How to build a web site with Joomla?
December 26, 2009 · Posted in Joomla
I am based in Brisbane, Australia and would like to learn how to use Joomla to build web sites.I am trying to teach myself but its the blind leading the blind.
Does anyone have some time to teach me a few basics or know of a workshop that does not cost a fortune that I can attend?
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I answered this in some way on another post. The link is in the sources section below. Watch the video attached to that answer.
I opened Joomla! for the first time about 3 years ago. I closed it. Turns out I had no idea what a website that makes websites looks like. I think I have identified what makes Joomla! so hard for so many folks at the beginning.
Menus
The menu manager seemingly manages nothing for starters. It’s actually made that way for interoperability for open source purposes, I believe.
Menus items are links to components.
A component is what you see in the body of the web page. The Article system is a component.
Modules are the gadgets: login, people online, main menu; anything along the sides bottom and top of the page.
When you create a menu, a module is created. That module will display the contents of the menu on pages by its menu assignment. So, you will see a list of all of your menus in all of the modules. The selection in the menu assignment for any module is where that module will be displayed.
Recap… Make a new menu, make menu links to components, enable the menu module and select it’s menu assignments in the module manager.
See the other answers below for how to completely change the design of a Joomla! template, as well as a video to a commercial extension for Dreamweaver. That video rocks.
If you need some hands-on, I would be happy to share my screen with you… IM me through this website. It won’t take more than a half hour to show you some things.
Actually it’s pretty easy. You can’t be taught but have to learn by testing, and trying. I kept doing that and now I have my own website: