#76 - Feature an article with image preview

Typically each website has a number of "popular" articles which you want people to view if they landed on your site. To make these features more attractive, we typically create a Featured or Popular Content section, which attracts the attention of your user to the article. And what better way than featuring an article than by linking to it via an attractive image. Here's how to do it in Joomla,

Desired End Result:

Upload the image you want to use via the Media Manager (Site > Media Manager), then we create our custom module. 

So we go to Extensions > Module Manager > New > Custom HTML > Next

This creates a new Custom HTML module, where we can now insert our pretty image into.

Below on the left hand side, we can insert our Custom Output. What we will be doing is, inserting the image, and creating a link to the article on the image...