K2 is a content construction component.
" When I started working with the first Beta of K2. After i got the idea of what it could do.....WOW, what a great step forward this will be for all joomla users.
I can see how you can ski down a mountain of content adding pictures and galleries of photos as well as video content as you go COOL'.............
One of the things people do with joomla is add extra parts you have to install and configure.
"When you install K2 its as easy as skiing. One install and your up and running with comments and lets you create custom content types (items) for your Joomla! website. With K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one component!"
Also what makes it great is that other companies are supporting this project and making other modules and components compatible with K2
Skiing can be fun, take a ride with K2.........
Here is a gallery that i used the Simple Image Gallery Pro (plugin)
it shows some of the extra areas you can use data from your articles on the sidebars you users to find content. In this way K2 provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, image galleries and attachments), nested-level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional fields (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates and a lot more!
Using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package! Since K2 is extensible with additional fields to its base item form, you can easily create category-specific content types, e.g. article, blog post, product page, directory listing.