You may not be aware of it, but you did actually do an incredible job. Your first Joomla website is up and running! You've built your site in three steps. First, you customized the layout, then you added a framework for content, and then you added further functionality to your site with modules.

You have personalized the look of the site by editing the template files. You can edit the template CSS files directly in the Template Manager editor screen.

Before you created content pages, you created the containers they belong in. These containers are called categories. You also added uncategorized articles—content pages that don't fit any category. You've seen that to make content visible on your site, there has to be a menu link that points to it. You've added items to the home page by changing their Featured settings. You've added an extra functionality to the site by using components and extensions. Using the Contacts component, you added contact details and a contact form.

In this chapter...