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What's different between 'Save' and 'Apply'?

Ahh-- a common point of confusion!   Save saves your changes and takes you back to the sections listing.  Apply on the other hand saves but does not exit back to the content listing. Use Apply often because if you lose power or network connection, only the work prior to your last Apply or Save will be recovered!  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

CatEgories

Categories, if you remember from Sections Categories and Content ,  are held inside Sections and they will eventually hold our Content Items.  To add a new Category is trivial because you can add a Section.  From the main menu click 'Category Manager' or if we use the fast menu across the top of the screen it is located by:

Content -> Category Manager

 The Category Manager will look almost the same as the Section Manager.  The major changes will be the title (Category Manager)  and that once you have listed categories they will also include to which Section they belong.  Again click the 'New' button from the top right menu.  All fields here are the same as when adding a new section (Simple Hu?).  Go ahead and fill in the 'Title' and 'Category Name' fields.  Now something that must not be over looked! After the Category Name is put in is a drop down box labeled 'Section'.  This is how you tell Joomla! to which Section this Category belongs.  Again, for the most part you may ignore the rest of the items on this screen.  When you have finished adding your Category click 'Save' from the top right menu.