There are three steps to creating an usable article in Joomla...
- Write the article
- Create the menu item
- Link the menu item. Depending on how the menu item is created, this can be part of the second step.
Other aspects of content creation...
- Tags - Names, Nouns
- Categories - Actions, Verbs
When you are creating content...
- Write simply. Short sentence are the easiest to understand.
- Write clearly. Start out be stating what we are going to do and possibly a layman's explanation of the concept.
- Write logically. Most of our work follows a logical order. Make sure the article that you write follows that order.
- Write predictably. Use as similar a structure, style, voice, mood, and tense as possible across the whole article in both the sentences and the paragraphs.
- Write picturesquely. Include screenshots when possible and simple diagrams when useful. A picture is worth a thousand works.
- Minify the images before you upload them. tinyjpg.com and tinypng.com are two sites that I use for the process.
- Write quickly. The points listed above are our goal. If a reasonable amount of information is in the article, an editor can come along later and clean things up. Keep those points in mind, but do not stress over them.