2.1 Creating an Article and Menu Item

Add content to your website by creating an article (web page) and adding a link to it so visitors can find it in the main menu.

Prerequisites

• 1 Tutorial Introduction covers where to run your tutorial and administrative access.

Steps

1. Log in to Joomla backend and navigate to the Home Dashboard.
2. View the frontend of the site. Find the main menu and note the menu items. We will be adding a new menu item.
3. Return to the Home Dashboard. In the Administrator Menu, click Content > Articles.
4. Click New. Result: A new-article form appears.
   • Title: Company Overview
   • Article Text: We are a company dedicated to providing quality products and services to our customers.
   
   
   

   

5. Click Save & Close.
6. In the Administrator Menu, click Menus > Main Menu.
7. Click New. Result: A new-menu-item form appears.
   • Title: About Us
   • Menu Item Type: click Select, then in the popup expand Articles and select Single Article.
   • Select Article: click Select, then in the popup select Company Overview.
   
   
   

   

8. Save & Close
9. View the site, click About Us in the Main Menu to view your article.
   
   

   

Concepts

Articles in Joomla are the main content types on a web page and can display text and images.

A menu item is a link to an article, grouped with other links in a menu.

In this tutorial we only had links to individual articles. This is called a menu item type of Single Article. In later tutorials we will see other menu item types.