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I would like to show one of a featured article + image + link + few line from article like on this site:


As you can see on the link, on the top part of the side the visitor see a big image (with the most important news for example) with the link/name of the article and under this a few line from the article.

Any idea how to do this in joomla 3?

thank you masters,


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The standard featured layout will do what you say, you just will want to make a layout override to display the intro image, into text and any ther links in a custom way. You could also do the same thing with tags (make a tag "hot news" for example).

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You probably should have done some more research on this.

You could simply customize the featured layout like Elin suggests.

However I would suggest using K2, this is a powerfull content creation tool (replaces the articlemanagement in Joomla). This extensions gives you more control over your content. It does require a little bit of knowledge on html and css.


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I'm sorry but he's asking for nothing but a featured layout, why would you recommend that he do that? –  Elin Aug 29 '13 at 11:49
Arguably you are right that if his question is only to change the featured layout, he could (with some effort) change this (I will update my answer). I did read from his question that he would like more control over how his content looks in general, in that case k2 is for me a far more elegant and less labor intensive solution. –  Wouter Zanen Aug 30 '13 at 7:47
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