1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 So I'm here on my Press Releases page, I just created this as a category list 2 00:00:04,001 --> 00:00:05,001 in the previous video; 3 00:00:05,002 --> 00:00:07,002 it's not a terribly attractive page. 4 00:00:07,003 --> 00:00:12,003 Nowhere on this page first of all does it say that this is the Press Releases page. 5 00:00:12,004 --> 00:00:15,004 I only know that because I built this Web site and there's this funny little 6 00:00:15,005 --> 00:00:18,005 dropdown up here on the top, it's telling me how many hits are in each one of 7 00:00:18,006 --> 00:00:22,006 my Press Releases, which can be kind of embarrassing if you don't get a lot of 8 00:00:22,007 --> 00:00:23,007 traffic to your site. 9 00:00:23,008 --> 00:00:28,008 The fact that I have one here that has zero hits, it's kind of sad, you think about it. 10 00:00:28,009 --> 00:00:31,009 In fact that these are written by Super User, you probably don't really care 11 00:00:31,010 --> 00:00:36,010 about either, so we need to clean up the look and feel of this a little bit, so 12 00:00:36,011 --> 00:00:41,011 I'm going to show you how to do that now. If you happen to be at the backend of Joomla! 13 00:00:41,012 --> 00:00:45,012 and you go to Menus>Main Menu and I'm going to scroll on down to Press 14 00:00:45,013 --> 00:00:46,013 Releases down here. 15 00:00:46,014 --> 00:00:50,014 The last video we worked on this screen a lot, the Details tab, now I'm going to 16 00:00:50,015 --> 00:00:53,015 switchover to Advanced Options and I'm going to scroll down to the List Layouts 17 00:00:53,016 --> 00:00:58,016 down here on the bottom and I'm going to tweak some of these settings. 18 00:00:58,017 --> 00:01:04,017 So Display Select is this little item right here, the number 10 here, this 19 00:01:04,018 --> 00:01:09,018 dropdown, I really don't want that there, so I'm going to set that to Hide. 20 00:01:09,019 --> 00:01:13,019 The Filter field is actually not displayed by default, but there's a search box 21 00:01:13,020 --> 00:01:16,020 that you can have display here on this page if you wish. 22 00:01:16,021 --> 00:01:21,021 If you have a hugely long list of stuff that might be a very helpful thing to do, 23 00:01:21,022 --> 00:01:25,022 but this is set to be turned off by default, that's the global setting, 24 00:01:25,023 --> 00:01:27,023 so I'm just going to leave that in place. 25 00:01:27,024 --> 00:01:31,024 Table Headings would give you some headings on the top of this, Titles and Hits 26 00:01:31,025 --> 00:01:35,025 and so forth, I don't really want that either, so I'm going to leave that 27 00:01:35,026 --> 00:01:40,026 exactly where it is, I could Show the Dates associated with these articles and 28 00:01:40,027 --> 00:01:44,027 I could do that, but in fact the dates are all exactly the same for this, 29 00:01:44,028 --> 00:01:46,028 so I'm not going to show that either. 30 00:01:46,029 --> 00:01:50,029 And then finally down here Showing the Hits and Showing the Author, 31 00:01:50,030 --> 00:01:51,030 you see those are displayed here. 32 00:01:51,031 --> 00:01:54,031 The Hits over here in the column, the Author is underneath; 33 00:01:54,032 --> 00:01:59,032 I actually don't want any of those at all, so I'm going to Hide those. 34 00:01:59,033 --> 00:02:03,033 And if I just go ahead and hit my Save button, so I can save my changes but keep 35 00:02:03,034 --> 00:02:07,034 this window open for editing, then I'm going to refresh the front end of the 36 00:02:07,035 --> 00:02:11,035 Web site and you'll see that already this page is looking a lot better, a lot 37 00:02:11,036 --> 00:02:15,036 less cluttered, it's just a list of articles, and when I click on these 38 00:02:15,037 --> 00:02:20,037 articles, I can see more information, read the full article and so forth, 39 00:02:20,038 --> 00:02:22,038 so that's looking pretty good. 40 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:27,039 But it still doesn't say Press Releases on this page, so I need to add that. 41 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,040 Back here again to the back end of Joomla! 42 00:02:30,041 --> 00:02:35,041 back to the Advanced Options for this particular menu item, and if you scroll on 43 00:02:35,042 --> 00:02:41,042 down here, all the way down to Page Display Options, under Page Display Options, 44 00:02:41,043 --> 00:02:44,043 this is where I can customize a few things. 45 00:02:44,044 --> 00:02:47,044 First of all I can change my Browser Page Title. 46 00:02:47,045 --> 00:02:51,045 So right up here in front end of the Web site I went through how you got KinetECO 47 00:02:51,046 --> 00:02:55,046 up there at the top, you did that through the Global Configuration, 48 00:02:55,047 --> 00:02:56,047 I covered that in an earlier video. 