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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs.This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site.The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do—it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

Time for action—change a Blog Layout to a List Layout


To see the capabilities of the List Layout, let's convert a Blog Layout link you created previously to a List Layout, both targeting the Activities section.

  1. 1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu. Click on Activities to edit the menu item.

  2. 2. In the Menu Item [Edit] screen, click on the Change Type button:

  3. 3. In the Change Menu Item screen, select Internal Link | Section | Section Layout. A Section List shows no article contents; it just presents a list of categories as hyperlinks.

  4. 4. Click on Save. Done! Click on Preview to view the home page of your site; click on the Activities link.

What just happened?

With just a few clicks you have created a section page that displays a list of hyperlinks to categories instead of a series of teaser texts. Clicking on a category title reveals another intermediate page, a list of article titles.

In this example, the Activities menu link shows a Section List of two categories.

When the visitor clicks...