If you need more information on what a CMS is, you check out the Wikipedia here.
You can find a lot of information at the www.joomla.org for the more advanced settings and features but I’ll do my best to give you as much information as possible.
Here’s what you will need to get started:
For now lets start with a basic local installation of Joomla on your PC. To fully implement Joomla, you will need a file system, a database and a web server. Instead of installing and configuring each of them separately, we will a package which includes all of them.
You can find these packages at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/standalone-servers which by the way is where all the extensions for Joomla are published. Extensions are a way of customizing you site with Joomla. We will go extensions a bit later in this tutorial.
Basics of Joomla
There a few major components that Joomla uses to accomplish the task and lets go through each of them one by one.
As with any CMS, any Joomla site has 2 faces, first one is what the world sees’. Its all fancy and beautiful and all your work behind the scenes is paid off here. We will refer to this part of the site as the frontend from now on.
The other side of the web-site is the administration site where you spend a major chunk of your time adding content to you site and setting up how its displayed on the frontend. This is the back end of the site.
The backend for Joomla is a very important part of your website. Everything you see on the front end is added and configured in the backend. To get to the administration page of your Joomla site, just add “/administrator” to the end of your page url.
Eg. http://localhost/Joomla/administrator/
The default username/pswd for these standalone servers is admin/admin. If that doesn’t work, you might want to check the Read Me notes that came with it.
Now that you are logged into the backend of Joomla, you should have something like this on your screen.
Statis content in Joomla is created as Articles. These articles can be placed in different Categories which in-turn are in Sections. If the article is a stand alone page and does not belong in any of these Sections, it can be left out as a “Uncategorized” which means it’s a static page by itself.
Creating an Article
To create an article simply click on the “Add new Article” icon on the dashboard or select Content à Article Manager to see this page
Click on the button to create a new article.
You can start adding content to the text area similar to MS Word and add formatting to it. Once done you can save by clicking the Save button on the top right.
Lets create a new article called “Hello World” and make it a static page by selecting the Section as Uncategorized.
Here's what it will look like when your done in the admin view.
And if you want to see how your article looks on your site, click the Preview button on your top right corner.
There you go, you have created an article in Joomla which is also a static page if you want it to be.
Stay tuned for more Joomla tutorials.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/web-design-articles/how-to-create-an-article-in-joomla-882425.html
About the Author
Ganesh Madireddy is an IT professional who specializes in creating small to medium scale web solutions using open source Content Management Systems and configuring them for Search Engine Optimization. He is also the webmaster for a few high profile web-sites like http://www.dealster.in You can visit his web-site at http://www.3rdrockit.com to find more tutorials on Joomla as well as other open source software packages.
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