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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from  Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783981502
Pages 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Eric Tiggeler Eric Tiggeler
Profile icon Eric Tiggeler

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques Keeping the Site Secure Creating a Multilingual Site Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – creating a future-proof site map


Let's make some room for growth. Imagine your client is planning to expand the site and add new content. They have come up with the following list of subjects they want to add to their site:

  • A few pages to introduce the founding members of CORBA

  • Facts on bad art, such as history, techniques, and so on

  • Reviews of bad art, bad art galleries, and so on

  • General information on club activities other than lectures and meetings

What's the best way to organize things? Let's figure out which content fits which type of container:

  1. The information on CORBA founders fits in a new category, About CORBA. This will be a category containing just a few articles. Apart from an article on CORBA founders, the existing uncategorized Mission Statement article can be moved in this category too. The new outline of the site is shown in the following diagram:

  2. Up to now, we created content groups that are just one-level deep—categories that hold articles. However, Joomla categories...

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