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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a face book using the Blog layout


Let's use the Blog layout to create a small face book, a collection of pages that present the CORBA team.

  1. For this purpose, create a new category named Who are CORBA? by navigating to Content | Category Manager | Add New Category. Under Details, select About Corba as its Parent Category and click on Save & close.

  2. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and create three new articles in the Who are CORBA? category in the About CORBA main category. In this example, we used the following titles: Ms. Daiping Suraba, Dr. T. Phaedratski, and Dr. A. Fienstein. Create articles with an intro text, a Read more link, and main article text (if you're unsure how this works, refer to Chapter 4, Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour).

  3. Now, let's create a category page. Set up a new menu link by navigating to Menus | Main Menu | Add New Menu Item. In the Menu Item Type field, select Category Blog under Articles.

  4. In the Details screen...