Chapter 4. Adding Web Pages to Your Site
In This Chapter
Working with sections and categories
Creating new articles
Making menu items point to articles
Reorganizing the site's menus
Adding Read More links
Changing the order of articles
In Chapter 3, we show you how to create an uncategorized article and display it on the front page. Creating Web pages in addition to the front page is different. What you write for these pages isn't displayed on the front page but has to be reached through a link — that is, a menu item.
In this chapter, you find out how to create articles that don't appear on the front page. You start by creating an uncategorized article; then you create new sections and categories for a Web site. Finally, you see how to place an article in a particular section and category, and then add a link to it.
First, however, you need to understand how Web pages are organized in Joomla.
Organizing Web Sites
As sites get bigger, organizing them becomes more important. For that purpose, Joomla uses sections and categories.
Tip
It may be helpful to think of a section as a filing cabinet, a category as a file folder in that cabinet, and an article as an individual piece of paper in a folder.
You should make every effort to fit your articles into sections and categories. Your site may be fine with a few uncategorized articles for a while, but when it starts to grow, masses of uncategorized articles become very awkward.
Imagine that you run a law firm. When you're just starting out, keeping all ...
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