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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 – adding uncategorized articles


Let's create a Mission Statement page by adding an uncategorized article.

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager. Click on New.

  2. In the Title box, enter Mission Statement. In the Category drop-down box, make sure Uncategorised is selected.

  3. In the text editor area, add the Mission Statement text and add an image, if you like. For this example, we've entered the following text:

    We all know the works of great art throughout the centuries. But what about bad art? Much of the creative output of really lousy artists has been discarded, thrown away because of its lack of artistic value. Let's not let that happen any more!

    The beauty in ugliness

    Collectors Of Really Bad Art is a club for bad art lovers. We seek to find and promote the beauty that's hidden behind superficial ugliness. Tour our website to discover that beauty too!

  4. Click on Save & Close.

    The uncategorized article is finished—we just need a menu link to make it visible.

  5. Navigate to Menus | Main...