Creating a Blog Site with Joomla Posted by zepa on 8:10 AM

There are many ways to create a blog, with tools ranging from the most basic text editor to high-end "studio" tools like Adobe Dreamweaver. Many tech-savvy types now use a kind of software program called a Content Management System (CMS) such as WordPress and Joomla, or a combination of tools, to achieve just what they want. You can do the same if you learn how to use the right programs the right way, and have the option of integrating a WordPress blog into an existing site, simply linking to it or using special Joomla extensions from the user community for a range of other approaches. Please note, however, that this particular article is about creating instant blogs with the resources available in a default Joomla installation.

Joomla sites The definition of "a Joomla Web site" is simple and straightforward - it is any Web site, whatever it looks like, that is built on and runs on the Joomla CMS. Certain features that you offer, and even some cosmetic considerations like typefaces and design, will make your Joomla site a "blog," but the underlying framework, extensions, templates and so forth are the same as in any number of other Joomla sites. On typical Web sites of, say, 50 pages, you would create 50 menu items. For easy access to all the pages, you would likely build out both top- and sub-level menus. What we begin to notice is that the number of pages that a blog would eventually grow to include could be vast. With the usual dedicated links to dedicated pages, and possibly a main and a secondary navigation panel, you will be making a lot of links.

That problem is multiplied many times when you think about blogs. Even at a single post per day it would be tedious, and doubly or triply so if you post two or three times daily. Many traditionally built sites are now retooling themselves as CMS- and specifically Joomla-powered sites, just to get around the problem of "page proliferation" and "menu making." A Joomla site - okay, blog - can have any number of pages with links and menus handled in a simple, direct way. This is made possible with Joomla's fabulous blog layout.