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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exploring the frontend – the website as the user sees it


Let's first take a closer look at the elements of the default Joomla example site home page. This will give you a good overview of the different modules that Joomla features out of the box.

In the preceding screenshot, you see what the home page looks like after you've installed Joomla with the Learn Joomla sample data. As you can see, the example is focused on presenting quite a lot of information, the home page pulling the reader towards the content through intro texts and several menus. There's one main image, the header image that stays unchanged on all pages.

The previous screenshot of the home page shows the following elements:

  • (1) Search box: The search results are shown in the main content area

  • (2) Top menu: A menu at the top of the page

  • (3) Header image: Displays a selected image on one or more pages

  • (4) Mainbody of the home page: Contains introductory texts of selected articles

  • (5) Breadcrumbs: Shows the pathway to the current page...