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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

How many menus can you have?


On any Joomla website you can create as many menus as you want. The default sample site that you installed in Chapter 2, Installation: Getting Joomla Up and Running, is an example, as it contains no fewer than six menus. On the home page, four of them are shown—the User Menu (only displayed when a registered user has logged in to the site), the horizontal Top Menu, the About Joomla menu, and the Main Menu (titled This Site). In the following screenshot, you can see how the frontend menus are reflected in the administrative interface:

The Australian Parks menu and the Fruit Shop menu have been added to the sample data for demonstration purposes; they're only used on the Parks and Fruit Shop example site pages.

At least one menu is needed for Joomla to function properly—the menu containing the link to the home page. By default, that's the menu called Main Menu. The other ones are only there to showcase Joomla's menu possibilities. In real life, using this many...