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Written by Jerry Wijaya
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Friday, 25 December 2009 07:01 |
If the deadline is tight, you have got to design a website quickly with Joomla and you are tired… what can you do? Well, the aim of this article to help you get things done quickly without compromising the quality. Many website designers usually try to overcomplicate the process which make it more time consuming. But if you follow these steps you will be able to get things done much more quicker. Whether you are someone working from home or as part of an established website design service company, you will be able to apply these steps. Without waste any more time here are the steps.
- There are various ways to do this. One of the most common way is to install it using something called Fantastico that provided by most hosting companies. You would have to login to the Cpanel first. This will take about 3 minutes and is the simplest and easiest way of installing Joomla.
- After installing Joomla you can login to the Joomla Admin section or control panel. The directory is called administrator and is located in the root folder. You need enter your website’s domain and then the administrator folder name to access it. Once you are in the admin section, select the "Site" tab on left and click on the "Global Configuration" link. Follow the instructions to configure your website.
- The next important step is to create your content, categories and content pages. The content sections are the like the divisions of your Joomla site; the categories are the sub-divisions for each section; the content items, pages or articles are the pieces of content that are placed under each category. It’s built this way because the content will be organized better and easier to find. The system allows you to add as many content sections, categories or content pages as you want.
- The menu navigation system is divided into categories. You may have a menu category for your new items, another one for your news section and even another for your best items. And, under each category you will have menu items. You will have one menu item that links to your top pages, another menu item that links to your affiliate products page; and yet still another one that points to your forum or discussion group.
- One good reason to choose Joomla for websites is that you can customize it. So you can modify the template and rearrange the modules in any way you want to make your site more unique. You can use an redesigned template as a starting point and modify it according to your needs.
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Written by Jerry Wijaya
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 06:28 |
Have you just finished building your brand new Joomla website? Now, what you need is traffic. Building a quality website is just the beginning; if you want it to really work for you, then you will need to get it noticed. There are many different ways drive traffic to a brand new website. Fortunately there are free methods as well as paid methods, and the following methods fits in both categories.
1. Social bookmarking has been around for a number of years now and it’s proven to be an effective way to drive traffic to a website. Not only that, it will help the search engines find your site more quicker. Try to avoid bookmarking the same article more than once because that could get your account banned from the social bookmarking sites. Bookmark five per day at the most. If your content is good you will see good results very quickly. Some of these sites are followed, which means your links will add SEO benefit to your site.
2. Directory submission is something that a new website owner must do. Submitting your website to web directories will help increasing the number of links to your website as well as setting up a good foundation. The search engines want to see high and low value links in a website’s link profile, so don’t underestimate the usefulness of this task. You can get a list of hundreds of good directories from a few web sources. With this list and a good automatic directory submission tool, you will be able gain hundreds of back links to your website quickly and effectively.
3. If you enjoy writing articles about your business then you will be ahead of many people. You don’t have to be great in English to write articles for SEO or traffic. Anybody with basic English skill will be able to take advantage of article marketing. There are two ways of using articles. One is to submit to article directories and get the traffic from those sites. Two is to put the articles on your own website, ideally on a blog. To get the maximum benefits from writing articles you need to be patience and actually enjoy writing about what you are doing. |
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Written by Jerry Wijaya
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 01:21 |
So you need a website for your business but not sure which platform/CMS to choose? Well, you may or may not know this but there are actually plenty of options out there right now. Open source CMS like Joomla and Wordpress have really changed the way that web designers build websites. If you have been looking on the net you will find many freelance web design services offer website design to business for very cheap prices. They can do this thanks to the powerful features of Joomla. I will talk about some of advantages of this CMS system and why it’s good for business websites.
First, Joomla is an award-winning and free content management system(CMS) that provides its users with the ability to add, edit and delete content quickly without the technical knowledge of HTML and CSS. This benefits both the designer and owner of the website. The designer can build the website in less time and the owner can easily change and add more contents without ever learning a line of HTML. Anybody with basic computer skills can manage a Joomla website. So if you are a business person you will save time and money in the long run. The benefit of being able to take control of your own website is vital for any businesses.
Because Joomla is open source CMS, you can easily find help on the internet without hiring a professional web programmer. Places like forums, blogs and fan sites will have the answers to any questions you might have. If you still feel uncomfortable about it you can find books and video tutorials on Joomla. Right now, there are millions of websites are powered by Joomla, whether it’s small or large businesses. Joomla offers powerful features and flexibilities to its users, making even complex websites easy to build and manage. It can certainly grow along with your business. If you have tight budget right now you may want to do as much work yourself as possible, and Joomla allows you to do just that. With the help its template system you can change the look of your website quickly even if you are not a web designer.
Joomla does a fantastic job of managing the web content to make a business successful. If you are in the process of looking for a website then you should some time exploring Joomla and see what it really do for you.
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