Joomla Cheat Sheet to Make a Website
Want to use Joomla to make a website? Joomla to enhanced a domain name and build value by making a website. Sticky content and updated articles using a text-driven keyword focused engine makes a full (not a mini) website. Joomla is a free open source software domain owners can use with basic editing skills.
Test the Joomla Demo first. Browse online for free Joomla templates.
Print this article or use it as a checklist to make a WYSIWYG assisted web page with one of the best site making tools webmasters can utilize. Once a domainer knows the steps, any site becomes a matter of keystrokes and administration interface manipulation. Use the Joomla forum when in doubt.
1. Install Joomla
Download the source code application zip files or login to your hosting account and initialize Joomla installation. Joomla is one of the pioneer content management systems with highly efficient text and article publishing tools.
At the installation layer, build the Joomla database, assign passwords, and build the site manager Joomla site administration profile.
2. Unpark servers, redirect masked forward
This is done at the domain registrar for the domain name. If you are not using a subdomain or a separate hosting account, assign the settings of the domain functionality to find the destination landing page of the Joomla application.
3. Replace Joomla’s default Web Page message with your domain message and section greeting. Sections are master categories that organize Joomla articles. Categories are division of Sections. Plot these with pencil and paper.
Replace Joomla FrontPage message with your domain message and section greeting. This can include nicknames, slang, and sets the tone for readers to see what level the text is. This can be changed as often as you like.
4. Replace global configuration setting with your Domain Name
In the Admin interface, navigate to the Global Configuration setting. Edit the text. This will show up in the blue frame of the Explorer window in the browser.
5a. Make custom logo using Cooltext.com.com.
Shrink text to fit banner footprint, or use basic Cooltext generated .jpg to make further editions to the graphic for a fine tuned logo presence.
5.b. Replace Joomla logo with custom logo.
Introduce logo graphic to various levels of the interface where they apply.
6. Mockup 3 main headers (PNG’s) and ad graphics for sponsor ads.
Copy and save the PNG file to your desktop to get file size attributes in pixels. Then convert to a .jpg and edit. Then save as a PNG again to upload to the file manager inside the appropriate template files.
7. Upload 3 main header graphics
Navigate to proper place in the template files in the file manager. Delete placeholders @template/images/header.
8. Write text for 5 newsflashes
Newsflashes are succinct blurbs that alternate inside the browser for quick text bites. Add or edit content inside the admin menu using the Joomla category for Newflashes.
9. Write Text for 6-7 Original Text Stories
These can be done while the webmaster or domain owner is waiting for installation. Using article template files and search and replacing keywords per website domain name can make multiple Joomla site launches easy.
Use 2 news stories, one site review, one “about us” introduction story, and then three translations of current features stories touching your field or topic. Rewrite them in your own words and link back to the source material.
10. Replace OSM ad client accounts and pictures w/substitutes
Default will feature fruit or general images. Navigate to banners area and edit client data or add a new client and input images. Select these ads in the OSM banner and advertisement sections. Make new “customers” for your contact ads.
11. Edit 4 text ads (advertisement module) to reflect putative ad code.
If you can’t get code from Adsense for your domain name or don’t have it yet, edit the code furnished to reflect keywords, topics, offers and likely ad text from your site’s keyword generator. This can help proof the site.
12. Unpublish non domain specific resources .
Many Joomla module defaults will simply not apply to your site concept or design. Delete key concepts/irrelevant resources. They can be re-introduced later as needed.
13. Edit poll/add poll module to reflect domain specific content matter
Use a creative time to pencil out a fun survey question and funny poll answers. Joomla offers a small window but makes a site look extremely complete with these multiple features.
14. Compare meta tag & keywords to meta tags for domain forward entry.
Navigate to the appropriate Admin areas inside the menu. Use this tool as a way to furnish key data to Google search result and main site info areas.
15. Verify Masked Domain Resolution to new web site’s public url
Make sure when you type in the domain name, the masked domain shows with the new Joomla landing page. Visually check how the words look against featured front page text.
16. Archive sample Joomla data to archives, add additional keywords to existing stories.
Archiving and deleting get rid of things you don’t want and can’t use.
17. Edit header 1, header2, header 3
These are the file names of the main three graphics that alternate in the background of the landing page banner area.
Navigate to the theme area in the file menu and find the graphics for the header image. Substitute the new ones and and in a separate window test them for a fit. Using a one shade block image as the lighter header mask can lighten the area within the graphic and result in a lighter shade using th default theme..
18. Add Graphics.
Replace the library of standard buttons with custom colors or icons with a special feel. The Media Manager inside Joomla handles all images. Upload topical images and select those directories you chose for the images inside the categories and sections for those types of stories and articles.
19. Edit the Joomla Wrapper.
The Wrapper module allows a feature of an entire other site within the current site. Pick a great recommendation site or sister site to your topic and add commentary and criticisms, tips and feedback. Reward visitors with a best of breed snapshot of a another great site.
20. Edit ‘home”.
Navigate to the home page in the text editing menu (the Frontpage) and create the first text eyeballs will see when your Joomla website loads in a visitor’s browser.
21. Edit weblink boilerplate.
Edit the test in the weblink area after making categories for them. Categories can be functional or topical, i.e. “New sources”, or (subject related )Gossip Blogs. Furnish about ten entries at least to make custom resource web directory for your site. Be as complete as possible when furnishing plate “About Us”.
Edit the default “About us” page in the articles menu and edit the “More About Us” page too.
22. Edit Joomla Community Text
Use the Joomla Tutorial to fill in the blanks.
23. Convert Template if default style does not work for you.
Milky Way and JA Purity are the main default installed themes.
With a safe beta version in the default Joomla installation theme format, experiment with template uploads. Using the Joomla Administration menu, change the templates and preview them. Upload zip files after unzipping to the file manager in the hosting account using the FTP utility.
24. Edit the weblink directory
Web Links should be likely browsing destinations of your topical visitor or site user. Add links to the Joomla accurate details, keywords, links and category text.
25. Schedule future article publication.
Make sure to input future publishing articles in the Joomla interface to keep the flow of material updated and the schedule of text constantly new.
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