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Joomla Resources for Beginners
Joomla is one of the most flexible and secure Content Management Systems (CMS) available today. Another thing that makes Joomla so popular is that it is open source - meaning you can download it and install it for free. For people new to content management systems or even web design, Joomla is a script that can be easily installed onto your web hosting, once installed it allows you to easily publish your content onto the world wide web. Joomla is not just used by the hobbiest, or enthusiast but also by household names such as Porsche, BMW and even the United Nations. It is supported world wide with a massive user base of over 1,000,000! In addition Joomla has an extremely robust framework that allows you to easily add extra features at the click of a button. These features include voting polls, social networking tools, ecommerce facilities, and rss feeds but to name a few - currently it has over 2000+ extensions available making it's limitation almost zero. If you can't find a plugin to suit your needs you can always create your own! Furthermore you can quickly change the look of your site by installing a new template - there are numerous places on the web that offer some great looking and functional templates, if you know how to code with html/css and understand very basic php you will be able to create your own look too! The initial learning curve maybe pretty steep, however hopefully the following resources will provide you with the information you need to side step the some of the trouble pitfalls i had! Which Joomla version to use?
1.5 is the latest version - extremely flexible, not all existing components, modules work with 1.5. If you are a joomla new comer looking for a straight forward CMS then this option is probably best. 1.0.x has over 2000+ extensions available for it, if your are a newcomer but want to create a CMS with lots of options than this probably the best solution for at least the next six months, untill it is supported more. Need to ask questions about Joomla?
Goto the Joomla Forums - http://forum.joomla.org/ Neet a list of some 2000+ Joomla Extensions
Goto the Joomla Extension Directory - http://extensions.joomla.org/ Essential Extensions
Joomlxplorer - File manager for Joomla
JCE Editor - Upgraded WYSIWYG editor
Artio SEF - SEO plugin for Joomla
Virtuemart - Shopping Cart
Community Builder - For creating social networks
JoomCloner - Backup/Clone/move your joomla site Good Joomla Tutorials
http://www.absalom.biz/tutorials/Mambo_Template_Tutorial.html
http://www.churchministriesonline.com/Tutorials/Template_Creation.html
http://www.compassdesigns.net Good Joomla Template
Rockettheme - http://www.rocketheme.com
Joomlart - http://www.joomlart.com
Joomlajet - http://www.joomlajet.com
Templateplazza - http://www.templateplazza.com
Yootheme - http://www.yootheme.com Web Hosting
Make sure you get hosting that has a one click joomla install - personally i would recommend hosting that comes with the cpanel interface and "Fantastico" this usually include the one click feature. Hope that helps! |
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