Why You Should Use A Easy Joomla Tutorial
There are a lot of good reasons to use a easy joomla tutorial. Unless you’ve installed and worked with a CMS before, this can get more than a little confusing. As well as having to install joomla the in the correct manner (without unzipping the file contents), but you have to worry about altering file permissions, setting up a database, and then figuring out the administration section of joomla. With a joomla tutorial, the sense of the unknown is removed.
Joomla is not a hard content management system to master, but it can be difficult when you aren’t sure of the way a database driven site works, and the way things are organized how do you tell the difference between a module and a component, and do you really need to know? Like anything, you can probably explore things, learning as you go. But when it comes to getting your site running really well, it helps to know what you’re doing.
Say you might want to set up search engine friendly URLS. Joomla comes with a built-in search engine optimization function, but you need to set it up in admin. To do that you’ll need to set up the htaccess file. But the problem with the joomla search engine URL rewriter is that it still doesn’t create very good url’s. You’ll get a much better effect from choosing one of the addons that were created by the joomla community. There is a number of them to choose from. joomla seo can be achieved by using Artio, Open SEF, SH404 SEF, SerraBiz SEF, or J Promoter. Most of these you don’t have to pay for, some carry a small charge.
An advantage with Joomla is the huge number of templates you can download - many of them free. You can get paid templates as well - it makes it a bit hard to choose. One thing I don’t like about some of the template providers is that they have things set up as a subscription based service. Their spiel is that it gives you the the ability to your templates. I think that’s a silly model for providing templates. They are not something that is changed very often unless they are not happy with the one they’ve got But by providing a aesthetic template, and selling it as a standalone product, buyers get a better deal
Date posted: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 9:09 pm | Under category: Software
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