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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 – deleting menus


Because much of the example menus are redundant for our goal, we'll delete them. Not to worry—you can always create new menus. We'll just delete the specific instances of the menus that were used in the example site.

  1. Go to Menus | Menu Manager. Select three example menus you won't be needing any more, namely About Joomla, Australian Parks, and Fruit Shop. Do not select Main Menu, Top, and User Menu. We'll keep these three more generic menus because we can re-use them in our new site.

  2. Click on the Delete button. A warning message appears; click OK to confirm you want to delete the menus and their contents and associated menu modules. You'll see a confirmation message and have just three menus left in the Menu Manager screen:

    Although we'll keep the Main Menu, we don't need the redundant links it contains (to content that has just been deleted). The only link we need to keep is the Home link, as it's necessary for any Joomla site to function properly. You'll...