1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Now that we are ready to put categories into the Web site, I am going to walk you 2 00:00:05,001 --> 00:00:06,001 through that whole process now. 3 00:00:06,002 --> 00:00:09,002 So I'm here on the Control Panel in the back-end of Joomla! 4 00:00:09,003 --> 00:00:13,003 and the first place I am going to go is the Category Manager and you can get to 5 00:00:13,004 --> 00:00:17,004 the Category Manager by clicking on the link over here on the right in the Quick 6 00:00:17,005 --> 00:00:21,005 Icons for the Category Manager or you can go to Content>Category Manager. 7 00:00:21,006 --> 00:00:25,006 So I am going to go ahead and go here to the Category Manager and you'll see 8 00:00:25,007 --> 00:00:29,007 here by default we have a category called Uncategorized. 9 00:00:29,008 --> 00:00:33,008 There are no other categories at the moment because we haven't created any. 10 00:00:33,009 --> 00:00:39,009 So what we need to do is we need to understand what our site map is so we know 11 00:00:39,010 --> 00:00:42,010 what kind of categories that we want to create here inside of the Category 12 00:00:42,011 --> 00:00:43,011 Manager for our Web site. 13 00:00:43,012 --> 00:00:48,012 So inside your Exercise Files I have given you the sitemap for what we are going to build. 14 00:00:48,013 --> 00:00:53,013 So we are going to start with the homepage and the homepage is going to use that 15 00:00:53,014 --> 00:00:56,014 Uncategorized category, so we have got the homepage covered already. 16 00:00:56,015 --> 00:01:00,015 I'll need to make a category called Products for the Products page then 17 00:01:00,016 --> 00:01:04,016 I am going to make a couple of categories that are actually willing to be nested 18 00:01:04,017 --> 00:01:08,017 inside of each other, I am going to have an overall news category along with 19 00:01:08,018 --> 00:01:10,018 some subcategories for Solar and Press Releases. 20 00:01:10,019 --> 00:01:14,019 Then I am going to have some pages, actually three pages that are all just about 21 00:01:14,020 --> 00:01:18,020 information, so about the Company Structure and Executives are all going to be 22 00:01:18,021 --> 00:01:20,021 located inside of the About category. 23 00:01:20,022 --> 00:01:25,022 And then the Links and the Contact Us are going to be driven by components 24 00:01:25,023 --> 00:01:27,023 so we are not going to need Categories for those at all. 25 00:01:27,024 --> 00:01:31,024 So why are all these pages in About, all going under one category, but I have in 26 00:01:31,025 --> 00:01:34,025 the News and Information areas, these broken into separate? 27 00:01:34,026 --> 00:01:39,026 Well, the reason why is this; under the About part of this Web site, these are 28 00:01:39,027 --> 00:01:43,027 just pages that are going to talk about the company in general and the company 29 00:01:43,028 --> 00:01:46,028 structure and the company executives, they are just pages of text, 30 00:01:46,029 --> 00:01:48,029 there is nothing really interactive that's going on. 31 00:01:48,030 --> 00:01:53,030 So I'm just going to create those as single articles and hook them up to my Web site. 32 00:01:53,031 --> 00:01:59,031 But for my Solar Blog, where I am going to be blogging about information about 33 00:01:59,032 --> 00:02:04,032 cool new solar technologies and my Press Release category, I am going to have a 34 00:02:04,033 --> 00:02:08,033 number of articles that are going to fall in these areas and once more I am 35 00:02:08,034 --> 00:02:12,034 going to want to display these so that I have little bits of introductory 36 00:02:12,035 --> 00:02:15,035 information followed by a Read more link and probably several of them on a page. 37 00:02:15,036 --> 00:02:20,036 To accomplish that in Joomla!, I am going to need to put them all in the same category. 38 00:02:20,037 --> 00:02:25,037 So that's why I've chosen to assign separate categories to under News and Information. 39 00:02:25,038 --> 00:02:29,038 And for the Products category, we'll actually have several individual products 40 00:02:29,039 --> 00:02:32,039 as well and we can display those together on a page. 41 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,040 So that's why they've got their own category. 42 00:02:34,041 --> 00:02:39,041 In general what you are going to start by doing is when you have a sitemap like 43 00:02:39,042 --> 00:02:44,042 this, you can start by assigning a category to each particular area and then you 44 00:02:44,043 --> 00:02:49,043 can combine these, it doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense to make a separate 45 00:02:49,044 --> 00:02:50,044 category for each individual page. 46 00:02:50,045 --> 00:02:54,045 So it didn't make sense to have an About category, a Company Structure category 47 00:02:54,046 --> 00:02:56,046 and Executives category. 48 00:02:56,047 --> 00:03:00,047 So I lumped all those together under About, but it did make sense to have 49 00:03:00,048 --> 00:03:03,048 separate categories under the News and Information part of the site, because 50 00:03:03,049 --> 00:03:06,049 those are going to be large and there is going to be many articles involved 51 00:03:06,050 --> 00:03:11,050 in each one of those areas. So that's always a good place to start. 52 00:03:11,051 --> 00:03:15,051 Once you throw in Access Control Lists or ACL on top of all of this, you 53 00:03:15,052 --> 00:03:19,052 may need to adjust your Category Structure again, but that's a fairly advanced topic. 54 00:03:19,053 --> 00:03:24,053 So my advice would be start with your sitemap, think about assigning categories 55 00:03:24,054 --> 00:03:29,054 to certainly the major pieces of navigation, assign categories to sub-navigation 56 00:03:29,055 --> 00:03:33,055 if it seems required if you're going to be doing something kind of bloggish or 57 00:03:33,056 --> 00:03:36,056 if you are going to have a whole lot of pages in the subcategories, otherwise 58 00:03:36,057 --> 00:03:39,057 lump your sub-navigation under your main navigation, if it's going to be a 59 00:03:39,058 --> 00:03:44,058 simpler structure as it is under About and that will get you started at least in 60 00:03:44,059 --> 00:03:48,059 Joomla!, you may wind up tweaking things later, but that's easy enough to do. 61 00:03:48,060 --> 00:03:51,060 So don't worry about getting it absolutely perfect when you start building, 62 00:03:51,061 --> 00:03:54,061 you can always go back and change things very easily. 63 00:03:54,062 --> 00:03:59,062 So now what I need to do is I need to create a Products category, a News and 64 00:03:59,063 --> 00:04:05,063 Info category, a Solar category, a Press Releases and an About category. 65 00:04:05,064 --> 00:04:08,064 So five categories that I need to create. Let me show you how to do that. 66 00:04:08,065 --> 00:04:12,065 So I am going to start here inside of my Category Manager. 67 00:04:12,066 --> 00:04:16,066 In the upper-left hand corner is a big green button that says New and that's 68 00:04:16,067 --> 00:04:18,067 what I want to do, I want to make a new category. 69 00:04:18,068 --> 00:04:23,068 So I am going to go ahead and click that button and it's going to ask me 70 00:04:23,069 --> 00:04:25,069 for lots of pieces of information. 71 00:04:25,070 --> 00:04:29,070 So the only thing that really matters here is the title of the category. 72 00:04:29,071 --> 00:04:32,071 So the first category I am going to create is Products. 73 00:04:32,072 --> 00:04:35,072 So all I need to do is type that name here into the title. 74 00:04:35,073 --> 00:04:38,073 Those of you who have worked with Joomla! 75 00:04:38,074 --> 00:04:41,074 For some time, you may be amazed at how simplified the screen has become, 76 00:04:41,075 --> 00:04:46,075 that's because a lot of the options that you use to see on the right side of 77 00:04:46,076 --> 00:04:49,076 the screen have now been hidden, so these are behind tabs where you have 78 00:04:49,077 --> 00:04:53,077 options here for alternative layouts, you can change Metadata Descriptions and 79 00:04:53,078 --> 00:04:58,078 Meta Keywords associated with this and you have a screen for sitting at ACL as 80 00:04:58,079 --> 00:05:00,079 well associated with this category. 