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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 category and subcategories


We've seen that the CORBA site could do with some extra content containers. We've already outlined on paper what categories are needed, so let's add the first new category, About CORBA:

  1. Navigate to Content | Category Manager | Add New Category

  2. In the Category Manager: Add A New Articles Category screen, fill out the Title field. In this example, type About CORBA:

  3. Leave the other values unchanged; click on Save & Close. You're taken to the Category Manager list. The About CORBA category is now shown in the Category Manager list.

  4. According to our site map, the next few categories we need are nested: one main category (Bad Art) containing two subcategories (Facts and Reviews). To add them, in the Category Manager screen, click New.

  5. In the Category Manager: Add A New Articles Category screen, type Bad Art in the Title field.

  6. Click on Save & New. This button makes it easier to create a series of categories; in one go, the current category...