Joomla : Site Content    Adding Sections and Categories  

Page 1


We're ready to start adding some of our own content to the site. First we'll add the content, and then we'll add the menu items to point to it. We need to add the content before we can create the menu items.

Here we are back in the Joomla Administrator page.

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 2


We want to add content for these three menu items:

  1. XML / XSL Consulting
  2. Website Design
  3. Software Development

We also want to add content for the Home page, but as we'll see, this content will be taken from the above items.





Page 3


Looking at the Content pulldown, we see that for Content sections we have

  • News
  • Newsflashes
  • FAQs

None of these sections, which were added as examples by the Joomla installer, seems to fit the content we want to add.

 

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 4


So, we'll choose the Section Manager and add a new section.

All Joomla regular content is placed in Sections. Sections then contain Categories.

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 5


Here's the Section Manager. We're going to click on the New button to create a new section.

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 6


To hold our new content, we'll create a Section named "Services".

  1. Enter a title (to be used in menus) and a name (to be used in page headings) 
  2. Click Save.
  Click on the image for page view.




Page 7


We now have a Section called "Services".

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 8


Every regular content item needs to be placed in a Category within a Section. We need to create at least one Category for our new section.

Select Content - Category Manager.

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 9


Here's the Category Manager.

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 10


Click New.

  Click on the image for page view.




Page 11


  1. Enter the title and name for this Category. (We'll call it "Service").
  2. Click Save.
  Click on the image for page view.




Page 12


Now that we have added a new Section and Category, we can begin adding content items. In the next tutorial, we'll add our first content item.

  Click on the image for page view.



Text Author: Joe Orr   Copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved