4. Adding Articles

In This Chapter

Using the Article Managers 70

Choosing an Editor 74

Adding Articles 80

Doing More with Articles 89

Creating Article Menu Items 95

Putting it All Together 96

Articles make up 90 percent of your site content. While site content is usually thought of as text and images, articles can also contain forms, video, entire photo galleries, links, modules, and even custom scripts such as Google or Facebook widgets. Any type of web medium can be placed into an article and placed on your site.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create articles and assign them to categories, how to add media using the Media Manager and your editor, and how to control the display of articles using article menus.

Using the Article Managers ...

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