Joomla!: Visual Quickstart Guide, Second Edition

13. Going Social

In This Chapter

Creating a Blog Page 280

Styling a Blog Page 283

Adding Blog Modules 291

Adding an RSS Feed 295

Adding a Comment System 296

Putting It All Together 298

Over the last decade the web has seen monumental changes: from table layouts to CSS, from static pages to dynamic, from hiring a web team to a do-it-yourself CMS. The greatest change in the web, however, was the rise of social media. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter attracted the masses, and in the simplest sense, almost everyone now has a web site in one form or another.

Before the big three though, there was the web log, more commonly known as the blog. Blogs may have started as personal journals or a way for writers to strut their stuff, but they have evolved ...