Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Summary

We learned a lot in this chapter, about what makes building websites with Joomla special, what the frontend of your site can look like, and how to use the backend Control Panel:

• You've learned the difference between static websites and building websites the Joomla way. A Joomla-powered website is a collection of building blocks, dynamically constructed from the database.
• The frontend of the website—the site as your visitor experiences it—is constructed out of different building blocks. The central part of the page is called the mainbody; the surrounding blocks are called modules.
• Joomla offers a great number of options to present information in the central content area, the mainbody. Moreover, you can combine the mainbody with almost any ...