Joomla! 1.7 Tutorials: Add articles

In this lesson we start by adding four articles in the Products category.

Two are in Product type No. 1, and one each in No.2 and No.3 type.

Product No. 1 - Blue 1 and Red 1
Product No. 2 - Purple box
Product No. 3 - Orange ball

Go to the backend (Administrator) of the site, and add an article for our Blue widget.

You can write some content directly in the text editor inside Joomla! 1.7

It is absolutely imperative that you don't write your content in a word processor, as these programmes add their own styling which will prevent your page from validating properly.

If you are more comfortable using a programme such as Microsoft Word®, then use the icon to paste from Word, that is available in some text editors in Joomla! This method will 'clean' the text for you.

I find Notepad the easiest, and the text can be pasted straight in.

Do ALL your styling (pretty-ing up the words) in Joomla!

You can add images directly into the Madia Manager, make folders for say, Products, and delete them.

You can also add an image into the Media Manager while you are writing the article.

Click on Save and New.

Enter the names of the products in the title bar.

Choose the parent for each product.

After you write the last article, click Save and Close.