We've now created content for pretty much the entire Joomla! Web site.
We've got all of our press releases, our solar blogs, our products, our about area,
it's all plugged into the Web site.
The links in the contact will be coming later under Components portion of Joomla!
so the last thing that we are missing is a page for the home page.
So let's go ahead and add that now, and the way we do that as always we are
going to start by going to the Article Manager and I am going to start by
creating a new article.
This time I am going to leave this to the Uncategorized Category this is just
a quick little article, I am going to put it on the home page of the Web site,
not terribly concerned about it being assigned to the right category, and so
Uncategorised is a great catchall for these little articles that are kind of
oddballs like this.
Inside of your Exercise Files, you'll find I have created for you this home page
article, the first line of course is the title, and I am going to
Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy that, Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste that in,
and then the second paragraph of information here I am going to highlight,
Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy, Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste that on in, and it looks like
I've got a little bit of funky formatting, so hang on just a second while I clean that up.
Now I've got my home article in place here and it's actually very easy to make
this now appear directly on the home page even without that menu link
we haven't yet created or edited at all, and the way that we do that is we make
this a featured article.
The home page is configured so that it will show featured articles from
any category of the Web site, and all we need to do is indicate that this
is a featured article.
We can do that right here on the left side of the screen under Details where
it says Featured, just change that to say Yes, and go ahead and say Save & Close.
You'll see our article will appear here in our list, here is that article,
Harnessing wind and sun for a cleaner, energized planet and you'll notice next
to it is the star, and the star indicates that this is a featured article.
You can turn the featured property on, either through the article editing screen
as I just did, or you can click the star right here inside of the Article Manager
to feature or un-feature articles.
Now if I go to the front end of the Web site and I hit Refresh, I have my article
that appears right here on the home page of the Web site, which is really great.
Now as you take a look at that I am sure you're thinking about things like,
I don't want it to say Written by Super User, and I don't like this Details,
Category, Hits, Published stuff, I just wanted to say the text, and what is this
dropdown over here on the side.
Well it's all coming soon, so don't panic, one thing at a time, at least we know
we have one article here displaying on the Web site.
And that is a featured article, the home page by default, displays all of the
featured articles on the Web site in a blog-like format, so that is why we have
now at least one article appearing on our Web site on the home page.
And you can add more articles to this home page simply by featuring other
articles right here in the Article Manager in the back-end of Joomla!