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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

Summary


You may not be aware of it, but you did actually do an incredible job. Your first Joomla website is up and running!

  • You've built your site in three steps. First you customized the layout, then you added a framework for content, and then you added further functionality (such as a contact form) to your site.

  • You have personalized the look of the site by editing the template files. You can edit the template CSS files directly in the Template Manager editor screen.

  • Before you created content pages, you created the containers they belong in. These containers are called categories. You also added uncategorized articles: content pages that don't fit any category.

  • You've seen that, to make content visible on your site, there has to be a menu link pointing to it.

  • You've added items to the home page by changing their Featured setting.

  • You added extra functionality to the site by using components and extensions. Using the Contacts component you added contact details and a contact form.

In this chapter...