Beginner's Guide

Figure 7: Example website

All content items have to be available in different languages (Figure 6).

Front page

I create a few articles for each language with the attribute featured (Read more in chapter: A Typical

Article)

To make it easier for you to start I created a screencast (will be published soon for 2.5). This is the 1.7 version (which

still works)

I create a menu called default with a menu item called default, which links to Featured Articles. I

conﬁgure this menu item as Home by clicking the Home icon. The menu default needs no corresponding

module, it should simply exist (This behaviour is in the actual version of Joomla 2.5 and will hopefully be

changed in the upcoming updates).

Afterwards I create a menu per language and the corresponding menu module. I create a menu item

for each language : (Home, Startseite, Accueil). These menu links have to be conﬁgured as Home by clicking

the Home icon (Figure 8). If you see the ﬂag beside the menu item, everything works ﬁne, if not ... watch

the screencast :)

Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide

Monday, 30 January 2012! Page 229

http://vimeo.com/28593435