Comments for Organizing Your Content at http://www.howtojoomla.net , comment 1 to 52 out of 20 comments http://www.howtojoomla.net Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:52:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-928 Hi Rob... I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for visiting! Cory - Cory Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:36:17 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-927 Great article. My brain was fried after finally getting my site looking good. I needed to start thinking about how to organise my content and after reading many complex articles on modifying modules/components/templates your straightforward guide to content was just what I needed. Double thumbs up! - Rob Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:31:21 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-853 I am fairly new to joomla and recently converted my site over to 3.0. I have a lot of pages which people will want to print or email and I can't figure out how to add a disclaimer and copyright to what they send to pdf or the printer. Any suggestions? Thanks - your site has been a lifesaver Kay - Kay Aubrey-Chimene Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:42:49 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-827 I have a gripe with this section/category setup. Lets say you are on the site and you are viewing the contents of a section (a list of items). You click on one of those items, and Joomla takes you to the root of that category. Lets say the section was "About our church." And within it you see things like "faith statement," "vision statement," etc. Okay, then you click on vision statement (from that list of items). And Joomla doesn't take you to the content, but to a page that is right before the content. Why must people click a link just to get to where they need to go? Hope I'm making sense. > Section > Category 1 > Category 2 > Category 3 You click on Category 1 and you end up on a page that just says "Category 1" again. Then you have to click a link to get to that categories content. Why? Or am I setting something up wrong? Thanks in advance. - Zee Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:30:40 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-814 I have been looking at Joomla for some time and have read many of your posts. Very helpful, thank you. The link you put into the first comment spot is broken as CompassDesigns has upgraded from 1.0 to 1.5 here's the new link http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/17-joomla-tutorials/103-content-is-kinga-beginners-guide-to-organizing-content-in-joomla.html. Thanks Again! - JMac Thu, 29 May 2008 08:34:53 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-803 Hi Christian... All good points. I think the use of the term "page" is so ubiquitous across the web that it just makes sense to people. That's why I used that term rather than "dynamically generated content item", which makes very little sense to the average user. To get multiple functions on the same "page", you need to use modules. On a given page, the template will load a component and several modules depending on how you have it set up. For example, if I want to display an article from the core content component along with recent events form Eventlist and new member profiles from Community Builder, I would create a menu item for the article (loads the core content component to view the selected article) and publish a latest events module for Eventlist and a latest members module for Community Builder. The tough part is finding good modules to accomplish the functions you want to accomplish. I hope that makes sense. That is really a big topic, since it is fundamental to how Joomla works. I added the login form to every page. Thanks for the suggestion. - Cory Mon, 19 May 2008 10:37:09 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-802 Hi Cory, Many thanks for an excellent overview. I see you have recently written an article on how to get a particular template/page relationship - very valuable! And so I wonder if you might be the person to take on what I have not seen any one else do - explain "pages" in Joomla, and how to construct a site with varying templates. Almost every writer on Joomla at an early point declares, "A key to understanding Joomla is that it has *no* pages!" - and then goes on to use the word "page" over and over again! I understand what they are getting at with the "no pages" declaration - but, in the real world - as evidenced by the continued use of the word - all websites are *experienced* as made up of pages - even if they have been dynamically created before being assembled on the screen! So, once I have my *content* organized; and I've determined what *functions* I want on the site, e.g. VirtueMart, CommunityBuilder, a gallery) how to place them on various pages? I may want several functions on a given page. What I am doing to date, is hand-writing "planning pages" and identifying the functions for each; then blocking out screen space for each. Several templates fall into place, that can be used with various extensions to yield the pages. What's next? (I think a very, very badly needed article could result!!) Many thanks in advance, Christian Sweningsen [By the way, to subscribe (I hope this is to this thread, I'm referring to options underneath the comment entry box) I must be registered - I am - but I assume this also means logged in, and I don't find a log-in form on this page (the Organizing Your Content page).] - Christian Sweningsen Mon, 19 May 2008 10:27:25 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-801 Hi I am reading your tutorial and working on them. I create section and category. But problem that that section and category is shown into menu item i will fail to do that. And you also tell about create the section and category but do not going ahead of that tutorial. So please tell in next tutorial that, how to create menu item after creating section and category Thanks and Regards Chetan Chopkar - Chetan Chopkar Mon, 19 May 2008 07:41:49 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-794 Thanks for this article. I wish I had read it earlier! I am new to Joomla (about 6 weeks ago) and I did realise that the decisions I made at the outset regarding sections & categories could critically affect the ease of developing the site, however I did get into a fundamental stalemate with myself as to which of two basic