ZinoFego:
Finalization/Install Sample Data

For the sake of how popular the field of blogging is becoming, we'll choose:

Blog English (GB) Sample Data.

We will now have a blog layout of a website by the time we finish the installation the next window.

Overview
Email Configuration: Leave the selected "NO" since we are not connected to the internet.

Click: INSTALL.

joseph1013:


How long should this take to INSTALL? Mine has been Installing for the past three hours. It has no reading to show the percentage or how long it will last. Am I on the right track?

ZinoFego:
Read a bit further from where you quoted me, you'll see the solution to that "unending installation"

joseph1013:


I can't see where you addressed it. You didnt answer the guy that asked you. Look at the screenshot below

thisisod:
please this is my first joomla site and i intend to develop a multi-vendor ecommerce site, i am working with hikashop and hikamarket and i have the installed, i have storefront and gravity templates installed. but i am having issues with mixing the two together (template and components) to produce a site. when i switch to default templates it gives me a slight look of what i what.(an ecommece site look and layout) anyone with experince to guide me through or recoomend a material to help me through on this particular aspect. i have materials on how to set a basic joomla site up which i understand to some extent and some on configuring hika products. but bring the template and componnts to blend has been a problem ususally giving an empty homepage with nothing suggesting it is an ecommerce site. plz help me through tnkx. i think am better on wordpress, but people recommend joomla if it must be a big ecommerce project. plz i nid help quote me.

ZinoFego:
Please read Module Positions.

thisisod:

thank you for your response sir, I have tried 2 figure thing out by previewing the module position but am at a loss. am using the store front template. Please more insights sir. thanks

ZinoFego:
If you're a newbie and wants to create something marketable urgently, you may require professional help.

But if it's a learning project, put a similar site side by side yours and fill your module positions. Don't let the site you're imitating be too complicated. Download free very beautiful images to make your site. There are sites that would help with designing your logo for free.

A bit at a time.

ZinoFego:
My fellow webmasters,

I want to teach you from the scratch how to develop a website using the most popular CMS_ Joomla.

I accidentally stumbled on Joomla some years ago; a client demanded a site requiring storing and retrieving data. I looked everywhere for who to teach me, I spent some good cash yet there were no results until I met a guy who casually showed me the prospects of Joomla and I learnt it on my own!

You may want to know, on what authority or experience I want to teach Joomla. Well, I've been using Joomla to develop websites for over 5yrs now and within this period; I've done over a hundred websites with Joomla only. During the course of the class, if requested, I'll give URLs of some of the sites I've done with Joomla.

Joomla is quite very easy to learn and deploy. Within 3hrs, you can get a Joomla site moderately running. So you don't need to be an experienced website developer to learn Joomla, newbies can deploy a Joomla site within a day.

Requirements to be in this class? None! Anyone who can read this post here and is willing to learn Joomla, can grasp it.

So lets get started...

Table of Content:

1. Overview of Joomla.
2. Installing Joomla in a few steps
3. A tour of the backend (Administrator Panel)
4. Global Configuration of the backend
5. Creating Content
6. Menus
7. Components
8. Modules
9. Plug-ins
10. Templates
11. User Manager
12. Media Manager
13. Languages
14. SEO & SEF
15. Security

ZinoFego:
Next....Click: JoomlaTraining/ and the image below will appear.

You are expected to enter.
1. Site Name*:
2. Description:
3. Admin Email*:
4. Admin Username*: admin
5. Admin Password*: user123
6. Confirm Admin Password*: user123

Please NOTE: I used admin as Admin Username while user123 as Admin Password. You may use any parameter that is convinient for you. We will use this Admin Username and Password to access the administrator side of the website later on so keep track of them.

Then click NEXT

Greg007:


bros good morning o, I'm having problem installing joolma. I can't see the subfolder www. in my ampp folders and do I need c++ to run ampp properly?

ZinoFego:
Next, you will copy the JoomlaTraining folder to the a subfolder called www in your AMPPS folder. By default, AMPPS would be installed to your c:\ drive. This means the JoomlaTraining will be in this path. c:\Ampps\www\JoomlaTraining.

1. See the above, which folders are inside your AMPPS folder?
2. In you type localhost or localhost:8080 as the case may be in your browser, what do you see?


You don't need C++ to run AMPPS.

Okebarn:


boss, you havent spoken on SECURITY, its very important we know how to secure our site from hackers.

ZinoFego:
Next, you will copy the JoomlaTraining folder to the a subfolder called www in your AMPPS folder. By default, AMPPS would be installed to your c:\ drive. This means the JoomlaTraining will be in this path. c:\Ampps\www\JoomlaTraining.

1. See the above, which folders are inside your AMPPS folder?
2. In you type localhost or localhost:8080 as the case may be in your browser, what do you see?


You don't need C++ to run AMPPS.

Greg007:


I don't see the joolma training folder when I type localhost in browser. I also tried putting the joomla folder in all the folder I saw in the ampps folder I didn't work. is the www a folder on it's own in the ampps?

I didn't. see www. folder in ampps