Beginner's Guide

Chapter 7
Structure Your Content with
Categories
Joomla articles must be categorized. Generally spoken, categorization is the process of recognizing,
differentiating and understanding something through abs creating as many categories traction. This may sound
rather complicated but proves very useful when managing several articles.
Joomla offers the possibility of creating as many categories as you wish. It is possible to build nested
categories and an article has to be related to one of these categories.
Newspapers, for example, use categories to better differentiate between their articles. Here is an
example from a Joomla template
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(Figure 1).
Figure 1: Gavick Template December 2009
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