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    Setup Your Joomla 2.5.X Website From Scratch
    Setup Your Joomla 2.5.X Website From Scratch
    Setup Your Joomla 2.5.X Website From Scratch
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    Setup Your Joomla 2.5.X Website From Scratch

    By Ivan Bayross

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    This book covers all aspects of setting up a Joomla website on any web host of your choice.

    The chapters are richly sprinkled with grabbed screens and simple, easy to follow, instructions so that even a novice can install, configure and finally skin a Joomla website.

    After your Joomla website has been setup successfully, you learn how to add functionality to your website that does not exist in the Joomla core, using several free plugins.

    Should you wish to add a shopping cart and connect the shopping cart to a payment gateway you can.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIvan Bayross
    Release dateJun 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301209330
    Setup Your Joomla 2.5.X Website From Scratch
    Author

    Ivan Bayross

    My name is Ivan Bayross, I'm Gemini/Cancer cusp born.A 61 year old techno geek and published author.Here is what's been at the center of my world for the past 30 odd years:I was born, grew up, and live in Mumbai, with my wife Cynthia and our daughter Chriselle. Mumbai is the commerce capital of the sub-continent called - India.Did my M.Tech in Manchester U.K. where I specialized in DBMS.Did a diploma in Business Management from the same place.Own a software development and export house located at Vile Parle East, a suburb of Mumbai, along with my wife Cynthia, where we craft commercial applications using Open source and Microsoft tools and technologies.I have written and published 70 books most of them focused on commercial application development using Microsoft and Open Source tools and technologies.To know what books I've written and published do take get a quick look at: http://www.ivanbayross.com/mybooks.htmlI guest lecture at a couple of MBA and Engineering colleges in Mumbai. Today, it's guest lecturing that gives me my greatest satisfaction.

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      Setup Your Joomla 2.5.X Website From Scratch - Ivan Bayross

      Foreword

      Joomla is a very mature, extremely well supported, open source, Content Management System (CMS) available for free download and use to everyone.

      Joomla CMS has made the building of Internet driven applications, websites, portals, very simple. Using Joomla, people with limited programming skills, can setup and maintain excellent websites that deliver services, products or just plain information to site visitors almost effortlessly.

      There is a learning curve for Joomla, but it’s definitely not a steep one. Anyone who can use an editor like Microsoft Word competently ought to be able to install, setup, configure and use Joomla successfully.

      This E-Book has been written so that anyone can successfully install setup, configure and use Joomla on any web host of their choice.

      In each section there is a step-by-step tutorial that walks you through whatever you have to do. The tutorial is built using a screen grab for every step of the way. The screen grab shows what you will see on your own computer screen when working through the material with an explanation of what you must do to achieve a defined goal.

      Hence, all you have to do is to work through the material to successfully install, setup, configure and use Joomla on any web host of your choice.

      This book covers the structure of a standard five page website. The pages being:

      Home

      About Us

      Contact Us ( i.e. A contact us form plus the use of CAPTCHA )

      Privacy Policy

      Disclaimer

      The E-book then goes on to explain how this website structure can be crafted using the built in tools of Joomla CMS.

      All resources required when structuring the above five pages, such as:

      A Favicon

      A Logo

      Images

      Lorem Ipsum text snippets

      Additional Joomla User templates

      And more

      Is available for – Free Download, this will definitely help speed up your Joomla learning curve quite a bit.

      If you need any extra help while working your way through this material I encourage you to create your account on www.opensourcevarsity.com access its Joomla tutorials and use its excellent tech forum to post your queries. The tech forum is a really helpful community who are willing to help.

      I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the two people who proof read my material, fix my typos, ensure that the diagrams in each section are numbered correctly, ensure that page numbers were correct, create the book index, and take perfect care of so many vital manuscript issues plus consistently support and encourage me:

      Kavita and Meher, you both are the wind beneath my wings.

      I am forever grateful.

      Finally and most importantly I need to thank my wife Cynthia who always encouraged me whenever I thought that I would never get a manuscript ready for publishing. You’ve always helped keep my feet planted firmly on the ground, while you pushed me to reach up as far as I can, in you I’m truly blessed.

      Ch 01 - What Is Joomla?

      How Joomla Works – A Visual

      Diagram 01.1

      The diagram above is a simple visual representation of how Joomla works. The website owner / administrator, logs in to the Joomla Admin user interface, sometimes called the Joomla Admin Back end. The Joomla Admin interface is what the Joomla owner / administrator uses to create articles in Joomla. Add images, video or audio to these articles and save them to the Joomla database tables. Joomla treats each individual web page as an article.

