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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 link to point to a main category


Creating a menu link to point to a category requires the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu and click on New.

  2. The Menu Manager: New Menu Item screen opens. In the Menu Item Type section, select Articles | Category Blog.

  3. In the Choose a category drop-down list, select Activities.

  4. Enter a menu title (that is, Activities) and click on Save & Close.

    As you can see in the following screenshot, Activities now shows up as the last menu item in the Menu Item Manager. The order in which the menu items are presented here is the same order they'll be in the Main Menu on the website. If you would like to move the Activities link up in the Main Menu, just click on the three little blocks in the Ordering column to drag and drop any menu item to the desired position. (The Ordering column is the one on the left-hand side with two little blue triangles pointing up and down in the top row.) In this example, we'll leave the order unchanged...