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...