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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 news archive


Let's create an archive for some old news pages on the CORBA site:

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager. In the Select Category filter box, select News to see only the articles in that category.

  2. Select the articles to be archived. In the following example, we've selected Bad Photography Exhibition.

  3. Click on the Archive button in the toolbar.

  4. A message appears to confirm the article has been archived. The article disappears from the article list. To see archived contents, select Archived in the Select Status drop-down list.

    You've created a (tiny) news archive now, but there's no way for the visitor to see its contents. Let's create a link:

  5. Navigate to Menus| Main Menu| Add New Menu Item. As the Menu Item Type for this link, select Articles |Archived Articles.

  6. Enter a Title for the hyperlink: News Archive. Adjust any other settings you want and click on Save.

On the frontend, a link to the Archive is shown. Right now, there's just one article; however, if...