Joomla!: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 3. Adding Your Content

Before content management systems, and the popularity of Web 2.0, web sites were commonly a series of static pages. To create a dynamic site required developers with coding and database skills and a team to update and maintain them. Now, with content management systems, sites are dynamic and accessible to everyone. Static pages meant content generally lived on a single page, with a single link to that page. To have flexible content meant maintaining that content in multiple places. With a content management system, content is created as individual pieces contained in a database and can appear on a single page or multiple pages with a simple click of a button.

Joomla is so flexible that you can start adding content, ...