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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 – creating an article


First, let's create an article in the News category:

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager | Add New Article. The Article Manager: Add New Article screen opens.

  2. In the Title box, type the title of the article (in this example, Bad Photography Exhibition).

  3. In the Category drop-down box, select News. Now you see why you needed to create a category before. Without these you cannot assign any new article to the appropriate "containers" within your overall site structure.

  4. In the editor screen, write the article. In this example, we'll just use dummy text. It's easy to copy and paste any amount of fake paragraph text from www.lipsum.com.

  5. To divide the article text into an intro text and the main article text, position the cursor at the beginning of the first line below the first paragraph. Click on the Read more button at the bottom of the editor screen. A red dotted line appears indicating the separation between intro text and main article text.

  6. Finally, we'll...