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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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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 – adding a series of contacts

We'll create a contacts category, add contact details, and finally make a menu link to point to the new set of contacts.

  1. Navigate to Components | Contacts | Categories. If you installed Joomla using sample data, there may still be sample categories present. It's easy to remove them; select them all (make sure All is selected in the select box at the right-hand side above the contact listing) and click on the Trash button.
  2. Click on New to create a new contacts category. In the Title field, enter CORBA Staff. In the Description box, enter a short description that will be displayed above the contacts list. In this example, we've entered Are you interested in joining CORBA? Do you want to support us or organize bad art activities? Don't hesitate to contact our staff! Click on Save & Close. This is shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – adding a series of contacts
  3. Click on the Contacts link in the menu on the left-hand side and then click on New. Make...
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