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10 January 2010
Designing and developing a professional website with Joomla does take a good amount of knowledge, but Joomla allows non developers to add content to their website with ease once the site is developed. Users can add articles to their sites along with installing simple modules, components and plugins.
Adding Website Content
There are three levels of content in the Joomla CMS. There are sections->categories->articles and in that order. You will first create a section by going to the section manager in the Joomla backend. For the sake of this tutorial, lets say we will create a section called "vehicles". We do not add any content to sections or categories, so now we will goto the category manager and create a category called "cars". Next, we create an article by going into the article manager anc clicking "new". Lets create an article called "2010 Toyota Camry Review". The article is where we start adding content. All article content is created in an wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editor. This is for non developer individuals so they don't have to use any type of code to add articles. It does allow you to switch to code view as well and lets you edit the actual html.After creating the article, click save in the top right and there you have it. You have created website content.
Linking Content
Up to this point, we have created content but it is not yet visible on your website. We have to link the content to a menu. If your site has already been developed, you should have at least one menu. While in the Joomla backend, goto MENUS on the top menu bar. Now click on whichever menu you would like to link your content. You should see some previous created items. Click new up in the right hand corner and then find and click "articles". Now we have a few options. We can create a section layout, which will show all articles in a certain section. We can choose a category layout which will show all articles from a specific category, or we can choose "article layout" which is what we will choose now because we only want to display this one article. After selecting "article layout", we can look over to the right under parameters and find the article we want. In our case it is 2010 Toyota Camry review. After selecting the article, give a title to the menu link. We will call ours "Camry Review" and click save. Now if you go back to the frontend of your website, you'll see a new menu item called "Camry Review" with the content that we have created. You can edit website articles in the backend and ass soon as you click save, the frontend content will change.
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