In Joomla, an article is content you want to display on your site. Articles may include text, images, videos, files, and links to other assets. For many Joomla sites, articles form the majority of the information presented in the site.
It is important to understand that with Joomla the content of the site (for example, articles) is totally separate from the presentation of the site (the way it looks on the page). It is best to think of articles as pure content, independent of the way it might be presented. An article generally cannot be seen until it is linked in a menu.
The process for creating a new article and getting it online is as follows:
- Make sure a category exists in order to be able to save your article.
- Create the article.
Our example web site is designed with 4 areas that consists of 3 articles each. Each area has the following articles:
- Area Landing Page
- Article 1
- Article 2
Let's create the same for Area 5. It is very easy to create articles. Just login the back-end of your site if you aren’t there already, click Content > Article> Add New Article.
Provide a title (Area 5 Landing Page), add some content to the editor, and select Area 5 as the category drop down menu. Click Save & Close.
After saving the article/page, you will be taken to a listing of all articles. You can edit any article, delete any article, or make new articles. Go ahead and make two additional new articles for the site titled Article 1 and Article 2, assigned to the Area 5 category.