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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 – telling Joomla where to display the menu


To actually get the new menu to show on the site, you have to create a menu module. The module is the functionality block that contains your menu and that's needed to be able to display menu contents. Let's tell Joomla where you want it to show:

  1. Go to Menus | Menu Manager to see all menus. Locate the About CORBA menu. Click on the Add a module for this menu type link, found in the Modules linked to the Menu column. (Actually this is a shortcut to the Module Manager—it saves you a few clicks navigating to to Extensions | Module Manager, clicking New and selecting Menu.)

  2. In the Module Manager: Module Menu screen, enter a title for the About CORBA menu. Select Position: Right [position-7]. This will make the new menu appear in the same column as the Main Menu.

  3. Click on Save and click on View site. There you are! A separate menu appears. The new About CORBA menu is displayed in the right-hand side column:

  4. You're almost there! We've got our...