In the previous chapter, you've seen how you organize content with sections and categories. You create sections and categories in the backend; this way, you tell Joomla! how to group things. However, you will also want to present section and category contents on the frontend of the website in one way or another. That's where Joomla!'s section and category pages come in. They provide an intermediate level between the home page and content pages, presenting hyperlinks to section or category contents. They're a bit like 'second level home pages. Joomla! has no name for these pages; we'll call them overview pages or just section or category pages.
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You've already seen some basic examples of Joomla!'s overview page when you created menu links of the Section Blog Layout type to display sections (see Displaying sections and categories on your website in Chapter 5). Now, we'll go beyond the basics and make section and category pages that exactly fit...