In this chapter, you learned what's special about building websites with Joomla, what the frontend of your site can look like, and how to use the backend control panel.

You've seen what the differences are between static websites and websites built the Joomla way. A Joomla-powered website is a collection of building blocks that are dynamically constructed from the database.

The frontend of the website—the site as your visitor experiences it—is constructed out of different building blocks. The central part of the page is called the main body; the surrounding blocks are called modules.

Joomla offers a great number of options to present information in the central content area, the main body. Moreover, you can combine the main body with almost any combination and number of modules in the header, in the footer, in the left-hand side column, and the right-hand side column.

Every Joomla site has a backend, Control Panel, to administer your site. When you log into the backend, you can manage...