approaches was best. I think I made the right choice but would welcome guidance as to pros/cons of either. The best way may be obvious to more experienced people. Basically I run 3 junior footbal clubs and the basic types of information reported for each is the same so I felt I could have structured sections & categories in either of the following two ways: FIRST WAY: Team1 (section) T1 Results & Fixtures (category) T1 Photos (category) T1 News (category) Team2 (section) T2 Results & Fixtures (category) T2 Photos (category) T2 News (category) SECOND WAY Results & Fixtures (section) T1 results & fixtures (category) T2 results & fixtures (category) T3 results & fixtures (category) Photos (section) T1 photos T2.photos T3 photos News (category) T1......etc I struggled to understand whether it would make any real difference to the ease of developing the site. In the end I decided to follow the first approach and created a section for each team largely because it just felt a bit more logical but I would welcome your view on whether Joomla Sections/Categories is best suited to one approach or the other. I have not gone live yet so am prepared to change my approach if significant benefits. Thanks Paul. - Paul Davies Tue, 13 May 2008 17:16:00 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-766 :) ;) ;D >:( 8) :-* :'( - james Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:14:54 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-697 Hi Rodrigo, You might want to check out the [url=http://www.ijoomla.com/aff/idevaffiliate.php?id=263_0_1_5]iJoomla Magazine[/url] component. It is not free, but I think it will do what you are asking for. Cory - Cory Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:45:40 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-696 First of all, thanks for helping us! I have a site (www.revistaautor.com) and I want to separate the content on the front page based on categories. I would like to do something like that: CATEGORY 1 Article A Article B CATEGORY 2 Article C Article D and so on. The point is that I want to put the words CATEGORY 1 and 2 and... Is there any component to do that? Thanks a lot - Rodrigo Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:34:35 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-692 This seems basic, but I can't find a way to do it - I have created my heirarchy. Now, I want something like a menu item that displays a page listing my sections, with descriptions. Section Names would each link to a page that lists the Categories for that Section. Categorie Names would link to a blog list of Content Items assigned to that Category. Alternately one page with all these links in an outline format would be great. But all I can figure out how to get is the blog list of content for a category or for a section. There must be a way...? - Sharon Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:52:44 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-630 Thanks for the super fast reply, Cory. I will dig into that link that you gave. Thanks once again - Ajit Abraham Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:04:42 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-629 Hi Ajit, Unfortunately, this is not possible with core Joomla functionality. You could try looking into some of the ACL components available for Joomla which add this functionality. You can find a list of them here: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1782/Itemid,35/ Good luck! Cory - Cory Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:52:55 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-628 I am trying to create a church website with the following concept. The church has different sub divisions within for eg Youth Wing, Ladies Wing etc. I will create Sections for each of these divisions and there will be specific people (authors) appointed to submit contents to their respective Sections. I want to restrict an author of Youth Wing, to submit content only to the YouthWingContent. The author of LadiesWing should be able to submit content only to LadiesWingContent. Is this possible in Joomla? Regards Ajit - Ajit Abraham Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:40:04 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-613 Thanks for a nice site with easy to find information...now I know why my menus were all messed up , I did category, section, content..oops...you didn't mention if this can be fixed , I'm tempted to delete all of the menus I've made but dont know if it will cause issues...I am not all that web savy..I just wanted a little website and Joomla looked fun ....so far (2 days now) it hasn't been fun at all.....LOL... so how does a person fix their menus if they really mess them up. - Terion Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:13:04 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-582 Hi I think your tutorial is very good as it helps people to understand how joomla structures content not intructions just how to build sections etc. I'm trying to build a website that is to be a sort of online encylopedia of outdoor sculptures (for those interested in the subject). It will list upward of a thousand locations around the world where people can see good examples, with maps, directions, photographs, rating and related into. But here's my problem area. I want users to navigate to examples of sculptures in a variety of ways using this great teg cloud that you have shown us , but also through a directory system, e.g a directory of locations, or a directory of historical periods or a directory of scultpure typres, e.g. figurative , abstract, bronze, etc. My problem is that in order to do this i need each content item to be ordered in several different ways so committing to one singe category/section thread isn't possible. My question is: would creating a thousand or so static content items with tags and then installing directory/tree components, and tag clouds etc. be the way to go? Any ideas? - Slimjim Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:36:32 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-577 Hi Nathan, I have never used jreviews. I am not familiar with that product. Cory - Cory Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:42:59 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/9/20/#comment-576 Thanks cory, have you ever used jreviews before? If so is there any advice you could give? - Nathan Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:06:19 +0100