Building Joomla! sites from scratch, and systematically customizing them to your needs

Building Joomla! sites from scratch.

A sitemap is critical to having a well organized site. You must make an effort to draft one before you start working in the administrator backend.

Joomla generates a page the instant you click its link. This means that the pages viewed can be easily changed by changing the menu links rather than the content itself.

Joomla offers two methods to organize articles. The first is to use uncategorized articles, which are suited for very small sites. For larger sites the second method of sections in categories needs to be used.

Building Joomla! sites from scratch.

A sitemap is critical to having a well organized site. You must make an effort to draft one before you start working in the administrator backend.

Joomla generates a page the instant you click its link. This means that the pages viewed can be easily changed by changing the menu links rather than the content itself.

Joomla offers two methods to organize articles. The first is to use uncategorized articles, which are suited for very small sites. For larger sites the second method of sections in categories needs to be used.


Making your pages with uncategorized content items is the simplest way to build a Joomla site, but it is difficult to manage with more than a dozen pages.


Sections and Categories
If I have many more articles than a dozen, using uncategorized articles isn't going to work. If I pick up the stack, I might have to flip through a thousand pieces of paper.

Joomla offers two levels: the highest is called sections, and below that are categories.

You can't put content items in a section; they must go in a category. This means that each section needs at least one category.