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Understanding the Structure of Your Website |
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Written by Wordsmith
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The website has two basic parts, the Frontend and the Backend. The Frontend is the website that the public sees on the Internet. The Backend is the administration area for modifying the website, adding content and managing users. Both the Frontend and Backend reside on the hosting server and are accessible on the Internet through a web browser.
Joomla utilizes a database to organize and store all of the content that you add to the website. A hierarchy is set up to organize the data. A Section is created first, such as News, directly under that is a category. The category might be website news and then the actual content, or article, is stored under the category.
An example of content is any written documents or graphics that you add to the website. As you add content you will need to choose the type or section such as news, FAQs, blog or articles that the content item will be stored under. This is how Joomla categorizes the content and knows where to put each item.
You can add new sections and categories as needed, at any time, as well as refining the organization by adding categories under each section.
The only limit to the amount of Content that can be added is the amount of storage space you have purchased with the hosting site.
Structure Example
Section
Category
Content
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