Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Time for action – creating an intro text

In the articles you created in earlier chapters, you've already seen it's good to add a separate intro text to an article. Now you know why; if you don't, the article can only be displayed fully on overview pages such as the category overview you just saw. Let's fix things by adding an intro text to our new article as follows:

1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and open the article that you just created (Just What are Ugly Paintings?) to edit it.
2. In the text editor screen, add a new first line. In this example, we've entered The Characteristics of Truly Bad Art.
3. Place the cursor just after this first line to indicate that you want Joomla to split the article here, and create a Read More link to point to ...