User's Manual

Chapter 6: Accessing Functions from the Back-end: Manager
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 72 Version 1.0.1.
ManageContent
Introduction
There are three levels to organising the content of a Joomla! Content Management System:
Sectionsarebigcontainers;theyholdCategories.
Categoriesarelittlecontainers;theyholdContentItems.
ContentItemsareallthetextandimagesyouwanttoappear onapage.
The only catch is that you cannot create a Content Item without having a Section and Category
for it to live in.
Imagine a filing system: Sections are drawers, Categories are folders, and Content Items are
pieces of paper.
If you had all of the pieces of paper lying around in your room that would be a mess. If you had
them in folders, but the folders were lying all over the floor that would not be much better. If you
had the all the pieces of paper in a drawer, with no folders to organise them, that would not be so
great either.
So to keep things organised, you need to put all your papers (Content Items) inside folders
(Categories) inside drawers (Sections).
The other nice thing about having Sections and Categories is that you can assign different
templates to them.
The diagram below illustrates a typical three-column template.
Figure 53: Three-Column Template