Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Time for action – create a facebook using the Blog layout

Let's use the Blog layout to create a small facebook, a collection of pages presenting the CORBA team:

1. For this purpose, create a new category (via Content | Category Manager | New) named Who are CORBA? Select About CORBA as its parent category and save it.
2. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and create three new articles in the Who are CORBA? category in the About CORBA main category. In this example, we've used these titles: Ms. Daiping Suraba, Dr. T. Phaedratski, and Dr. A. Fienstein. Create articles with an intro text, a Read more link, and a main article text (if you're unsure how this works, refer back to Chapter 4, Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an Hour).
3. Now let's create ...