Part 2: Content
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Content in Joomla
Content What is content? Organizing content Creating content in Joomla! live
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Content you say? Web content is the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations. - Wikipedia 4/18/2010 Examples of Content: Articles (text) Audio Video Images Calendars Modules Facebook and Twitter streams Presented at Š Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli
Types of Content There are two general types of content on a site: Content you create for your site Content website users create
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Content You Create ontent you create is usually about your business / organization
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Press Releases Product Information Blogs Landing pages Contact Information Created site administrators (your team) Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli
Content Users Create oomla allows many ways for site users to contribute content.
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Blog entries Comments on Blogs and articles Forum posts New articles (if permission granted) Web Links Created by registered users
egistered users can be granted different privilege levels to create different types of content
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Steps To Create Content P
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reate a wireframe of homepage and other pages. Homepages usually have a different layout O
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Content Hierarchy
Sections Highest level container Can have many categories
Categories Middle level container Can have contain many articles
Articles Lowest tier Article = webpage = content Visitors see and read your articles Articles can be uncategorized Presented at
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Facts on Uncategorized Articles
Uncategorized is a section and category Allows for articles to show up without section/category Also known as “static content”
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Organizing Content Continued
Section 1 Category 1 ○ Article ○ Article
Category 2 ○ Article
Section 2 Category 1 ○ Article
You Can’t Do Section 3 Category 1 ○ Sub Cat A Article
However this will change in 1.6
○ Article
Category 2 ○ Article
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Steps for adding content Steps to enter content: 1. 2. 3.
Create Sections Create Categories Create Articles
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FYI…
WYSIWYG Pro editor enabled for content JCE Editor is another great editor Joomla’s core editor doesn’t have all the features these two editors have. 3rd Party WYSIWYG editors are must have extensions!
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Questions?
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