Five simple steps and you get started with your Joomla website. If you are looking for guide lines for developing your own website all you need to do is follow the following five steps;
Step 1 : Outline your website development plan Step 2 : Installation of Joomla via JSAS Step 3 : Joomla templates Step 4 : Constructing and managing Joomla website
Step 5 : Converting JSAS Joomla website to web server
Step 1: Outline your website development plan
First of all ask yourself for whom are you making this website for who is going to be the visitor of your site.
Who will be your target audience?
What interests your target audience?
The content you intend to provide fulfill the desires and requirements of your target audience?
Take a piece of paper and answer all these questions and jot down all the important points you found and figure out if these will give your audience what they are looking for?
What infra-structure your website should have?
Development of Joomla website plays the very important role in building a Joomla site. Therefore take your time do some surfing and brain storming drawing rough columns and develop the different sections, columns, categories, columns reservations for titles etc. think the best way out of customizing joomla’s content management system.
Navigational designs
Think the best way you want your website to look like.
Where should it’s menu bar reside?
Menu must guide to which pages?
Over all lay out looks like?
You can try different templates according to your requirements and demands. I hope you will find one according to your desire and just in case not, you can always customize and modify Joomla templates according to your requirements.
Interaction
Joomla like always stood up on the bases of its versatile site builder and possesses some unique integrated components which makes your site interactive. Joomla has always been favored by most on the basis of its large number extensions. You too can enhance your site with different add-ons and extensions which you can easily get from Joomla website.
Step 2: Installation of Joomla via JSAS
There are few requirements needed for installation of Joomla, but the good part is if your web host supports Joomla the hosting residence offers will be automatically installed by Joomla.
If we are using windows XP we will use JSAS – Joomla Stand Alone Server to install Joomla on our PC. for the installation process and guide lines one can visit joomla’s website anytime.
Step 3: Joomla templates
For changing the typical Joomla designs one can download Joomla templates. Installing tamplates is easy task and best part is you can change them anytime you want with few clicks. No coding and decoding is required.
Reason why it is easy to change or modify Joomla design and well tackled as compared to the static html is that Joomla use modules for assembling the pages.
Step 4: Constructing and managing Joomla website
Joomla pages are compiled of databases. Joomla has its own way of setting the content. It manages its content in the form of sections which further are divided into categories and further content items. We can construct and destruct these categories, sections and content items according to our websites requirement.
Step 5: Converting JSAS Joomla website to web server
Ok once the home work is done it’s time to take a final step to follow. Time to move local Joomla site from JSAS to web server, for that we have to follow some steps:
1.Make your account, web hosting account 2.Final upload your local JSAS website to webserver 3.Export Joomla database with PHP MyAdmin 4.Import Joomla data base in same order
5. And finally wait for your first time visitor.
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