Creating/Editing pages in Jomla

The web pages in Joomla are known as articles. The home page is known as front page. The user needs to log on to the administrator panel to access all control of the website. If Joomla is installed on the local machine, navigate to http://localhost/administrator and if the Joomla is installed on a remote host server, go to URL – http://<sitename>/administrator to log on to control panel of Joomla. Enter your user name and password that have been already set during the installation process of Joomla and click on the login button. When you are successfully logged in to Joomla, a set of icons is displayed on the control panel. Each icon acts as either manager or any other function.

Creating new articles or web pages is an easy task in Joomla. You can start creating web pages by clicking on Add New Article icon. The page displayed is a WYSIWUG (what you see is what you get) editor. Users can enter the texts and images directly, without any proper knowledge of HTML programming.
The properties of editor are as follow:-
> It supports colored text and background.
> It supports images, hyperlinks, emoticons and lot more.
> It allows the creation and manipulation of tables easily.
> It supports layers and provides full CSS support.

To create a new article following steps are followed:-
> Click on Add New Article button in the Control Panel.  (The article page gets opened.)
> Start creating article by typing title of article in Title box.
> Set the category to Uncategorized in Category drop-down menu. (It can be set other than uncategorized according to users need.)
> Start typing the contents of your web page in Article Text box. (The Article Text box is same as any advanced text editor like MS-WORD. Images can be directly inserted or pasted in article. It contains the font options, hyperlink feature etc.)
> If you want to publish the article to front page, then select Yes option in Featured section, otherwise select No.
> Click on save to finalize the article. (Joomla will display a message regarding successful publishing of article.)

After finishing with the article, you can immediately preview the article by clicking on the View Site link on top right corner of the page. If the article does not match your expectations or at a point of time you want to rename the article, then you can edit the article by opening it in Article Manager. The process of editing is alike creation. To edit an article follow under explained steps:-
> Click the Article Manager icon.
> Locate the article that you want to rename by scrolling through all of the articles or by typing the article’s title in the Filter text box in the top-left corner of the page and then clicking the Search button.
> Do the necessary changes as per needs.
> Click on Save & Close button to finish edition process.
> Click on View Site link to preview your article.

Menus in Joomla

 Uncategorized Articles are free floating elements in a website. By default, the new article created is Uncategorized. With the rise in the number of articles, finding a particular article gets harder. Users will need to search for their article by entering its title in the Filter text box in Article Manager. With the creation of an article, a web page is not created. The article is added to the database of Joomla. Web pages do not exist on Joomla. Until the page becomes accessible, they are only items in the database. To make the article visible on the web, linking of article to a menu item is required. Menu Manager holds all the menu items. Here, you can set the layout of the article. When an article is opened, respective data from the database is taken and display in a proper format in Joomla. Creation of menu items is easy in Joomla.

Follow under explained steps to create a menu item:-
1. Click on Menu Manager icon available in Control Panel of Joomla.
2. Select the menu to which you want to add a menu item. Menu item page gets opened.
3. Click on New button and choose an option. E.g. – Single Article by clicking on Select button.
4. Type a title in Title text box.
5. In the optional Alias text box, type an alias. If nothing is written in alias, Joomla automatically assigns a one.
6. Select a menu to which the new menu item is to be added from Menu Location drop down box.
7. Select Published from State drop down menu.
8. Click on Save and Close button to finalize the article on the website.

For proper management of web pages articles are needed to be added to categories. The process of adding articles to categories is explained in details below:-
1.      In the Control Panel of Joomla, click on Add New Article icon.
2.      The Add New article page gets opened. Give a title to your new page in Title text box.
3.      In the Category drop down menu, select a Category.
4.      Enter the contents of your web page in Article Text box.
5.      Enter a description in Description window at the bottom of page.
6.      Select Published from State drop down menu.
7.      Click on Save and Close to finalize the work.

In case of Uncategorized Articles, the site is good when numbers are low. As the size of the web site gets bigger, it becomes difficult to organize articles. Categories are essential to manage articles properly. Articles in categories are like pages in a file. For different type of pages, different files are there. Same happen with Categorized Articles. By organizing the articles in categories, the web site becomes more user-friendly and ease to use and navigate. If the contents of article get out dated, the article can either be removed or unpublished from the website. Click on the green check button in the side of article title in Article Manager to unpublish that article. Proper layout of the site is needed to map the web site properly and effectively.

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