How does Joomla manage content (articles / items) ?
Some basic ideas..Image a train. You have a locomotive pulling the whole train.
Attached to it, wagons.
In the wagons, the travellers. I don't remember who originated this analogy, but ever since I first read this, I have had it in my mind... Joomla is just the same.You have sections; these are the locomotives and don't hold travelers.
You have categories; these are the wagons, and they contain the travelers.
You've got the content items, these are the travelers ! A locomotice usually has a number (a section has a description);
a wagon usually also (category description),
and each traveler is a unique person and can only be in any one wagon at a time
(a content item belongs to one and only one category, thus section)! Joomla itself would be the railroad system: multiple trains rolling along in harmony / multiple sections/categories/items coexisting. The default install with content already holds a few "trains", but each of the train elements can be changed: - you can rename sections, update their description, add an image;
- same goes for categories, which you can also "attach" (move) to another section;
- and "travelers" can move between "wagons" (move items between categories), be renamed, their actual content can be rewriten...
I hope this "picture" helps you understand Joomla a bit better? Maybe you're hungry? Try this instead then: section = table, category = plate, content = food in the plate! Bon Appétit! ;)  Trinity Railway Express
(is that guy in the back to the left Eddy Murphy..?)
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