Joomla

1. HOST & DOMAIN

2. MYSQL

3.UPLOAD JOOMLA

4.NAVIGATE TO DOMAIN 

5.EDIT BACKEND TEMPLATE/ARTICLES/MENUS

6. OPTIMIZE SITE

7.SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING-- add social bookmarks- Called sexyBookmarks. 

1.To begin Joomla you must have a domain and hosting ready. Purchase domain and create the folder under public_html

Name the folder you want your files in. 

2Once you have the domain and the host then you must create your MYSQL database. Once the database is established, then you can upload your Joomla Zip file. In your CPanel open MYSQL Database Wizard. Create username, database name & password. You must save these passwords- they are very important. 

Once the database is created then start with Joomla.

3.To download the most updated version of Joomla go to Joomla.org. Once you have it downloaded you must make sure it is a Zip file. Click on File and right click compress. This will make your file a Zip file. You don't need to edit or reconfigure any files. Unlike WordPress where you must change your config file first. Once you upload Joomla, then you have to click on that joomla folder and extract or unarchive it. Once it has been extracted meaning all the folders are now visble then you must highlight and move them into your main domain folder which is the root folder. The best way to explain it is that your Joomla zip files come in archived and you have not copy them to the root folder. Once unarchived you can delete the folder. You have to highlight all the files and move them into the root folder directly. I always delete the folder that it came in with so I don't confuse myself. You really don't need that folder anyway. Now that all your files are directly under your domain's root folder then you can you open a new window and put in your domain in the navigation bar. This will bring you to the installation process if you did it correctly. If you did not do this right then it will not come up. So now that it's correct you have to start answering the questions. First one being language, then mysql database information. The next stepis to make up your username & password and click upload sample data, then click uninstall admin files. Side never use Admin as username always make it hard to guess.

4.Once this is completed then you can now navigate to the front and backend of Joomla. Your front end would be www.yourdomain.com Your back end will always be www.yourdomain.com/administrator. After all this you are now ready to edit Templates. Content & layout.

Ready to edit Joomla

5.Now that you are ready to edit your Joomla website, I would do a search for Free or Premium Template. I always look for Free ones because as a beginner you may not want to spend a lot of money on Templates. Do a search for Free Joomla 2.5 or 3.0 templates. The version of Joomla that you are using is very important, not only will your templates not work but your extensions, modules or components won't either unless they are compatible. To upload a template navigate to your admin panel and click on extension manager, there will be a place to upload a file. In Joomla every file that you upload must be in .zip file format. You must zip Templates, Components, extensions and Modules before installing them into Joomla's backend. Once you upload the file then you can go back to Extensions over and click on template manager. You will now see your new template. In order for it to be the main template that your site uses you have to click default on that particular template. Then click on the name of the template and you can add or un add the pages you want to be assigned to this template. This is called your menu selection. You are assigning menus to the proper template. If some of the menus are not checked they will either not show up or they will show up with the template they are assigned to. In Joomla you can assign different templates to show different pages. Unlike WordPress where you can only have one template and thats basically it. Because you have installed the sample data package you now have generic text, categories, articles and modules. If you had not installed the sample data you would have a very empty backend and you would have to create a lot of it yourself. It is not advised to NOT install the sample data. If you have installed a template then you now have to assign all of the modules to a position. Your positions are based on your template. Depending on the template that choose will decide what and how many positions you have. Next you will want to start creating your categories & your articles. Your categories will be the main section that it is associated with. The articles will created and assigned to a category.

6.To optimize your site go into your contrail panel and answer all the descriptions and metadate and meta descriptions. 

7. Social Media Marketing- Set up a Facebook, Linkedin, Stumbleupon, and other social media sites. 

When you make changes to your website, use your sexybookmarks to share with your social sites. 

vCita another awesome great Plugin for WordPress

I was searching for a nice contact form and online scheduling plugin when I found vCita. vCita is probably one of the best if not the most impressive simple plugins I have found in a very long time. vCita is very simple to upload and the settings are even easier. If you have a Business and you would like a contact form or be able to set appointments, charge for services or give consultations either online or over the phone then this is for You. vCita is Free to use for all basic services, but just like any Good plugin they will charge for UpGraded Services.

To upgrade with vCita would definitely be beneficial if you are running a nice size company because the features are worth it.

If you are a Web Developer then it is definitely beneficial for you to sign up as a Web Developer because then you get to upload and install the vCita on to your clients websites hence they need it. If your clients upgrade then you will get paid for every upgrade that your clients sign up for.

Just rolled out I Teach CMS appointment Setter

At I Teach CMS, we can now set appointments to teach You CMS. Please fill out the contact you form or set an appointment and we will call you. I Teach CMS will one day become one of the largest CMS Teaching Schools.

Designing the Right Website for your Business

Creating a website is an exciting endeavor for any business as this would mean that they would be exposed to various ways to market their company for a cheaper price. Furthermore, online marketing has also proved to be very vital today as people would turn to the internet for researching products and services. However, having a website and a good online marketing campaign is not enough to gain the interest of potential customers, it is also important that you have an interesting and user-friendly web design.

