Category: Basic tutorials

Joomla provides all the functionality you need for a simple site, but if you require some specific functionality you can often find what you need with an Extension from a third party developer. Continue reading “Extensions”

The Joomla Media Manager is used to add images to Articles and Modules, and can be accessed in different ways. In this section we will go over how to add images to your content and how to upload them through the Media Manager. Continue reading “Images”

As you’ve learned in previous sections, website content can be broken up into two parts: primary content and secondary content. You learned how to create primary content in the Articles section and how to link to that content in the Menus one. Other content on the page, such as navigation menus, newsletter signup forms or footer text is secondary content. In Joomla, this secondary content is normally controlled through Modules. Modules are one of the five types of Joomla Extensions. The other types are more fully explained in next sections. Continue reading “Modules”

The displaying of content in Joomla is a bit different than traditional web design. In a Joomla website, Menus are used to create pages and specify how the content appears on the page. Continue reading “Menus”

In this section you will learn the second part to creating primary content – creating Joomla Articles. You will also learn to search for and filter Articles in the Joomla Administrator. Continue reading “Articles”

This is the section where you start to create your actual website content. There are two steps to creating most new content in Joomla. First you create one or more Categories, which is described in this section, and then you create Articles which we will discuss in the next section. Continue reading “Categories”

This area is accessible only if you are logged-in as a member of a group having the attribute of being Super Administrators [by default the Super Users group only]. Once logged in, to access the page: Continue reading “Global Configuration”

Now that you understand the difference between the frontend and the backend, we’ll look at how to access and use the Joomla Administrator. Continue reading “Administrator”

The frontend of a Joomla website is what you see when you load your web address into a browser, such as Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer. This view, together with the backend Administrator that will be covered next, is what was created when you went through the Joomla installation process. While the backend Administrator provides an easy method for website administration and development, the frontend is the view that is presented to an end user, or website visitor. Continue reading “Frontend”