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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 FREE CHAPTER 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 A. Keeping the Site Secure B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – adding a menu link


Let's finish the three steps of content creation and add a link to your article.

  1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu | Add New Menu Item. The Menu Manager: New Menu Item screen opens.

  2. Next to the Menu Item Type box, click on the Select button and go to Articles | Category Blog. This menu link type tells Joomla to display a page that contains introduction text and Read more hyperlinks to all the content from a specific category. You'll see what this looks like in a minute.

  3. In the Choose a category drop-down box, select News.

  4. In the Menu Title field, type in News. Click on Save.

What just happened?

Creating just one link to the News category changes a lot on the frontend. The site now looks as follows:

The home page is still empty, but the menu does contain the new link, News, as shown in the following screenshot:

When visitors click on the News link, they are shown a category blog page. This is an overview page of all contents of the News category. The overview consists...

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