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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
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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 – inserting and aligning images


Now, let's insert the images you've just uploaded into the article text:

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and open the article, Just What is Ugly Art? to edit it (by clicking on the article title).

  2. Let's place an image in each of the article paragraphs. Place the cursor at the beginning of the first paragraph below the introduction text, just after the first subheading:

  3. Click on the Image button at the bottom of the text editor screen:

  4. A pop-up screen opens displaying the contents of the images root directory. Select the appropriate subfolder by clicking on the paintings folder icon.

  5. Select the image you want to insert. Joomla automatically adds the path to the image in the Image URL field:

  6. Scroll down in the pop-up window to add the other relevant details as follows:

    • In the Image Description box, type a description. This text isn't displayed, but it informs search engines what the picture is about. It will also show up when the visitor uses...