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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 intro text


In the articles you created in earlier chapters, you've already seen it's good to add a separate intro text to an article. Now you know why—if you don't, the article can only be displayed fully on overview pages such as the category overview you just saw. Let's fix things by adding an intro text to our new article:

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and open the article that you just created (Just What is Ugly Art?) to edit it.

  2. In the text editor screen, add a new first line. In this example, we've entered The Characteristics of Truly Bad Art.

  3. Place the cursor just after this first line to indicate that you want Joomla to split the article here, and create a Read more link to point to the full article, click on the Read more button at the bottom of the editor screen. A red dotted line appears:

  4. In the Article Options panel, set Show Intro Text to Hide. This means the intro text (the short teaser text we just created) will be hidden when the full article...