81 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,080 But for right now, none of those things are really going to matter for us. 82 00:05:04,081 --> 00:05:08,081 All we are interested in is working on the title for this category. 83 00:05:08,082 --> 00:05:11,082 So that's all I need to set up at the moment. 84 00:05:11,083 --> 00:05:16,083 If I hit the Save & New button here, I will save the Products category and open 85 00:05:16,084 --> 00:05:18,084 up a new screen, which will have nothing in it. 86 00:05:18,085 --> 00:05:23,085 So I can create my next category which is News and Info. 87 00:05:23,086 --> 00:05:28,086 I can hit Save & New again and create my next category which will be called 88 00:05:28,087 --> 00:05:37,087 Solar, Save & New again and I have Press Releases and finally Save & New 89 00:05:37,088 --> 00:05:40,088 one last time and I am going to set up About. 90 00:05:40,089 --> 00:05:45,089 About is my last category of the five that I needed to create, so this time 91 00:05:45,090 --> 00:05:50,090 I'm going to hit Save & Close and by hitting Save & Close, you can see that 92 00:05:50,091 --> 00:05:53,091 I have set up my categories here for the Web site. 93 00:05:53,092 --> 00:05:57,092 So at this point what I've done is I've just created five categories, they are 94 00:05:57,093 --> 00:06:01,093 all at the same level of hierarchy, but what I really wanted to do was the Solar 95 00:06:01,094 --> 00:06:03,094 category and the Press Releases category. 96 00:06:03,095 --> 00:06:10,095 I wanted to set them up as children of the News and Information category or subcategories. 97 00:06:10,096 --> 00:06:14,096 So let's go back in and edit those, editing a category is very simple, 98 00:06:14,097 --> 00:06:18,097 all you have to do is click on the name of the category and you can make whatever 99 00:06:18,098 --> 00:06:22,098 changes are required and if you scroll on down the page a little bit more you 100 00:06:22,099 --> 00:06:25,099 will see some information down at the bottom here for details. 101 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:30,000 And what I am going to do is I am going to change this Parent dropdown here from 102 00:06:30,001 --> 00:06:35,001 No parent to the News and Information category. 103 00:06:35,002 --> 00:06:39,002 And I am going to hit Save & Close. 104 00:06:39,003 --> 00:06:43,003 And you will see here in the Category Manager that Solar is now located as a 105 00:06:43,004 --> 00:06:46,004 sub-category under News and Info. 106 00:06:46,005 --> 00:06:51,005 Likewise when I click on Press Releases here and I scroll in down to the bottom, 107 00:06:51,006 --> 00:06:55,006 under Parent, I am going to change the parent to News and Info again. 108 00:06:55,007 --> 00:06:59,007 Not Solar, if I have made Solar the parent then News and Information would be 109 00:06:59,008 --> 00:07:04,008 the main parent and then I'd have to go to Solar and then I'd have to go to 110 00:07:04,009 --> 00:07:06,009 Press Releases, which is not what I want to do. 111 00:07:06,010 --> 00:07:10,010 I want Solar and Press Releases to be at the same level, so News and Info will 112 00:07:10,011 --> 00:07:12,011 be the parent in both cases. 113 00:07:12,012 --> 00:07:16,012 And I am going to scroll back up to the top and say Save & Close. 114 00:07:16,013 --> 00:07:20,013 So there we go, now I have got my two subcategories set up. 115 00:07:20,014 --> 00:07:25,014 Joomla! allows you create as many subcategories as you like, but this is really all we 116 00:07:25,015 --> 00:07:28,015 need for this Web site, it's not an enormous Web site, it's got a fairly simple 117 00:07:28,016 --> 00:07:32,016 structure to it, so we have gone ahead and set up all of the categories for the 118 00:07:32,017 --> 00:07:34,017 Web site, we are doing great.