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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 a message block


To add a message block about the Ugly Art Exhibition on the home page, we'll add a new module of the Custom HTML type.

  1. Go to Extensions | Module Manager and click New to create a new module.

  2. In the Select a Module Type screen, select Custom HTML.

  3. Enter a Title: Visit the Bad Art Museum.

  4. In the Position drop-down list, scroll to find a list of available positions for the current template, Protostar. Select Right [position-7]. This will add the block to the right column of the current template. (You'll learn more about finding out what positions are available in Chapter 11, Creating an Attractive Design: Working with Templates.)

  5. Click on the Custom Output tab to enter any content the module block should contain. To insert an image, click on the Image button at the bottom of the editor. If you use the example files for this book, upload and insert the bam_logo.png image file.

  6. Add some text. In this example we're entering a short text: Get your tickets now...