Creating Content Pages in Joomla
Posted on 23. Sep, 2008 by admin in Joomla Tutorials.
Creating Content Pages in Joomla
In order to build a website you usually have a navigation bar containing a menu that links to specific pages. In Joomla there is a menu system that allows you to link to specific articles. This tutorial will show you how to create a content page for your web site and link to it using Joomla’s menu system.
Log in to the Administration Panel
Click the Add New Article Button in the administration Panel
This will take you to the Article :[New] screen
First you need to fill out some dialog boxes. Enter the Title of the content page, in this example I have entered “About the Display Joomla Site”. Make Sure that Yes is selected next to Published, this will ensure that your content will be active. Select No next to Front Page, this is not for the front page of the site, but rather the About Page, so it will not appear on the front page. I have left Section and Category set to Uncategorised.
Insert your content into the text editor section and click the save button. This will take you to the Article Manager Screen
Notice that your article is set to published and set to not show on the front page. When you go to your front page, you will see that the article can not be seen from the front page, but also that there is no way to get to that article. We will now need to add a link to the menu in order to get to the article that we just published.
Go to the Administration Menu and Select Menu and then Main Menu, this will take you to the Menu Item Manager : [mainmenu] Screen. Click the New Icon on the top right of the screen. This takes us to the Menu Item: [New] Screen
Because we are working with Articles, click Article in the list. This expands a list of options for how we would like to display the article. We would like just a single article to be displayed so click on Article Layout. You will then be taken to a screen where we can create a link to the Content Item that we created earlier.
Insert a Title into the Title Box, Here I have inserted About Us. The title that you enter here will appear as a link on the menu and can be different to the title of your content item (or article)
Next click on the Select Button, to the right of the Select Article Box, which is under the Parameters (Basic) section on the right side of the page, this will bring up a list of articles that are in your database. Select the Article that you created in the earlier steps.
This will take you back to the previous screen. Click on Save. This takes you back to the Menu Item Manager : [mainmenu] Screen. To see what the link you have created click Preview in the top right of the menu (the one that is just below the green bar at the top of the administration panel). This will open up your Joomla site to the front page, you will now see a new link in your menu named what you named it in the previous step. Click on the menu link you created and you will be taken to the new content page that you created.
