1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 We've now created content for pretty much the entire Joomla! Web site. 2 00:00:05,001 --> 00:00:10,001 We've got all of our press releases, our solar blogs, our products, our about area, 3 00:00:10,002 --> 00:00:12,002 it's all plugged into the Web site. 4 00:00:12,003 --> 00:00:16,003 The links in the contact will be coming later under Components portion of Joomla! 5 00:00:16,004 --> 00:00:21,004 so the last thing that we are missing is a page for the home page. 6 00:00:21,005 --> 00:00:26,005 So let's go ahead and add that now, and the way we do that as always we are 7 00:00:26,006 --> 00:00:30,006 going to start by going to the Article Manager and I am going to start by 8 00:00:30,007 --> 00:00:31,007 creating a new article. 9 00:00:31,008 --> 00:00:35,008 This time I am going to leave this to the Uncategorized Category this is just 10 00:00:35,009 --> 00:00:39,009 a quick little article, I am going to put it on the home page of the Web site, 11 00:00:39,010 --> 00:00:43,010 not terribly concerned about it being assigned to the right category, and so 12 00:00:43,011 --> 00:00:46,011 Uncategorised is a great catchall for these little articles that are kind of 13 00:00:46,012 --> 00:00:48,012 oddballs like this. 14 00:00:48,013 --> 00:00:53,013 Inside of your Exercise Files, you'll find I have created for you this home page 15 00:00:53,014 --> 00:00:58,014 article, the first line of course is the title, and I am going to 16 00:00:58,015 --> 00:01:03,015 Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy that, Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste that in, 17 00:01:03,016 --> 00:01:09,016 and then the second paragraph of information here I am going to highlight, 18 00:01:09,017 --> 00:01:13,017 Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy, Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste that on in, and it looks like 19 00:01:13,018 --> 00:01:18,018 I've got a little bit of funky formatting, so hang on just a second while I clean that up. 20 00:01:18,019 --> 00:01:22,019 Now I've got my home article in place here and it's actually very easy to make 21 00:01:22,020 --> 00:01:27,020 this now appear directly on the home page even without that menu link 22 00:01:27,021 --> 00:01:33,021 we haven't yet created or edited at all, and the way that we do that is we make 23 00:01:33,022 --> 00:01:34,022 this a featured article. 24 00:01:34,023 --> 00:01:37,023 The home page is configured so that it will show featured articles from 25 00:01:37,024 --> 00:01:43,024 any category of the Web site, and all we need to do is indicate that this 26 00:01:43,025 --> 00:01:44,025 is a featured article. 27 00:01:44,026 --> 00:01:48,026 We can do that right here on the left side of the screen under Details where 28 00:01:48,027 --> 00:01:53,027 it says Featured, just change that to say Yes, and go ahead and say Save & Close. 29 00:01:53,028 --> 00:01:59,028 You'll see our article will appear here in our list, here is that article, 30 00:01:59,029 --> 00:02:03,029 Harnessing wind and sun for a cleaner, energized planet and you'll notice next 31 00:02:03,030 --> 00:02:08,030 to it is the star, and the star indicates that this is a featured article. 32 00:02:08,031 --> 00:02:13,031 You can turn the featured property on, either through the article editing screen 33 00:02:13,032 --> 00:02:17,032 as I just did, or you can click the star right here inside of the Article Manager 34 00:02:17,033 --> 00:02:19,033 to feature or un-feature articles. 35 00:02:19,034 --> 00:02:25,034 Now if I go to the front end of the Web site and I hit Refresh, I have my article 36 00:02:25,035 --> 00:02:29,035 that appears right here on the home page of the Web site, which is really great. 37 00:02:29,036 --> 00:02:33,036 Now as you take a look at that I am sure you're thinking about things like, 38 00:02:33,037 --> 00:02:37,037 I don't want it to say Written by Super User, and I don't like this Details, 39 00:02:37,038 --> 00:02:42,038 Category, Hits, Published stuff, I just wanted to say the text, and what is this 40 00:02:42,039 --> 00:02:44,039 dropdown over here on the side. 41 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:50,040 Well it's all coming soon, so don't panic, one thing at a time, at least we know 42 00:02:50,041 --> 00:02:53,041 we have one article here displaying on the Web site. 43 00:02:53,042 --> 00:02:57,042 And that is a featured article, the home page by default, displays all of the 44 00:02:57,043 --> 00:03:01,043 featured articles on the Web site in a blog-like format, so that is why we have 45 00:03:01,044 --> 00:03:05,044 now at least one article appearing on our Web site on the home page. 46 00:03:05,045 --> 00:03:09,045 And you can add more articles to this home page simply by featuring other 47 00:03:09,046 --> 00:03:14,046 articles right here in the Article Manager in the back-end of Joomla!