By default, joomla shows one leading article for intro articles in two columns with four links at the bottom and we can override this right here. We'll do that in just a moment, but click on blog layout. If I click on category, I can override all of the global settings that I've already done. I have the ability here to do a lot of things with this blog layout. Menus, Joomla ville attractions and click on attractions. If I come back over to my administration screen and go back to the Joomla Ville attractions menu, go ahead and do that. But this is a blog layout and it's really powerful. Again, this is what's called the intro text and we haven't actually added read mores yet. It's a blog layout of all of the articles in the attractions category, with one published in its entirety at the top and two more side-by-side or in two columns. This time, however, when I click on it, it's not each individual article. Now I know it's going to show up in the left hand side but that's ok. Select the menu joomla ville attractions and, once again, choose the right, middle or position 8. Let's just call this Joomla ville attractions. Head over to extensions, modules and click new. Because this is a new menu, we need a new module. Well, you remember from the cash workflow the show step is add a new menu or, if you already have the menu, add the new item and then show it using a module. We'll come back to that in just a moment. Change choose a category to attractions and, for now, simply just click Save and close. Now a category blog is a kind of layout that takes all the articles from a particular category, and its subcategories if we choose, and displays them in a layout of our design. Click on select and, instead of clicking on a single article type, go ahead and click on articles. Click new and we're just going to call this attractions. Go ahead and click on the little 0 here and that takes us into the menu items for Joomla Villa attractions. Now remember, we're making a new menu here that contains menu items. You can put a description in if you want. Let's call this Joomla ville attractions and, for the menu type, we'll just call it attractions. Go ahead back into your menu manager and click on add new menu. The next menu I want to show you is the category blog. So we've talked about how to add menu items for individual articles.
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