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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs.This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site.The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do—it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

Time for action—create an article


First, let's create an article in the Lectures category:

  1. 1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager. Click on New. The Article: [New] screen opens.

  2. 2. In the Title box, type the title of the article (in this example Bad Abstract Paintings). You can leave the Alias field blank.

  3. 3. In the Section drop-down box, select Activities. In the Category drop-down box, select Lectures. Now you see why you needed to create a section and a category before. Without these you cannot assign the article to the appropriate "containers" within in your overall site structure.

  4. 4. In the editor screen, write the article. In this example, we'll just use dummy text. It's quite easy to copy and paste any amount of fake paragraph text from www.lipsum.com.

  5. 5. To divide the article text into an intro text and the main article text, position the cursor in the first line below the first paragraph. Click on the Read more… button at the bottom of the editor screen. A red dotted line appears...