Joomla!: Visual Quickstart Guide, Second Edition

6. Controlling Content Layouts

In This Chapter

Setting Article Layout Options 120

Setting Category Layout Options 128

Setting Blog and Featured Article Layout Options 133

Setting List Layout Options 135

Using Integration Options 137

Putting It All Together 138

Since the days of static web sites, we have been trained to think of web sites as collections of individual pages. You start with a design, create single html pages, link them, and then insert content. The problem is that content management systems don’t really create individual, hand-tooled pages. The CMS-created pages are generated dynamically using links and content options.

So compared to the traditional design-to-content process, a CMS works somewhat in reverse. You start with the ...