Content Management Systems (CMS) are the way forward with most web
design, I believe. They offer an unbelievably easy way to create pretty
decent looking websites without the added fuss of having to know indepth
coding. The majority of this is automatically done for you. So, in this
tutorial you are going to learn how to download, install and manipulate
with one of these called Joomla. Another one of these is called Drupal,
which seemingly is better for the more technical aspects but Joomla is
just as good.
In this tutorial you are going to need to download first a program called Wamp, which can be downloaded from this
site.
Once you have done that, you can now download Joomla from
here.
It's completely free and open source. In a few minutes we are going to
start getting to the somewhat difficult things, so I shall be using
photos to illustrate this.
When your Joomla files have been fully
downloaded, you need to extract them to your Wamp folder. By default,
it will have installed to C:\wamp. If you have installed it correctly,
then you
should see the following files:
The folder you are going to extract the Joomla files to is the www
folder, as shown in the above image. For the purpose of this tutorial, I
have created folder called FA Tutorial inside the www folder, and this
is where I am going to extract the Joomla files to.
When this is
finished, you need to make sure that the wamp server is running. To do
this, you need to search for wamp and click on "Start Wamp Server". Wamp
should take a few seconds to be fully ready - the icon will first
appear red, then yellow before turning white, as seen in the below image
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When it has turned fully green, you need to click on it, to bring up this:
Then you are going to click on Localhost, which should automatically open up your browser and take you to this screen-
At this point, you will know if you extracted the Joomla files to the
correct folder, if you have something similar to FA Tutorial, under
"Your Projects", as I do here-
Now, before you do anything with Joomla, you first need to set up the
database. To do this, you need to click on phpmyadmin. From this screen
you need to click on Databases on the top left corner and then type in
the name of the database you want to create, in my case it's going to be
FATutorial -
and then click "Create". Voila! You've just created a database.
When
this is done, you need to navigate back to the localhost, following the
steps above. When you have, you can finally click on FATutorial (or
whatever you may have called it) under Your Projects and finally you get
taken to the Joomla installer.
The first few screens are
relatively easy and unless you want to really pay attention, you can
click next until you get to the database screen, as seen here:
This is why you needed to have a database already set up. For this, the
username is mostly always going to be
root and the
database name
will be whatever you called it in phpmyadmin, in my case fatutorial.
You'll know you have done it correctly when you get taken to the FTTP
step. If you already have a domain name and hosting purchased, with FTTP
set up, you can put the details here so you can FTTP it to the host.
However, since we are running it using wamp on the localhost (i.e. on
this computer rather than over the internet), we can just skip this by
clicking next.
Here is where you put in the site details. In my case the site name is
going to be FATutorial, the email FA@Tutorial.com and the password
fatutorial. The Admin username should be left at admin, just because
it's going to be easier when you get to accessing the admin area. It is a
good idea to also install the sample data, as it will give you an idea
as to how the site will look when it's fully up and running.
This is now the final screen and you just need to delete the install directory before proceeding.
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