Getting Started with Joomla!

Create a Mind Map

First note down a list of what you want to include in your website.

Note: Categories placed inside other Categories are called Nested Categories.

Tabulate Your Notes

Follow the example below when tabulating your notes.

Please note that any one Category can hold any number of other Categories within it!

Articles however must be held in a Category or be 'categorised' as Uncategorised in the Joomla! Content Management System.

Keep it Simple!

Keep things simple by focusing on Articles. And we propose at the outset that you focus on creating Menu Links to Single Articles rather than to Categories.

For a site you intend to keep small in size your Articles could all be kept in one Category.

For example:

We are here treating each Article rather like a page (or file) in a traditional website.

If you plan to 'grow' your site in due course then it makes sense to create an outline content structure which will hold future Articles which you create.

Your site could then have Menu Links to each of these Articles.

Here, we could have created all the above Articles in one Category called Farm, but if we plan to expand our website content in due course, it makes sense to prepare for this expansion at the outset. When ready to expand the site we can insert more Articles in each Category.

We can also move Articles between Categories.

Our motto: Keep it Simple!

Further Develop  Your Website Structure

For example: add more Articles to any given Category.

Later?

If your site were to expand further then you could create a Category for Cows and simply move the four Cows Articles to it.

Any menu links to these articles which you have created in the meantime will be automatically updated.

This is the power of the Joomla Content Management System!