So, right now on my Web site, I have a single contact page, and when I click on
this, I go to a generic page that will let me contact the company. I'm not
addressing this to anyone in particular, but I can just send in a generic e-mail
here to whoever is on the receiving end of this form.
Over on About part of our Web site, we do have a list of executives who work
here, and we might want to send e-mails to at least some of these executives,
and we might what want to list their contact information on the Web site as well.
One of the things that we can do in Joomla
is, rather than just listing a link to a single contact like this, I could make a
list of contacts, and then people can choose which contact they'd like to contact.
So, to do that, I am going to go ahead and set up three more contacts inside of Joomla.
I am going to flip over here to my back-end, and I'm going to go to Components,
Contacts, Contacts, and right now, I have just one contact.
I am going to make three more. I'll walk you through the first one, and then you
can go ahead and put in the other two.
So, I am going to go ahead and hit the big green New button, and inside your
Exercise Files, I have given you information about these contacts. So this
will be Sally Kerner, so I am going to copy and paste her name in here.
I am going to put her in the Category of The Management.
Then I am going to switch over to the Contact Details tab.
I have images for these people, so I'm going to Select an image. This will put
me into my media manager, where I can pull out a picture. Right now
I need to upload some pictures.
So I am going to go ahead and do that; hit the Browse button down here on the bottom.
I'm going to go Chapter 9, and video number 5, and you'll see here I have three pictures.
So I'll go ahead and open up those, and start the upload.
And you'll see that I have these people now appearing here inside of the media manager.
So, I want to link to Sally, so I am going to select here from the list, and I am
going to say Insert.
Then it's going to ask for her Position; that's here inside of the
document. This is just a CFO.
And it's going to ask for Email address, which is right here, Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V.
It'll we ask me for the Address; 123 KinetECO Drive, and once again that will be
Los Angeles, California, 90025.
And further down on the page here, we will put in her phone number.
Okay, so we've gone ahead and we have populated this with information. I have
two more contacts to make, so I am going to hit Save & New, and I'm going to go
ahead and set up the other two contacts for the Web site, and I'll see you on the other side.
Okay, I have just finished filling out Jason's information here, and I'm going
to go ahead and say Save & Close.
Now I have four contacts that are listed here in my Contact Manager.
So now I would like to display these on the Web site.
Right now I have only the management link displaying. One thing I could do would
be to continue to make links to individual single contacts, maybe a
sub-navigation under Contact, and I could go to each one of these pages,
but I think there's a better way to do this, and that is here under our Menus >
Main Menu, I am going to scroll in down to my Contact link, and click on that.
And rather than choosing the type of single contact, I'm going to click my
Select button, and switch.
This time I want to take a look at Listing Contacts in a Category.
All of my contacts have gone in that Category of The Management, and so I'm just
going to say, list all the contacts in a category.
Then it's going to ask me which category I would like; well, that's going to be
The Management. And if I just go ahead and say Save here, and I Refresh the
front-end into the Web site -- I am going to do this by going to the Home page
first, and then back to the Contact page --
now I have a listing of my contacts here on the Site.
So we have the generic contact that's listed here, we have Sally kerner, we
have June, and Jason, and you can see here that we have got the phone numbers
that are listed over here.
The formatting isn't totally awesome, but we can certainly fix that.