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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 text links


We'll create an internal hyperlink, a text link from one page to another page on the same site.

  1. Go to Content | Article Manager and open the article that you want to add a link to.

  2. Place the mouse cursor in the article text, on the position where you want to insert the hyperlink.

  3. Now click on the Article button at the bottom of the editor screen. A pop-up screen appears, listing all articles on the site. Click the title of the article you want to link to (in this example, Bad Art Exhibition Coming Up):

  4. The pop-up screen is closed. You're done! A link to the target article is inserted:

  5. Let's tweak the link text a little. By default, it consists of the target article title. To change this, you can edit the hyperlink text just as you would any other text in the article editor screen. However, if you want to replace the whole hyperlink text, it's easiest to switch to HTML code view. Otherwise, you could inadvertently remove the hyperlink by changing it to plain...