Help Desk Website Tutorials Create a New Article
Creating an article has a few key steps to ensure it appears in your desired position. Joomla organizes your content or 'web pages' in Sections and Categories. Each article is a webpage so as you create an article you are creating a web page to be seen. Before you create an article you have to have a section and category for Joomla to store it. If the desired section and category is not already created, You will need to create them first. See here for Creating a Section and Category tutorial. Once you have created a section or category you can reuse them for other articles you create in order to keep them organized.
Step 1
This is the screen you will see once you have logged into the administrator of the website known as the "back end" or "back office". This is where all of the website editing is done from.
On this home page is quick links to different area as you can see to the right. With one click you can create and article, section, category, menu item, or user. Or select on any of the management links to manage the same areas. You will find this links very helpful and will help the speed up the process in creating or adding articles, menu items, users and other useful becoming familiar with these link will help spped up the process.
Step 2
Selecting New Article brings you the this screen. This is where all of your information will be added. But first there are a few detials that need to be done. In this screen, you have to set the Section and Category for the article as well as the parameters for the article. First, select the Section you want the article to appear under.
Once you select a section, the Category list will change to all categories available under this particular section.
Next select the Category.
Step 3
The next step is setting the parameters of your article. The parameter are the thing you want to appear on the front end with your article like the title, the section and category names, authors name, etc.
1. In these settings, you can control how long an article is published. You can set the start and end date, or leave as they are set and the article stays published until you manually unpublish it.
2. The advanced parameters are the guidelines for showing the technical parameters of an article such as, showing the title, author, date written or modifed, etc. The parameters have the choice of "use Global", "Hide" or "Show". If the parameters are left on "Use Global", the article will use the settings that were under the global configurations of the website. Or use can choose hide or show to override the website settings.
3. The third parameter is for an article description and keywords. A brief description can be added if desired. Keyword should always be add to assist search engines in finding your information on your website. All keywords should appear somewhere in the article in order for them to be legitimate.
4. You are now ready to start adding your information for your article. I know it seems like a lot of steps to go through, but it really only takes less than five minutes to go through these steps. And the more they are done, the more routine they become. It usally takes less than a minute to go through them once you are familiar with them.
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