According to inc.com, you should think about the first impression that you will give to your visitors. You should contemplate on whether your site is easy to navigate and if it clearly conveys your products and services; if it doesn’t, visitors may lose interest and abandon your site.

For most businesses, it is important to be as simple as they can be with their design—too much creativity is “too much.” People would tend to be turned off with flashy websites cluttered with irrelevant images. Your goal is to not only bring users in your site but also get them to right place. According to a tip from Forbes Magazine, remember that most visitors would come to your site probably knowing what they need and want out of it, so if they get lost since your site is too flashy and they can’t navigate through it, they would leave immediately. It is important to make your website simple and straight to the point.

Let’s say you own a restaurant and you want to build your own website. Make sure that you feature your dishes—customers don’t care about what your chef looks like or hot models stuffing their faces. Customers care about how appetizing your food is and how much they cost; so it’s best to focus on that. According to 1stQebDesigner, facts that should be included in restaurant websites that are often overlooked are the menu in detail, the price, ongoing offers, original and latest photographs, and location with a link to Google maps, parking information and an advanced booking option that works.

When you have a business, you would want your visitors to look professional. Again, simplicity is the key. Use simple colors rather than striking ones that hurt the eyes. There are some cases that websites need some bright colors, but it is generally safe to use calming and cool colors such as shades of blue or green. A fancy website would just look amateur so the website should not be over decorated. Keep images limited and use simple ones as well. With choosing images use only the most relevant to your website and use real ones—which depict real people, businesses and dealings—rather than graphics.

Fancy and flashy is not the answer when designing your website as people would look for something that is easy on the eyes and friendly enough that they can find their way through the site. According to Npresence, among the millions of websites, only a few actually make it big online and these are the professional websites—those that are simple, straight to the point and very informative.

Bio:

Kenneth Sytian is the owner of Web Design Philippines, a web development company who specializes in providing high quality web design, web development, e-commerce development, search engine optimization (SEO), and other online services at affordable rates.

Five WordPress Plugins You're Missing Out On

WordPress is already a full-featured, powerful blogging platform, but to truly take advantage of everything it has to offer, savvy bloggers know to use the best plugins to power-up their site. Unfortunately, even some of the best and most popular plugins go unnoticed by novice bloggers. To help make these new blogs better, here is a list of five of the most all-around useful plugins for WordPress.

All in One SEO Pack

Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the best methods for bringing new readers to your blog, but the details of WordPress e-commerce sites, Google Analytics and other SEO tools can be daunting for new users. This plugin automates most of the process, allowing you to tailor your design and content, your links and your URLs to direct search engine traffic where you want it: your blog. Novices will also appreciate the user interface which automates most functions.

Add This

Add This uses an easy widget to automate sharing for your blog's visitors. The widget appears on your blog's sidebar and offers visitors the ability to share your content through over 330 popular social networking sites. Visitors can use your widget to subscribe to an Add This account for stats and other information. Best of all, this plugin "just works" and requires little to no configuration by the blog administrator. 

Feedburner

RSS remains one of the most popular ways to access content online, and Feedburner can help make the excellent Wordpress RSS features even better. A Feedburner-based feed will be accessible to almost any reader out there, and visitors will be able to seamlessly add your feed to their readers without any problems. Subscribers to your old feed will be redirected to the new version. Under the hood, Feedburner provides analytics so you can see how many people are reading your feed.

WASABI Related Posts

If you've pulled in a reader with great blog content, you want to keep them reading more. This plugin helps you keep visitors on your blog by offering them a selection of related content at the bottom of your posts. WASABI presents related posts in a neatly-formatted, bulleted list, and works out of the box without major configuration by the blogger. 

Akismet

Spam comments are a blogger's nightmare, but this plugin can eliminate this problem with ease. Akismet checks comments on your blog against the Akismet database and eliminates anything that looks like spam. Even better, the plugin actually gets better over time as the database improves. With less spam, your blog can look forward to a better PageRank and more traffic.

Plugins like these five are a WordPress blogger's best friend. Whether they automate common administrative tasks or improve the reading and sharing experience for your readers, they all serve one basic purpose: to improve your WordPress blog and bring more readers to your content. If your blog is still missing out on these useful plugins, don't waste any more time, and give them a try.

This post was written by Aubrey Phelps, a writer for Fibernet. In her spare time, she loves fishing and hiking with family.  

Blogging For SEO

Many people are now blogging and exchanging Articles for web placement.
There are many advantages to Blogging. For one it creates content and it allows a marketer to get their information out as well as links to their product or service.
In many cases knowledge and education can help a consumer choose a product wisely. Today Google can place a Page Rank and have the authority to optimize your web site based numerous variations. Because of Googles Algorithm bloggers have no other choice then try to put their expert blogs on High page ranking websites. If you choose to use an affiliate network to market your product then you may be able to avoid the whole SEO formula. In many cases this is not feasible nor will it organically optimize your site. In the SEO world this is considered to be a white hat option, meaning it is allowed or approved by Google.

