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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you've learned how to install Joomla. Specifically, we covered:

  • To be able to install and run Joomla, you'll need hosting space that meets Joomla's specific server requirements. You also need an FTP software to put the required files on a web server. You might want to install a few different browsers.

  • Installing Joomla takes four steps:

    • First, you get the current Joomla file package from www.joomla.org and uncompress the packaged files on your computer.

    • Then, using FTP, you place the downloaded files on your hosting space.

    • Next, you'll create a database before you can actually start installing Joomla.

    • The final step is running the Joomla web installer in your browser. This guides you through the installation process.

  • The output of the Joomla installation has two faces. The Joomla frontend displays an example website that is publicly accessible, the backend is Joomla's web management interface where for now just one VIP is allowed to log in—you!

Now that you've got Joomla...