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.