Add New Article

1. Title

This is the title of your article

2. Alias

This is the name Joomla! will refer to this article by. This can be left as Joomla will automatically create it.

3. Article Statistics

This box gives you statistics on your article.  These are more useful if you are editing an

article, rather than creating one.

4. Section and Category

Choose the section and category this article should appear in.

5. Editing Area

This is where you can edit your article. You will find that, by using the toolbars above this area, it begins to seem a lot more like the desktop word processors you are used to using.

6. Insert an Image

First, look at all of the pictures available and see if you would like to use any of them. If so, just click on the picture. If you would like to use a picture that is on your computer, click "Browse Files" at the bottom of the screen, and then "Start Upload". Once the upload is done, your image will appear in the list. If this image is somewhere else on the internet, you don't even have to upload it first. You can link directly to it! Just copy and paste the image's URL into the "Image URL" box.

The "Image Description" box is the text that is displayed if there is an error with the image.

The "Image Title" is the text that will be displayed on the tooltip if you hover over the image. If you check the "Caption" checkbox, you will see the title of the image below it. After you are done, scroll over to the top left and click "Insert".

Note: Don't count on being able to use animated gif images. Depending on the web browser, they may or may not animate.

7. Insert a Pagebreak

When you view an article, you can choose to have everything on one page, or put parts of the article on different pages. You can choose which parts to put on which page with pagebreaks. When you are editing, they look just like . When you press this button, you will see a dialog box that looks like this. Make sure you scroll over first, or you will just see the "Insert Pagebreak" button.

The "Page Title" is the title that will be displayed at the top of that page of the article. The "Table of Contents Alias" is how that page will be shown in the table of contents of the article. When you are finished modifying these settings, scroll over to the left again and click "Insert Pagebreak".

8. Adding a Read More Break

A Read More break is the divider that shows what users a preview of your article.

Everything above this break is the preview text; this text will be seen in the preview of the article as well as in the article itself. The content below the Read More break will only be seen if the article is clicked on. If you do not insert a Read More break, the whole article will be displayed. You generally do not want to do this, unless the article is just a short announcement. The nice thing about inserting a Read More break is the fact that there are no option screens to go through. Once inserted into the article, the Read More break will look like a red page break.

Note: Do not worry if you don't see a "Read More" link or a page two when you click "Preview". These only show up once you post it.

9. Start/Finish Publishing Date

If you click on the calendar to the right of these boxes, you can choose which day to start or finish publishing on.  For example, if you want to post a "Happy New Year" article, you can write it, and then set the "Start Publishing" date to January 1st.  That way, you don't have to bother being online right when you want something to start or stop being published.