming races, and a new gallery that will allow racers to post their race pics or videos. So take a look around. Register if you want to post or post away if you already registerd on the old site. This site is on going so suggestions are welcome. Enjoy the site and Welcome to Alabama R/C Racers. Let's make this the biggest R/C racing community in the hobby. Check out the FAQ's for more info about the site.

All users of the Alabama R/C Racers site will get "Author" permissions.  If higher leve permissions are requested, please contact us with your request and reasons for the need of the access.

Joomla controls access to certain areas and features of a site through use of a basic ACL, or Access Control Level mechanism called Groups.  Certain groups have certain access level features and they are directly related to the creation, editing and publishing of content (through the Frontend and Backend interfaces) as well as to access to the Administrative (Backend) interface.

Each group has different levels of access control and once a user is made a member of that group, they inherit those rights. Note that the 'Public Front-end' and 'Public Back-end' groups are merely placeholders at this point in time. They are not valid group selections at this time, but in the future, they will define the default access levels for anonymous users in the Front-end and Back-end systems.  The Joomla ACL is currently undergoing further development to allow greater control over aspects and access to the site.  Future ACL enhancements are outlined in the “Joomla Roadmap”, (among other future plans) and is available at http://www.joomla.org/content/view/14/28/.

There are four (4) Front-end groups available:

Registered - This group allows the user to login to the Frontend interface.  Registered users can't contribute content, but this may allow them access to other areas, like a forum or download section if your site has one.

Author - This group allows a user to post content, usually via a link in the User Menu. They can submit new content, select options to show the item on the front page and select dates for publishing but they cannot directly publish any content.  When content is submitted by an Author level user, they receive the message, “Thanks for your submission. Your submission will now be reviewed before being posted to the site.”  They can edit only their own articles but only when that article has been published and is visible.

Editor - This group allows a user to post and edit any (not just their own) content item from the Frontend. They can also edit content that has not been published.  If your site uses the default installation’s menu option “News”, which is a Table List – Content Section type, Editors will see unpublished articles in the list that they can select for editing, where as an Author or Public (unregistered) user will not even see the unpublished items in the list.  Still, Editor users cannot, publish or change the publishing status of any articles, even their own.

Publisher - This group allows a user to post, edit and publish any (not just their own) content item from the Front-end.  Publishers can review all articles, edit and change publishing options but the can also determine when an article is ready for publication, making it visible to Registered, Author and the Unregistered Public (depending on what visibility was chosen in the article, of course!)