User's Manual
Chapter 4: Accessing Functions from the Front-end
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 40 Version 1.0.1.
This window has three main areas:
The top area contains input fields for the title of the new article and an appropriate Category for
the Item.
Note: The available categories will depend on the way the site content has been set up. In
general, where only one Section has been set up, all the categories for that Section will be
available. If you have multiple Sections, you will need to set up multiple links on the User
Menu: one for each Section.
Toolbar Buttons: Save, Apply, and Cancel are available.
Note: Save will save the data and close the window. Apply will save the data while leaving the
Add Content screen open.
The second major area of the screen contains the WYSIWYG editor where the Author enters the
content. The WYSIWYG editor that is included in the Joomla! installation by default is known as
TinyMCE and contains many of the features available in a typical HTML editing program. With the
editor you can type in and format, content without having to know HTML. Here are just some of
the features of this editor are:
Choosefontsizestyleandcolour.
Insertbulletedornumberedlists.
Justifytextwithleft,centreorrightattributes.
Inserthyperlinks.
CreateandeditTablesforinsertingTabularcontent.
You will notice that there are two WYSIWYG editor panes. The first one allows you to type some
Intro (introduction) Text for your article. This serves as a summary of the article and can be used
as a teaser for the full article when the content is displayed under certain circumstances, such as
a Front Page article, or on the blog style page, rendering that is supported by Joomla!. It is not
necessary to split your article up in this fashion as you can simply type the entire article into the
Intro Text window.
The second WYSIWYG editor is where you type the Main Text. As we said, this area is optional
as all text may be input into just the Intro Text field.