Learn How to Design and Manage Joomla Websites

 To design Joomla websites, you only need to follow 3 simple steps. While many Joomla website designers try to over-complicate the process, it should not be necessarily so. 

Without wasting your time and mine, here are the three steps that you have to take to create Joomla websites quickly and easily. You should note, however, that these are sequential steps. This means that you have to do the first one first, followed by second, etc. While you may sometimes, be able to still build a Joomla site without actually following some of these steps sequentially, it is best not to do so. You will see the why as we move along. 

So, here is what you need to do:

1. Install Joomla: Well, you can’t actually do anything until after you install Joomla on your website. There are a number of ways to do this.
   
   One of the most common two is to install the CMS using “Fantastico”, a tool that may be available on your Joomla web hosting account’s Control Panel. This takes about 3 minutes at the most and is the simplest and easiest way of installing Joomla.
   
   The other way is to install it manually. This requires you to upload the Joomla installation package on your website. You will then follow the instructions to install it from there.
2. Configure Joomla: After successfully installing Joomla, you can now login to the Joomla Admin area or Backend to configure it. The directory of the admin area is the /administrator directory of your Joomla site. Therefore, if-for example- you installed Joomla on mywebsite.com, your admin area will be mywebsite.com/administrator .
   
   Once you login, select the “Site” tab on the far left and click on the “Global Configuration” link. Follow the instructions here to configure your site, server and system information. This may take you anything from 3 to 10 minutes to finish.
   
   
3. Create Joomla Content: The next necessary step to designing your Joomla website is to create your content sections, categories and content items or pages.

The content sections are the broadest divisions of content on your Joomla site. The categories are the sub-divisions of content for each section.

The content items, pages or articles (as they are variously called) are the pieces of content that are posted under each category. For example, to find your “How to Design a Joomla Website” article or page on your website, I may have to go to the CMS section, select the Joomla Category and there I will find the “How to Design Joomla Websites” article or page.

This content hierarchy will look like this:

Section ====> Category ===> Content Item/Web Page.

It is just a very simple and organized way of managing your content in Joomla.

Do note that you can have as many content sections, categories or content pages as you want. It is virtually unlimited. So, whether you are designing a Joomla article directory or just a simple niche website, you will still find that the Joomla CMS will serve your purpose all the same.

And, since I know that many of you (like me) are visual learners (that is, you are more "I saw it on TV" than "I read it in the papers" type), I have created a little video for you so that you can watch as I demonstrate how all this works. 

Good enough? Ok, here you go...

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