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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

Step 2: Adding content


The customized template looks good, but the site's still empty. It's high time to actually populate it with some articles! In the previous chapter, you already created one simple article in the Joomla example site. However, when you create your own site you'll want to choose a more structured approach.

Creating a foundation first: Making categories

If you have experience in designing static websites, you've probably added new pages to the site in two steps. You start making a new HTML document—the page—and then added a link to that page, making sure your new content can be found.

In Joomla, you have to take a little preparatory action. Before you make new pages, it's common practice to first create containers for your content. These containers are called categories. You can create as many categories as you want. Categories hold articles. We won't go into the specifics just now, as we'll be exploring the ins and outs of of organizing content in the next chapter. For now...