Joomla Tutorials: Adding and Editing Content and Images to a Joomla Web Site

This Joomla Tutorial covers how to create and edit content. There are two types of content in a Joomla web site. The two types of content are static content and content. Static content are pages that remain the same, are not categorized into a section or category and will not be syndicated (passed along to other sites if you have your syndication turned on).

How To Create New Content and Putting it in a menu

To create a new page from scratch, follow the instructions below.

1. Log in at www.yoursitename.com/administrator

2. Along the top row of menus, choose "content"

3. In the drop down menu, click "All content items"

4. After the list of content loads, click "New" at the top right of the page.

5. You must type a title. You can leave the "alias" area blank.

6. Choose "News" from the "Section" drop down menu at the top.

7. Choose "Latest News" from the "Category" drop down menu.

8. In the editing area, type what you want the page to say. To create a new paragraph, you must hit "shift" and "enter" at the same time.

9. To add images, follow the instructions for adding images to content. (see above - starting page 4)

10. When you are finished with that, you will need to create a link for the menu. On the right of the page, near the top, you will see "parameters", "images", publishing" and such. Click the tab that says "link to menu".

11. In the list of menus, click "At the frog". Do not choose any of the other menus. If you do, it will disrupt the layout of the site.

12. Below the list of menus, type in the name of the link, such as "Space rental" or something similar, depending on the page you are adding.

13. Click "Link to Menu" below that.

14. Click the disk icon at the top of the page to save your page.

Editing Site Content (web site pages)

You can edit a web site page that is already on the site without having to log into the administration area if you have a log in area on your home page. Please read this entire page before editing the site.

1)Log in at www.yoursitename.com. Once you log in with your user name and password, you will see small icons next to the titles of each content area that look like a piece of paper with a pencil. Click that icon and it will load the editing page. As you make your changes, click the check mark button at the top of the editing area to save and continue working. When you are finished, click the disk icon to save and return to the web site.

If you are on dial up connection, it is highly suggested that you edit from the administration area (the backend) by logging into www.yorusitename.com/administrator . This is because your log in on the front end of the web site (what everyone sees) automatically logs out after a certain amount of time and instead of saving your changes, you will be redirected to a "please log in page" and you don't want to lose your work.

1 )After logging in, look along the top of the page at the menu titles.

2) Click the menu that says "Content".

3) In the drop down menu, click "All content items". This will give you a list of pages on the web site that you can edit.

4) Choose an item by clicking its title.

5) Make your changes.

6) Save by clicking the disk icon at the top.