Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Chapter 5. Small Sites, Big Sites: Organizing your Content Effectively

In the last chapter, you saw that creating a website in Joomla revolves around three major tasks: designing a layout, creating content, and adding extras. The central part is, of course, creating content. You can have a Joomla site using a simple default template, you can have a site without adding extra functionality, but you can't have a site without content. That's why, in the next few chapters, we'll concentrate on managing and creating content. In later chapters, you'll work on the layout and add extras.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to:

• Translate a basic site map to a workable blueprint for a Joomla-based site
• Design a clear, scalable framework for your content, grouping ...