I am thinking of building a Joomla site. Here's my plan to start out... First I'm going to create articles on my topic and display them on the website (I'm hoping this will help with the initial adding of content) Then I'll create a forum (I know that this probably won't work out very well on it's own starting out if I just build a forum) Add an amazon store and some advertisements Get it hosted with a domain name Then possibly a blog as well Do you think Joomla would be a good tool for starting out on this and are there any resources that you think is a must to help with Joomla and SEO? I'm not planning to have this done and up and running straight away as it would be something I do in my spare time however I'd like to try to build a site as search engine friendly as possible and don't have time enough to learn complex coding.
With Joomla, you don't need to learn any kinds of coding. There are thousands of extensions that can help you do anything you want using Joomla. Whatever you have described above is possible in Joomla. First start building the website and try to search for the extensions in the official extension directory of Joomla.
if you are thinking to use Joomla then start with Joomla 1.7, do not use older version, joomla 1.7 is a great tools for mini sites, you will love this cms.
I agree,start with Joomla 1.7 easy for you to control it with blog, contents, 4rum and oscommecre SHOP. try to use Joomla with some templates, skin free at JOOMQUERY.COM goodluck
Thats great EcoGecko! Joomla 1.7 has some big improvements in ACL, nested categories and built-in SEO features. Using this version is a good experience and ease. Thanks.
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can anyone tell me what to build with joomla other than article site?If i want to develop some service site ,how can i do achieve it ?
and here is another view. joomla 1.5 rocks and all of the extensions which there are many are stable and work well. Sure you can go with version 1.7 but you may find more bugs than you would like to fix.
I have used both Joomla 1.5 & 1.7, both works pretty well. I am building newer sites with Joomla 1.7. For SEO I use, (pretty good plugin IMO) http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/10134
i have gone to a very good seminar to learn building joomla sites take a good book and spend time.. and you will able to make every idea you have... a joomla site!
ohhh its good idea.when you will create website in joomla kindly make your website search engine friendly through SH404SEF component