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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

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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!.
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Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
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Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

Chapter 7. Welcoming Your Visitors: Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages

In the previous chapters, you've laid the ground work for your site. First, you created content containers (sections and categories), then, you created actual content (articles). You've got a bunch of neatly organized, attractive articles ready to be explored by a worldwide web surfing audience. But how can you entice those casual web surfers to actually read all that valuable content? Why would they bother to drill down the content of your site?

That's where the home page and overview pages come in. The home page lures your visitors in; Joomla!'s overview pages—"second level home pages" that provide a quick overview of section and category contents—direct people to the articles they could be interested in.

In this chapter we will:

  • Customize the home page settings

  • Create a different kind of home page

  • Create and tweak section and category overview pages

  • Create different layouts for different types of overview...

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