We saw the types of extensions we can use with joomla...
An Article in joomla is, you can say, a container in which you can put some content for your website. And a component can be made up of a single article or even a bunch of articles...!!
What represents a component, depends on the menu item type we choose, for the menu item linked to the component...!! Confused?? okay here we start all from the scratch...:)
An Article in joomla is, you can say, a container in which you can put some content for your website. And a component can be made up of a single article or even a bunch of articles...!!
What represents a component, depends on the menu item type we choose, for the menu item linked to the component...!! Confused?? okay here we start all from the scratch...:)
Login to Backend:
- Enter the address of site.
- Eg. http://localhost/joomla_2.5/Sitename
- Enter Username and Password to login.
Create an article:
- Login to Joomla administrator backend, you can see the control panel as shown below.
- Go to Article Manager in Control Panel and then new or Content->Article Manager->Add New Article in Menu.
- Enter the Title of the article.
- Enter the content for the article in the editor.
- To put an image in article, click on Image button below the editor.
- To add a link in article, select the text or image that is to be linked and click on link/unlink option.
- Status of article:
- Publish: Makes the article available to visitors of your website.
- Unpublish: Makes the article unavailable to visitors of your website.
- Save & Close the article.
Create a menu:
- Login to Joomla administrator backend.
- Go to Menu Manager in Control Panel and then new or Menus->Menu Manager->Add New Menu from Menu.
- Enter the Title (eg. User) and Menu Type.
- Save & Close the menu.
Create a menu item in the above menu:
- Go to Menu->User->Add New Menu Item
- Press Select to select a menu type.
- And here comes what we talked at the start..!!
- The list that you see for the menu item types, is actually, the types of components.
- In a Joomla! website, in a single page, there is only ONE component always and so in this way you can link your menu item with the type of component for that page.
- Select a menu item type from this.
- Eg. If you want your menu item to display an article, select Single Article.
- This means your component for that page will be a single article.
- In this case you will find a field in right column where you need to mention which article is to be linked to this menu item.
I hope its fun playing with the joomla User Interface...!!! isnt it?!! :)
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