In this chapter, you learned all about two types of pages that Joomla uses to draw visitors towards the actual content of your site: home pages and overview pages.

When you want to set the layout and arrangement of the home page contents, you can change the settings of the Main Menu Home link. The Home link uses the Featured Articles layout by default. When you want a completely different home page, you can choose not to use the Featured Articles layout. You can set any Main Menu item to be the default home page content.

To show the contents of a category, you can create menu links to category overview pages. These provide an intermediate level between the home page and content pages; they're like "second level home pages."

There are two main formats for overview pages: Category Blog and Category List. The Category Blog layout is more versatile and provides a taste of the article's content. Its purpose is to lure casual surfers. The Category List layout helps visitors quickly scan or...