Joomla-Getting-Started-Tutorial-by-JXWD-V0.4

Joomla! Getting Started Tutorial by JXWD The first part of this tutorial gives you absolute minimum steps and settings to add a page under JXWD system… Joomla! (yes it’s spelt with an “!”) is a web based content management system which lets you edit your web site. It is part of your web site and can be moved with your web site between most servers. Part 1 Logon using login page www.mywebsite.com/administrator Your username will normally be set as “admin”. Use the password supplied to you by JXWD. Adding a page Adding a page has 2 distinct steps not to be confused: 1. Creating an “Article” 2. Creating an element in the navigation to open the article Step one merely puts an article (which like the name suggests is a piece of text sometimes with pictures) into the database. Once this is done a link can be added in the navigation to open the article. Creating an Article Once you have logged in go to the “content” > “Article Manager” in the pull down menu. The article manager main view is a list of all the articles in the database something like: To create a new article press the button. This will open the Joomla editor as follows (This article is being used to edit an article with a picture of 2 runners in it.): The title can be anything you want it will not affect anything apart from helping you know what is in the article. Just let Joomla! set the alias for you… Section for a simple site is ...