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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Eric Tiggeler Eric Tiggeler
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 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 A. Keeping the Site Secure B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – creating intro text


In the articles you created in earlier chapters, you saw it's good to add separate intro text to an article. Now you know why—if you don't, the article can only be displayed fully on overview pages such as the category overview you just saw. Let's fix things by adding some intro text to our new article.

  1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and open the article that you just created (Just What are Ugly Paintings?) to edit it.

  2. In the text editor screen, add a new first line. In this example, we entered The characteristics of truly bad art.

  3. Place the cursor just after this first line to indicate that you want Joomla to split the article here. To create a Read more link to point to the full article, click on the Read more button at the bottom of the editor screen. A red dotted line appears:

  4. Click on the Options tab and set Show Intro Text to Hide. This means the intro text (the short teaser text we just created) will be hidden when the full article is shown...

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