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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating an article


First, let's create an article in the News category:

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager | Add New Article. The Article Manager: Add New Article screen opens.

  2. In the Title box, type in the title of the article (in this example, Bad Photography Exhibition).

  3. In the Category drop-down box, select News. Now you see why you needed to create a category before adding articles. Without categories, you cannot assign any new article to the appropriate containers within your overall site structure.

  4. On the editor screen, write the article. In this example, we'll just use dummy text. It's easy to copy and paste any amount of fake text from www.lipsum.com.

  5. To divide the article text into an introduction text and the main article text, position the cursor at the beginning of the first line of the second paragraph. Click on the Read more button at the bottom of the editor screen. A red dotted line appears, which indicates the separation between the introduction text and...