Summary

In this chapter, you've learned all about two types of pages that Joomla uses to draw the visitor towards the actual content of your site: home pages and overview pages.

  • When you want to set the layout and arrangement of the home page contents, you change the settings of the Main Menu Home link. These allow you to determine how many introductory article texts the home page shows, and how they are laid out.
  • The Home link by default uses the Featured Articles layout. When you want a completely different home page, you can choose not to use the Featured Articles layout. You can set any Main Menu item to be the default home page contents.
  • To show the contents of a category, you'll create menu links to category overview pages. These provide an ...

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