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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
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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 face book using the Blog layout


Let's use the Blog layout to create a small face book, a collection of pages that present the CORBA team.

  1. For this purpose, create a new category named Who are CORBA? by navigating to Content | Category Manager | Add New Category. Under Details, select About Corba as its Parent Category and click on Save & close.

  2. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and create three new articles in the Who are CORBA? category in the About CORBA main category. In this example, we used the following titles: Ms. Daiping Suraba, Dr. T. Phaedratski, and Dr. A. Fienstein. Create articles with an intro text, a Read more link, and main article text (if you're unsure how this works, refer to Chapter 4, Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour).

  3. Now, let's create a category page. Set up a new menu link by navigating to Menus | Main Menu | Add New Menu Item. In the Menu Item Type field, select Category Blog under Articles.

  4. In the Details screen...

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