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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
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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

Summary


In this chapter, you mastered creating article content.

To create new articles and edit existing ones, Article Manager is your starting point; just click on New to create a new article or select an article and click on Edit to edit it.

The article editing screen allows you to style your contents and add images. If you want more text editing control, you can set the text editor to show an extra (extended) set of buttons.

Media Manager allows you to create new image folders. This way, you can keep the image files on the web server organized.

There are several ways to display article content. It can be one continuous text page, but you can also split the article into an introductory text and the actual body text.

To break a long article into several interlinked subpages, you add page breaks to the article text. In the backend you've still got one article, in the frontend it will display as a series of pages.

Using Version Control, you can recover previous versions of articles. Every time...

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