How to start building the website in joomla

Discussion in 'Joomla' started by richardm55, Oct 3, 2012.

  1. #1
    I don't really know how to start in building my website in Joomla. Is any specific order I must do this?
    Must I chose any template first or I can do it afterwards? Or I should write all content first, gather all articles for all pages, and other elements of pages and maybe then I should sort them out?

    I hope someone will help me in this. Thank in advance.
     
    richardm55, Oct 3, 2012 IP
  2. Saskia Bader

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    Hi, you don't have to do it in any particular order but I recommend that you do the basic website set-up first (basic settings, design, plugins you want to use...) so you can add the content bit by bit afterwards while having a presentable and fully functional website already. If you need help with some things inside Joomla, there are many step-by-step video tutorials and other material available online that you can use to get started quicker. Just search for "Joomla <your task here> tutorial" in a search engine. Hope I could help.
     
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    richardm55 Active Member

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    Thank you for your comment. You mean basic set-up: name of website and something like that, design? you mean menu and website structure? I will look for youtube tutorial then.
     
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    Hi, Brother

    I used joomla for a few year, but after I moved to word press, joomla is very low and have many disadvantage.
    Would you consider to wordpress.

    Word Press:
    - Small size of script
    - SEO optimization can help your side fast traffic.
    - Structure of development very good.

    Let talk with you next article.

    Sam
     
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  5. richardm55

    richardm55 Active Member

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    Firstly, I am not your brother, mate. So please don't call me like that.
    Secondly, I prefer to stay with joomla for a while. I feel it is more advanced than wordpress. I think wordpress is overrated. I am looking for easy program but more stable and richer functionally. I don't know none of them good enough to make right choice but well I feel joomla is better for me. Maybe in future I will change my mind.
    Which script do you mean? CSM has a lot of files
    I think joomla has also some tools for SEO optimazation
    And joomla has a lot of tools and resources for website development.
     
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    I am reading some tutorials about joomla now and I will start to build my new website in it very soon.
     
    richardm55, Oct 12, 2012 IP
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    richardm55 Active Member

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    I have read all tutorials I have and I am going to start building my website in joomla today. I will see how I can put the theory into practice.
     
    richardm55, Oct 28, 2012 IP
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    First I will stick with older version 2.5.7 which has better support right now. For sure, later I will switch over into version 3.x
     
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    Yes, you re right, only 70 extensions are ported to 3.0 for now, and most of them are on legacy mode. Switching from 2.5 to 3.x is really an adventure :D
     
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    Joomla seems advanced to me too, but I always have some kind of problem with it - its just not that user friendly.

    But anyway - to answer your question, it is best to setup the website as the other person said - but also if you can get your content going as much as possible, do it - as you wont be able to rank in Google these days by having crappy content.
     
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    Thank you for your nice valuable comment. I am all right with joomla now. I have read some good tutorials about joomla v2.x so this weekend I am going to build my new website in joomla.
     
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    There are plenty of tutorials out there, just do a quick Google search, or even YouTube.
     
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    Nothing new, mate. I think the most people know that.
     
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    The best option you have is to visit youtube and watch the basic tutorials to build a website in joomla.
     
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    Youtube tutorials don't say everything we need to know but it is good source of info for beginning.
     
    richardm55, Nov 8, 2012 IP