Basic concepts on Joomla! content
First, let us start by taking a quick look at how Joomla! organizes and works with content. By default, in version 1.5, Joomla! organizes content into sections, categories, and articles. Sections and categories are used to organize our site content, which is represented by our articles.
Of course, we can have articles placed in uncategorized sections and categories. However, personally, I prefer to create a structure that maintains all of the site's content in an organized manner.
We will now create a section called "News". Navigate to your Joomla! Administrator screen, and then to Content | Section Manager. On this screen, we need to click on the New button, which will open the Section creation screen. On this screen, we can introduce the Section name and save it:
Now, inside this section, we will create...