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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 – creating a Contact Form menu link


Now that a contact exists you can add a link to a contact form to the main menu:

  1. Navigate to Menus | Top. We'll add the new link to the horizontal top menu.

  2. Click on New.

  3. In the Menu Item Type list, select Contacts | Single Contact.

  4. Click on the Select button next to the Select a Contact textbox to select the appropriate contact, CORBA Staff.

  5. Enter a Menu Title for the menu item (for example, Contact Us). Make sure Menu Location is set to the Top menu.

  6. Click the Advanced Options tab to access the Contact Display Options section. Choose Display format: Plain. Otherwise, the contact form will be displayed in separate (sliding or tabbed) panels—which is not what we want.

  7. Click on Save & Close. The site now has a Contact menu link that displays a contact form:

What just happened?

You have used the Contacts Component to create a contact and added a menu link to a contact form. Again you have experienced how powerful menu links are in Joomla. Just...