      When a visitor’s Browser requests for a web page, Joomla considers this as a request for a specific article. The Joomla CMS will then:

      Reach into its database tables

      Pickup the article’s content placed there earlier on by the website owner / administrator

      Then Joomla will pick up the default website template set

      Place the article content within this template

      Finally deliver properly formatted content within the template to the visitor’s Browser

      The visitor then Sees the web page requested for.

      Joomla is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS). Joomla empowers you to build a large interactive Web site, a Forum, a Blog, a News site, An E-shop, bound to a shopping cart and multiple payment gateways, Powerful online applications and more.

      Among Joomla's best features are is its ease-of-use and extensibility. This has made Joomla the most widely used CMS on the Internet. It's arguably the most popular CMS used to build websites and tons of other stuff that is driven via the Internet.

      I think that best of all, Joomla being an open source solution, it is available free of cost to everyone.

      What's A Content Management System (CMS)?

      A content management system is software that keeps perfect track of every bit of content on a Web site. This is pretty much like a local public library keeps track of all its books and how it stores them and how it loans them out to individuals to read.

      Web site content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, just about anything you can think of.

      A major advantage of using a CMS to build your website or portal is that it requires almost no serious technical skill or knowledge to install, manage and use. It’s the CMS that manages the acceptance and delivery of all the web site content. Hence as website owner you do not have to be overly concerned or highly technically skilled to do this.

      Can Joomla Help Me When I Have To Build A Website For A Client?

      Joomla is specifically designed to be remarkably easy to install and set up. This is great because many people who opt to use Joomla do not have a great deal of technical skills. Many Web hosting services offer a single-click install of Joomla CMS. This helps anyone get their new websites up and running in just a few minutes without a load of technical stress.

      Joomla uses a template when it delivers web site content to a site visitors Browser. It’s the Joomla template that determines the website’s look and feel.

      Joomla templates are pretty easy to construct if you have some design and HTML / CSS / JavaScript / PHP coding skills. Multiple templates can be used by Joomla when it delivers the content of various web site pages.

      There are a huge number of websites that offer Joomla templates. A ton of them offer such templates completely free of cost. Many of these templates look stunning.

      If you just cannot find a suitable template for your Joomla driven website from among the templates offered free of cost, there are - Premium Joomla Template - sites as well. These templates are offered at very attractive ( modest ) prices.

      Joomla's ease of use helps Web designers to turn into Web developers with the least pain. Web designers can now craft beautiful, full featured, interactive web sites for their clients simply by getting competent in downloading, installing, configuring and using Joomla.

      Then with really minimal instructions they can transfer day to day, website content changes to their clients themselves. Hence, clients get empowered to Manage their websites which results in a definite reduction in the cost of ownership and maintenance for clients. A win:win for everyone.

      Joomla CMS Extensions

      If a client needs special functionality for their Joomla CMS driven website such as:

      Social Networking

      Blogging

      A Forum ( Public or Private )

      An E-Commerce solution

      A News delivery site

      And tons more

      You will discover that Joomla is highly extensible.

      There are thousands of Joomla extensions ( most available for free under the GPL license ) that are available in the Joomla Extensions Directory that will help deliver all of the above functionality to the Joomla website.

      Some of these extensions are Commercial but very modestly priced for the functionality, ease of use, and support, that they bring to the Joomla website in which they are installed and configured for use.

      Why Is Everyone So Excited About Joomla?

      It’s completely free to use

      Is very easy to install, configure, use and extend

      Support all media types in multiple formats 

      Supports multiple languages. Deliver website content in your native language to site visitors

      Has a built in Contact form with CAPTCHA for anti Spam

      Built in Syndication and Newsfeed management

      Text editor with a multitude of options. Format your articles like you do in MS Word 

      Excellent support for mobile devices - iPhone, iPad and Android devices

      Joomla driven content can be displayed in beautiful templates, which are completely independent of the Joomla CMS core 

      Tons of Joomla extensions available today and growing constantly. You're only limited by your imagination on what you can do with Joomla.

      What Can I Build With Joomla?

      A Blog

      Portals

      E-commerce site - Complete with a shopping cart and connection to multiple payment gateways

      News sites

      Personal pages

      Small company sites

      Huge corporate sites

      Government sites

      Online reservations systems

      And so on

      Ch 02 - What is cPanel?

      cPanel is a fully featured popular, web host Account control panel that helps its user to manage all aspects of their domain(s) using any Browser on any web host that supports cPanel.

      cPanel’s graphical user interface, runs in any Browser, and helps make all the tasks of managing a web site ( i.e. a domain ), simple and intuitive to carry out for the website owner.

      Using cPanel, website owners, can manage such tasks as:

      Creating Email Accounts

      Creating FTP Accounts

      Creating new folders on the website

      Adding or Deleting files within folders

      Making a backup of the website

      Creating

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