Now that we've created the categories for this Web site, the next step is
the articles, right? Remember the CAM, Categories, Articles, Menus?
We have created all the categories, we are onto the articles and to create
articles for your Web site, we need to go to the Article Manager.
You can get there by going to the Article Manager from the link over here,
on the right side of the screen for Article Manager, or you can go to
Content>Article Manager, either way takes you to the same screen.
And here is the Article Manager, looks a lot like the Category Manager,
that's by design, and as you see here, there is absolutely nothing to look at,
that's because we haven't created any articles for the Web site yet.
So let's go ahead and create some articles.
To do that, we are going to start by clicking on the New button up here in
the upper left-hand corner and this screen will let us go ahead and put
articles into the Web site.
So I am going to start by making my About category or my About article,
so I am going to ahead and call this About and the category I want this to go into
is the About category.
So I'm going to pick that from my list of categories.
In your Exercise Files I have given you two documents here, one is some stuff
for About Us, one is some stuff for Our Products.
Scroll back on up to the top here, here under the About page I have a Mission
Statement and a Company Description.
I am going to go ahead and highlight that and Edit>Copy and then here inside of
my window inside of Joomla!, I'm going to do a Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste
that content here into my Web page and it looks like I have got a few funny
characters here that I may need to clean up for whatever reason, must be
something weird that Notepad did.
So I am just going to clean up a couple of those funny characters, hopefully
you won't any. Here we go, We've, so you might just need to take a quick look
through your copy here and make sure that nothing funny happened when you pasted it in.
Yeah that looks pretty good and really that's all we need to do.
So all we need to do now is click Save & New and we are going on to creating
another article inside of Joomla!.
So I'll create the next one here and in the About us page, this is the Company Structure.
So that is the title of the article, Company Structure, I am going to highlight
that and say Edit>Copy.
Then in here inside the box, Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste and the category once
again is About and then I am going to Copy my article which is all of this
wonderful stuff here, just scroll on down and Ctrl+C or Cmd+C, Ctrl+V or
Cmd+V to paste it on into the Web site.
And then once again I am going to go through and look for any little funny
characters or any other oddball things that might have happened here in the Web site.
And I am just going to continue going through and creating these articles now
inside of Joomla!, there are three About us articles and in the Products copy,
there are several, there's a top level products page which is about five
paragraphs long, followed by articles on the Mini Panel, the Energy Bulbs, the
Solar Mug and the Low-Flow Shower Head, so each one of those is going to be a
separate article as well.
So I am going to go ahead and take care of those off-line and we're just going
to crank on through and set up a whole bunch of articles on the Web site.
When you are done, and you visit your Article Manager, you should see them listed there.
So I'll show you something like what that's going to look like.
I'll go ahead and hit Save & Close and you should see a listing of all of the
articles you've created here inside of your Article Manager when you're done.
So I am going to go offline now and we are going to go ahead and put in all of
those articles into Joomla! and I'll see you in the next video.