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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

Time for action – publishing your first article


Let's look at the steps required to publish your first article:

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager (alternatively you can use the Article Manager quick icon in the Control Panel).

  2. In the toolbar, click on the New button (the green one with the plus sign).

  3. Alternatively, you can use the fly-out menu Content | Article Manager | Add New article. This will take you to the Article Manager: Add New Article screen even faster.

  4. In the Article Manager: Add New Article screen, fill out the Title field as shown in the following screenshot. Enter a title (for example, My first article) and add some article text in the text editor box. Any text will do; for now we're just playing around in the example site.

  5. Leave the Category drop-down box as it is: it's okay to have this article assigned to the Sample Data-Articles category. You'll learn how to create categories and organize content in the next two chapters.

  6. Make sure Status (under Details) is set to Published...