Beginner's Guide

Figure 7: Select template position
SECOND EXAMPLE: LINKING TO CATEGORIES (NEWS MAGAZINE)
It is possible to link to a few pages like in the first example but what will you do if you have thousands
of articles? The answer is easy in Joomla 1.7:
Build a structure with categories, assign the articles and link it to a category layout.
Preparations
We'll need a few categories with articles:
Categories:
News
World
Africa
Europe
Technology
Internet
Cars
Create them or use existing categories (Read more: Structure Your Content with Categories).
Step 1: The menu
It's up to you how to continue. The easiest way is to use the existing Primary Links menu. But if you
want, you can create a News Menu, like me.
Step 2: The menu items
When dealing with categories you have to think about what should be shown after you have clicked on
the link. The expected behavior in our case is
Category News = all news should come up
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
Monday, 30 January 2012! Page 132