5. Working with and Creating Content for Your Joomla! Site

Now that you have a basic Web site installed, you are ready to start organizing the content of your site using Joomla! In this chapter we will explain the use of the Joomla! Content component to create articles and organize them into categories. We will demonstrate key features and procedures. The patterns you learn in the Content component will apply in other components.

Defining Content

The Content component is the most important component for creating what visitors and users will see on your Web site. Articles are the basic form of content. Articles are organized into categories. This terminology comes from traditional print models, where a newspaper might have News, Sports, Business, ...

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