So, in the last video, we created a list of contacts here, but this page is not
really displaying all that well, and it's little bit hard to follow.
So let's see what we can do to clean this up using some of the options available to us.
So here inside of the back-end of Joomla,
If I go back to Components back to Contacts > Contacts, and I'm going to click on
the Options button here on the top of the page.
And as you've seen before in some of the other areas of the Web site, the
Options is where you can configure what shows and what is hidden on the Web site.
I'm going to go to the List Layouts tab, and here under List Layouts, this
is referring to the page that we're looking at here on the front-end to the Web site.
So I'm going to turn some things off.
The Display Select is this dropdown that appears right here.
I don't really need that, so I'm going to Hide that.
Our Table Headings are set to Show; I don't really want them showing, so I'm
going to set them to Hide as well. I can show the Position of the person on
the page; I think that will be helpful, because it will help us know who you
want to contact from the list,
so I'm going to go ahead and keep that to Show.
I'll keep the Email address hidden.
That's their actual e-mail address. When you click through on there, you'll see
the contact form, and they can contact you from there.
I'm going to show their Phone number as well. Hide the Mobile and the Fax.
I'm actually going to Hide the City, State, and Country as well.
The reason why is because these are all people who are living in exactly the
same city and state, so I don't really feel the need to show that three times.
And then if I just go ahead and say Save, and I refresh this page,
so now you can see that I have my first link here.
Here's my generic link, with the phone number listed over here on the side.
The second link is Sally Kerner, and her title; her phone number is listed all
the way over here. And if I wanted to, I could just turn off the phone numbers
here in this view also.
It looks like this is the way that this is set up to display here through CSS.
You could certainly use CSS to change the way this page looks, but changing the
CSS is kind of beyond the scope of this course.
What I will do is I will just turn off the phone number here.
And if I go back to my List Layouts tab, and I scroll on down to Phone, and I say
Hide that, and say Save & Close, and I refresh my page again, then I just have a
list of people here.
And now when I click through on any one of these, you can see that June Su
Woo is a legal counsel, you have her address, you have her phone number, it's listed here,
and you can send her an e-mail right here, all within the same page.
So these contact lists are a fairly useful piece of functionality inside of
Joomla. You can have contacts for more than one category, you can list
categories of contacts; if you need to list many, many people in the Web site,
that's a great way to go about it.
It's nice to include titles associated with the people here, so there is a
little bit of guidance as to who might be the right person to contact with a
specific question or concern for your Web site.
So I've showed you two ways do this; one is through the single contact, for just
one contact, for a very simple Web site. Here we have a list of contacts for a
bigger company. So the contact component in Joomla
is fairly useful, it's configurable, and give it a shot on your Joomla
Web site.