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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned a lot about creating user-friendly navigation through Joomla menus. This is what we covered:

  • New menu links are added to the bottom of the list. To change a menu item's order, you move links up or down in the Menu Item Manager.

  • Menus can be more than one level deep. By assigning a parent item to a menu link, you create a submenu item.

  • You can move links that don't fit the main menu to a separate menu. You can also create interrelated menus, such as a main menu showing parent links and a secondary menu that automatically shows child links.

  • Submenus aren't the only way to make secondary content visible. Main links can point to overview pages with (automatically generated) links to category content.

  • To create hyperlinks in an article to another article, use the Article button in the editor screen.

You've now finished making a basic, functional, and easy-to-navigate website.

In the next chapters, we'll take things further—after all, dynamic database-driven CMS magic...