| Creating a Joomla! Article |
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Please, enter your login information in the Joomla! Administration Login screen:
Creating articles in Joomla If you have installed Joomla through Fantastico or from source with the sample data, you already have a few articles created and published. You can take a look at how they are written and organized in order to learn intuitively some good practices. To see them go to Content, Article Manager from the top admin menu.
There you will see many articles listed in the form of links. Once you click on a link, you enter the Edit mode for an article. When you are done with exploring an article, click on the Close button to exit it. This will discard all changes you have made.
Next we will create our first article "About us". From the top admin menu, click on [New].
Then make the following changes:
Since our logo is not uploaded yet, we click first on the [Upload file] link in the prompted window. First you have to browse your local computer and find the logo. Once the file is found, click on [Start Upload] to upload it.
Next you will see an acknowledgement that the file has been successfully uploaded. Now it can be found in the upper part of the window along with the default Joomla images. We click on logo.png (or whatever the name of your logo is) to select it and then on [Insert] to insert it in our article.
Next we will add the "Our services" page. We will follow the same steps as before: from the top administrator's menu, go to Content -> Article manager. Then we click on [New]. Again we will set the same Section and Category for our page: "Uncategorized". This time we will describe our services and what we offer. Note how feature-rich the default Joomla text editor is. Its menu is intuitive and has familiar design. |








