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Sunday, November 16th, 2008 at 11:14 am

How to create a Joomla

I'll take you through a step by step process of creating a website using open source content system Joomla management. A Content Management System (CMS) is basically a software package that gives you a way to separate the contents of the view that give more flexibility and ease of operation and maintenance. It also offers an easy to use the framework to add and publish content to your site. In a way similar to WordPress, but it is more advanced and offers many more options for both viewing and content management.

For more information about what is a CMS, check out Wikipedia here .

You can find a wealth of information www.joomla.org for the more advanced settings and features, but I will do my best to give as much information as possible.

Here is what it takes to get started:

For now let's start with a basic install of Joomla on your local PC. A fully implement Joomla, have a system of files, a database and a Web server. Instead of installing and configuring each of them separately, let a package that includes everyone.

You can find these packages in http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/standalone-servers which incidentally is where all Joomla extensions are published. Extensions are an way to personalize your site with Joomla. Let's go a little later extensions in this tutorial.

Joomla Basics

There are some important components Joomla uses to perform the task and allows you to go through each one by one.

As with any CMS, any Joomla site has two faces, a first is what the world sees. "Everything is luxury and beautiful and all the work behind the scenes is paid here. We will refer to this part of the site as the interface from now.

The other side of the website is the site of administration in which to spend a major chunk of their time adding content to your site and creating the shape of the sample the frontend. This is the back of the site.

The backend of Joomla is a very important part of your website. Everything you see on the front is added and configured in the server. To reach the administration page of your Joomla site, simply add "/ administrator" at the end of the URL of the page.

For example. http://localhost/Joomla/administrator/

The default user name / pswd for these separate servers is admin / admin. If that fails, you may want to check the readme notes that come with it.

Now that you are registered in the Joomla backend, you should have something like this on the screen.

Contents of statistics in Joomla is created as articles. These items can be placed in different categories, which in turn are sections. If the item is a separate page and does not belong to any of these sections can be left as a "Uncategorized", which means it is a static page itself.

Creating an article

To create an item, simply click "Add new Article "icon in the Control Panel or the Administrator to select a content item to view this page

Click the button to create a new article.

You can start adding content to the text area similar to MS Word format and add to it. Once done you can save by Click the Save button in the upper right.

Let's create a new article entitled "Hello World" and is a static page, selecting the News section.
This is what it will look like when the fact of the management view.

And if you want to see what it looks like your article in place, click the preview button in the upper right corner.

There you go, you have created a Joomla article is also a static page, if you want to be.
Stay tuned for more tutorials on Joomla.

About the Author

Ganesh Madireddy is an IT professional who specializes in creating small to medium scale web solutions using open source Content Management Systems and configuring them for Search Engine Optimization. He is also the webmaster for a few high profile web-sites like http://www.dealster.in You can visit his web-site at http://www.3rdrockit.com to find more tutorials on Joomla as well as other open source software packages.

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