White hat is a term for allowed or Good Business practices. Poor business practices would be spamming a message board or adding no visual links to your page to get rankings.
Today the Blogging industry has grown rapidly. Another term for Bloggers could be Content Writers or Content Specialist. I have found that I like to incorporate both my own Blogging and other bloggers for a different insight in content.

There are many blogging websites out there, there are free ones and there are paid ones. I always focus on the Free ones.

I have found a couple that I use and I would like to share them with you.


http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/
http://myblogguest.com
http://www.bloggerrequest.com
http://www.guestr.com

If you have any sites that you would like to add please list them in the comments...






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I can't believe some of the stuff that I've seen. Here are some of the nearly criminal acts my clients were subjected to before they hired me:

• Web designers holding their clients hostage!
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• Innocent business owners buy expensive, beautiful websites that nobody will ever find!
  Hard-working business owners who are not wise to the ways of the web get the shaft when they spend a lot of money on an expensive web design that does nothing for them in search engine listings. A search expert must then be hired at even greater expense!
• Designers who are talented at design—and nothing else!
  Clients have needlessly suffered web designers who are talented and skilled in design, but who are disorganized or lack proper customer service skills.
• Where's the dang buy button? What am I supposed to do?
  Inexperienced folks trying to make it in online business hire web designers who create a website that is cool but doesn't sell a thing.

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2. How to get the right web hosting, which is a major factor in whether or not you experience smooth sailing or a bumpy, frustrating ride.
3. Understand what a CMS is and why you want one, because you don't want to get locked into being nickel-and-dimed over updates to your website.
4. How to hire the right web designer for the job, so that you don't get ripped off and your business succeeds online for a reasonable investment.

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Find out the 14 "What Else" qualities your web designer should have on page 22.
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BuddyPress Group Email Subscription

I just found this awesome plugin for Buddy press. 

BuddyPress Group Email Subscription 

http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

This is a Great plugin for Buddy Press groups. Once you activate it you can then decide how people in the group can get emails pertaining to the Group Posts. I just allowed all options and I will allow my members to decide how they want to subscribe to posts. To see how This works you can view my example under groups. Subscribe to one of the groups and once you are a member you can click on the email to check how you would like to subscribe to group posts.  

First things for SEO

Of course SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.
In order for your website to be Optimized it actually needs to be submitted to the search engines.
The first thing I suggest is to create a generic email address that you would only use for spam email. You are going to get tons of spam email once you start submitting your URL. Your URL is www.yurdomain.com. If you have to submit your URL so the web crawlers can index it.
Now there are many Search Engines out there, you may think Yahoo, Bing &  Google are the only ones, but they are not.
Ok so now that you have a generic email address made up now you can do a search for "Free URL Submissions." Go to your search engine of choice and put in "Free URL Submissions."
You will find a bunch come up.
Submit express is the first one that came up for me.
http://www.submitexpress.com/free-submission.html
But I'm not going to use this one because it asked for my phone number. I am not giving that out. You will get tons of calls.
So this is my second website that came up.
http://www.free-url-submission.com
I submitted my domain to this one because if you notice it had a ton of search engines that it will be submitted to all in one shot. You can submit your URL to as many as you want. From what I learned it only has to be submitted to a search engine maybe once a year. So I will try to submit to as many Free ones as I can. Then maybe I will do this again in a year from now. This particular website said it submitted my site to 140 search engines. That's a lot of search engines. My main focus would be to make sure that all the major ones were submitted to like google, yahoo, Bing etc...

Now the second SEO suggestion I would give you is to submit your website to Free Press release websites. Now these websites ask you to create an article that is rather lengthy.
So in my search engine I put in " Free Press release Submission, " This particular site has come up in the past and I have used it before http://www.prlog.org/.
Make sure you find a Free Submission site. There are too many free sites out there for you to have to use a paid site. Now after you've been in business for quite some time then maybe you want to do some due diligence in finding a good paid one, but for now this will do.

Once you have created a Great article that will call a Description of your site, then you should save it. Make sure to save everything. In Online Marketing & Advertising you will be asked to always describe or fill out information about you or your company.

So now you have a nice description of your company, you can submit it to as many Free Press release submission sites as you wish.

The next thing I would advise is do a search for "Free classifieds submission." There are many of them out there. Of course each time you go to a new site then you always have to sign up and create an account. For anything like this I would always use your generic spam email address.

Buddy Press

Buddy Press is Such a really Cool Free Plug in for WordPress. Buddy Press is such a simple way to create a community in your WordPress website. I was very surprised at just how to easy it was. To install I would log in to you your WordPress site ex www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin then go to plugins, and add new. I would search for Buddy Press and it should be the first one that shows up in the listings. I have don't it the other way and downloaded the file from WordPress, zipped it and uploaded it myself but for some reason it didn't work. So for now on I always upload Buddy Press from inside the admin plugins add new button.

Once you install Buddy Press you do need to create and or save your settings.
The cool thing about this plug in is that Buddy Press gives developers the framework so they can create add-on plugins for Buddy Press. If you search Buddy Press  plugins you will see that they have over 485 to choose from. I have chosen some simple ones that just compliment my websites.

I have created community websites like Chatz247, Mom and Baby Magazine and Mommy Networkers.