Page 1

We have finished the basic design of the site, now we just need to add content.

Since Joomla works by tying content to menu items, we only need to figure out

1. what menu items we want
2. what we want to have displayed for each menu item.

We only have one menu at the moment, the main menu on the left, so we just need to figure out what entries we want there, and what should show when a menu item is clicked on.

 

Page 2

Here's the minimum Main Menu entries we need to launch the site:

Home - short introduction page

XML / XSL Consulting -  one page descriptioni

Website Design - one page description

Software Development - one page description

News - list of short articles

Contact Us - either the built in Contacts component or a custom form

 

Page 3

Before we launch the site to the publick, we'll also need to install one other component that is not a content component. This is the "OpenSEF" component.

This component will make our site page addresses (URLs) "Search Engine Friendy". For example a url like

http://www.nycircuits.com/index.php?option="com_content"&task="view"&id="5"&Itemid="6"

can instead be renamed to

http://www.nycircuits.com/guidelines

The OpenSEF component will also be useful when we finally launch the site, because it can be used to redirect all of the existing site urls to the new Joomla URLs.

In the next set of tutorials we'll add all of the content needed for launching the first version of the site.