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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 3:02 pm

Getting Started with Joomla CMS

Many bloggers choose WordPress because it has a simpler user interface and less need for beginners to learn. Joomla is considered more complicated and not suitable for beginners. The truth is that for every new system has to learn something new and the best method is learning by doing. Joomla CMS is universal, can be adapted to almost any online purpose. If you have no experience with web site creation and content management system, Joomla has everything you need to take the first steps in online presence. One of the strengths of Joomla is also a large web community. For any problem you may encounter that any response on the web waiting.

For the first experience and to learn the basics of creating web pages it is best to have with Joomla installed on your computer. From the typical Web CMS is a desktop application, but only a script, you need a special environment to run it. This means the Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP processor. You do not have to install it separately, there are some simple solutions, such as EasyPHP WampServer or that provides everything required to run any PHP script. You also need a database - install and use phpMyAdmin to create a database and remember your name, user name and password. Joomla is also very simple, just unzip the file in the www folder and start the installation procedure. You will to enter data in database and password for administration. Also be asked whether to install sample data. You should do it unless you you know Joomla. After installation is complete you have a working website. You can try it in the browser by typing "localhost" or the address of where installed in the address bar of your browser.

It takes some time to understand the basic principles of CMS and web site creation. Just that access to the administration back-end and see all the menus to see what is there. Try to make some changes and see what effect they have on the site web. You should also search online tutorials Joomla. Again, if you are new to Joomla and content management systems web, take some time before You will be able to make the website according to your tastes and needs. Whenever you have a question or problem, just Google for it. Joomla has a large community of developers and users, each task or problem is already described somewhere.

The author is a big fan of Joomla. One of his latest projects is the http://recordingstudiosoftware.net/ website on music recording software. This website is based on Joomla and also includes extensions of a few. However, the visitor does not have to know how to build the CMS website or run. This information is only relevant to you as a developer web to know what is possible and how.

Even if you later decide to use another CMS is a good idea to spend some time playing with Joomla only discover how easy it is to create a website from scratch. Once you discover the world of webmasters that are only limited to your imagination. But software is possible.

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