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Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
Ready to roll up your sleeves and start your first Joomla site? Never done it before, but don't have a lot of time to spare? You need the following:
- A domain name (www.flyingpigs.com) or subdomain (demo.flyingpigs.com) Joomla needs a domain or subdomain defined on set-up.
- A website host that supports Joomla, CPanel and Fantastico script installer. Fantastico is a browser-based tool that enables a "push button" install of Joomla. You can have your first Joomla site up and running within minutes of purchasing a new hosting package with Fantastico. I recommend the hosting company Bluehost.com though there are many other hosts out there that are just as good if not better or cheaper. Do your research!
- FTP client like "FTP Voyager." Chances are, at some point, you'll want to upload to or download files from your host.
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
Why Joomla?
- 180,000 Web developers registered on the forums (as of March 2008) where non-technical and hard core developers alike share code, fixes and
help eachother. It's disturbingly Utopian.
- Push button installation using a host that offers "Cpanel and Fantastico"
- Maintenance tools with big, clear buttons that make changing content really unintimidating for
non-technical, sometimes utterly Web-phobic administrators (my clients run the gamut from very savvy to very
resistant)
- 2880+ Components, Modules and Plugins that make your site do ... way more than you ever need.
- Joomlancers.com - amazing resource for Joomla programmers ready to pounce on your project or pieces of
projects. Looks like 50+ projects per day get posted there. It's hoppin.
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