Creating a website with Joomla 1.5: Contact us page

Creating a Contact us Page

Next we will add a "Contact us" page with an online mail form. We first need to create a new Contacts Category. For this purpose we will go to Components -> Contacts -> Categories:

Then we click on [New]. Since we plan to have a simple Contact Us page, we will create only one single category called again "General" and click on [Save]. As you understand, here categories are also used for better content organizing.

Then we go to Components -> Contacts -> Contacts:

We click on [New] and fill in our information. You have to make sure the email you entered is valid since all the mails you receive via this contact form will be sent to it.

In order to avoid having your contact's name duplicated later, from the right box "Contacts parameters" check the button Hide next to "Name".

We are leaving unchanged the rest of the default options, which suit our basic needs and click on [Save] from the top-right menu.