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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 – create a future-proof site map


Let's make some room for growth. Imagine that your client's planning to expand the site and add new content. They have come up with the following list of subjects they want to add to their site:

  • A few pages to introduce the founding members of CORBA

  • Facts on bad art: history, little known facts, and so on

  • Reviews of bad art, bad art galleries, and so on

  • Club activities other than lectures and meetings, such as art exhibitions

What's the best way to organize things? Let's figure out which content fits which type of container.

  1. The information on CORBA founders fits in a new category, About CORBA. This will be a category containing just a few articles: apart from an articleon CORBA founders, the existing uncategorized Mission Statement article can be moved here too.

  2. Up to now, we've created content groups that are just one level deep: categories holding articles. However, In Joomla, categories can hold as many other categories as you like. To organize...