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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – adding a series of contacts


We'll create a contacts category, add contact details, and finally make a menu link to point to the new set of contacts.

  1. Navigate to Components | Contacts | Categories. If you installed Joomla using sample data, there may still be sample categories present. It's easy to remove them: select them all (make sure All is selected in the drop-down box on the right-hand side above the contact listing) and click on Trash.

  2. Click on New to create a new contacts category. In the Title field, enter CORBA Staff. In the Description box, enter a short description that will be displayed above the contacts list. In this example, we've entered Are you interested in joining CORBA? Do you want to support us or organize bad art activities? Don't hesitate to contact our staff!. Click on Save & Close.

  3. Click on the Contacts link in the menu on the left-hand side and click on New. Enter the details for a new contact. In this example, we've entered in the Name field...