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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

Chapter 7. Welcoming your Visitors: Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages

In the previous chapters, you've laid the groundwork for your site. First, you created content containers (categories and subcategories), then you created the actual content (articles). You've now got a bunch of neatly organized, attractive articles ready to be explored by a World Wide Web surfing audience. But how can you entice those casual web surfers to actually read all that valuable content? Why would they bother to drill down to the content of your site?

That's where the home page and overview pages come in. The home page lures your visitors in. Joomla's overview pages—"second-level home pages" that provide a quick overview of category contents—direct people to the articles they could be interested in.

In this chapter we will:

  • Customize the home page settings

  • Create a different kind of home page

  • Create and tweak category overview pages

  • Create different layouts for different types of overview pages

So, let...