Joomla Content Management Basic

www.startlearningjoomla.com www.startlearningjoomla.com In this video, we’re going to introduce Joomla and explain the basics of content, sections & categories. If you’re already familiar with these concepts, don’t worry, we cover the basics and move on into much more detail as we progress. If you don’t have the PDF guide for this course, please be sure to download it at the link below before you continue. [ Back to Control Panel ] [ Click Section Manager, then go back and click Categories ] Joomla uses Sections and Categories to organize Articles. Joomla allows you to organize your site content into sections and further break those sections down into separate categories. Think of sections as overall functional areas for your site. For example, if your website’s function is to provide product information pages, company info, a corporate blog, technical support content, then you would treat each of these as a separate section. This might not perfectly match how your menus are laid out, but simply the major top-level breakdown of your content article. Categories allow you to break up sections into more detail. For example, your support section may have FAQ articles, how-tos, whitepaper download pages, etc. We would simple create categories for each of these under the Support section. Joomla doesn’t currently support breaking categories down further into sub-categories. You really only get to organize things at 3 levels… Sections, Categories and Articles. While later

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