Page 1 Using The Joomla! Contact Component as a Business Directory Note: This tutorial assumes that you have administrative access when logging into the Joomla! back end. Log Into Joomla!'s back end: Go to your Joomla! website and log into the back end by typing in your user details. (Figure 1) Create a New Category in the Contacts Component: In Joomla!'s back end menu, go to the components menu. In the list of sub menu's that drop down you will see the contacts manager. The contacts manager also has sub menus that pop out to the right. Select the categories menu. (Figure 2) Click new to create a new contacts category. (Figure 3)