For clarity:

The difference between a WYSIWYG editor (eg “Dreamweaver”) and “Joomla” is that, in “Dreamweaver”, you create a Web page and then place it on the Internet with the help of one ftp program or another.
“Joomla” does not make Web pages, but takes several blocks of data from a database, and combines them to form a web page
Such blocks can be any type of data, such as text, menus, pictures, modules, etc.
You must decide how, and with what data, “Joomla” composes a page.
You can block any of these pages.
It may seem a bit complicated, but it is not. Let me first start with the simplest of simple tasks, the construction of the Home page of the site.

Adding an Article to a home page:

Open the backend of “Joomla” and login.
To add a block of data to the database and then post it on this page, click on the “Add New Article” button in the “Control panel”. In this case, the data is the text for the home page.

In the window that appears, enter a title in the “Title” box (1). This is what any visitor will see at the top of the page.
Then select the “Yes” check box for the “Published” section(2). This will publish the article on the site. If you select “No”, the item will not appear on the page, but is only stored in the database.
Then select the “Yes” check box for the “Front Page” section(3). This will place the article on the Home page of the site.
In the “Section” and “Category” boxes, we select “uncategorized” (4).
We have not created sections and categories, so these cannot be adjusted. But beware, this does not mean that they are not important. These are extremely important, but for the home page example, they can be omitted.
Then enter the text in the text editor (5), and you can format it, using the “Formatting toolbar”. I do not have much to say about this toolbar because it is almost the same as in other applications, eg “Microsoft Word”.
Click “Save” (6) or “Apply” (7).
The difference is that the former will store the data, and close the current text editor window , whereas the later will perform the same operation, but without closing this window.

In this example I click “Save” , so the text editor window is closed and the “Article Manager” window is opened.
In the “Article Manager” window, we see all the items present in the database.
In this example,we have only one, so only that is displayed under the title “Home”.
The green check mark (1) under “Home”, indicates that this article will be displayed on the “Home” page of the site.

When we look at the frontend of “Joomla”, we see that the article was published on the Internet.
I’ll give you a tip.
Open the backend and frontend under different tabs in your browser. This makes it easier to switch quickly between windows, and view the result of adjustments, immediately. Click on the “Refresh” button in your browser (1) to view the revamped version of the page.

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