49 00:02:56,048 --> 00:03:00,048 Press Releases is the name of the Menu item and that's what's showing up there 50 00:03:00,049 --> 00:03:01,049 on the top of the page. 51 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:05,050 If I wanted to display something different in that tab, I could type in a 52 00:03:05,051 --> 00:03:10,051 browser page title right here and that would override what's on the top, but 53 00:03:10,052 --> 00:03:13,052 what I really want to show the words Press Releases show up on this page is 54 00:03:13,053 --> 00:03:18,053 the Show Page Heading part of this, so I'm going to set that to Yes and then 55 00:03:18,054 --> 00:03:23,054 I'm going to type in a page heading of Press Releases, and now if I just hit 56 00:03:23,055 --> 00:03:28,055 the Save button again, and I refresh my Press Releases page, you'll see that I 57 00:03:28,056 --> 00:03:32,056 have the words Press Releases up here at the top of the page, so at least now 58 00:03:32,057 --> 00:03:33,057 I have some page identity. 59 00:03:33,058 --> 00:03:37,058 Now the last thing that I might want to add is some introductory text that'll 60 00:03:37,059 --> 00:03:41,059 appear here, between the word Press Releases and a list of all the Press 61 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:42,060 Releases that show up underneath. 62 00:03:42,061 --> 00:03:46,061 Marketing people love to add a little bit of blah, blah here at the top, because 63 00:03:46,062 --> 00:03:49,062 for some reason they think people read that, I don't think anybody reads that 64 00:03:49,063 --> 00:03:53,063 little bit of text there at the top, I think people just go right to the press 65 00:03:53,064 --> 00:03:56,064 releases, they know what this is, but marketing people frequently want a little 66 00:03:56,065 --> 00:03:57,065 bit of introductory text. 67 00:03:57,066 --> 00:04:04,066 So in your Exercise Files I have included for you a little bit of introductory text. 68 00:04:04,067 --> 00:04:09,067 If you go ahead and highlight that and Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy it, we can 69 00:04:09,068 --> 00:04:11,068 put this in and have this appear. 70 00:04:11,069 --> 00:04:14,069 The place that we put it in though is a little bit tricky. 71 00:04:14,070 --> 00:04:20,070 Inside of our menu item under Advanced Options, we have the option for a 72 00:04:20,071 --> 00:04:23,071 Category Description to either show or hide. 73 00:04:23,072 --> 00:04:28,072 By default that category description is hidden, but I'm going to show you where 74 00:04:28,073 --> 00:04:30,073 you can go to put that category description in. 75 00:04:30,074 --> 00:04:34,074 So first off all I'm going to set this Category Description to Show. 76 00:04:34,075 --> 00:04:38,075 All we can do here in the Menu item is set that category description to Show or 77 00:04:38,076 --> 00:04:40,076 Hide, we can't set the category description here. 78 00:04:40,077 --> 00:04:46,077 So once you set that to Show, go ahead and say Save & Close and then I'm going 79 00:04:46,078 --> 00:04:51,078 to go to Content>Category Manager and I'm going to find my Press Releases 80 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:56,079 category and you probably saw this great big box here, but you didn't know 81 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,080 what to do with it and I didn't tell you back in the category chapter. 82 00:04:59,081 --> 00:05:04,081 Well, here's what you can do with it, you can put in a Description and just like this, 83 00:05:04,082 --> 00:05:10,082 and that Description doesn't necessarily show anywhere unless you're 84 00:05:10,083 --> 00:05:13,083 making something like a Category Blog or Category List and you specify that the 85 00:05:13,084 --> 00:05:16,084 category description should show on the page. 86 00:05:16,085 --> 00:05:23,085 So, now that I've got my introductory text here, if I say Save & Close and 87 00:05:23,086 --> 00:05:28,086 I now refresh the Press Releases page, there's my little bit of text right here 88 00:05:28,087 --> 00:05:33,087 at the top of my Press Releases, and I've got all my links to my articles here listed underneath. 89 00:05:33,088 --> 00:05:38,088 So Category lists are another way of displaying a whole bunch of articles on a single Joomla! 90 00:05:38,089 --> 00:05:43,089 page, you can also do that with blog, which would be a different type of layout, 91 00:05:43,090 --> 00:05:47,090 but they're a great way of introducing a bunch of text in Joomla! 92 00:05:47,091 --> 00:05:53,091 in a compact form and you can, of course, top your category list off with a 93 00:05:53,092 --> 00:05:57,092 nice-looking title, as well as a little bit of introductory text if you wish.