Homepage - A website with ease of use

For your free site I can recommend the content management system (CMS for short) Joomla!. Joomla! is an open source product and can be used free software license costs as. This system can be later, the contents of your website quickly and easily manage.

Joomla! is a popular, dynamic and free content management system. Joomla! now comes in a variety of applications worldwide and successfully used.

Efficiency in the Internet begins with the simple management of content. With the free content management system Joomla! Thanks to easy operation can be quickly and easily change content create a homepage, or complement. Keeps your homepage up to date and attractive to visitors.

The precise installation and operation as well as many features as extensions from the CMS Joomla! are described on a free Open Book by Galileo. You need this open book, which incidentally is also available as a normal book, for your home project. You can find the relevant information at the bottom of the page.

Download the system files

Since the CMS Joomla! is continually evolving, there are at regular intervals, new system versions available. First, you need the latest version of the Joomla! homepage download. You can find the link to the detailed information at the bottom of the page.

Data transfer and installation of the system

The next step, the system files are uploaded to your web server. In the previous chapter I described the theme of "hosting". You will need the access from your Internet provider and an FTP program to upload the files. Please see the detailed information at the bottom of the page a link to a free FTP program.

To install the system, you still need a MySQL database. You can have them set themselves up on the server or from your web hosting service providers. It comes out you have selected a range of web hosting what.

Follow step by step the instructions in the Open Book for the installation and configuration of the system. If you are here by Joomla! you will see very soon a complete website right on the screen. Then you can start with the adjustments for your own website.

Sections, pages and create content

With the installation of the CMS Joomla! a default template installed. A template is a design template and provides the look of your homepage. You will be in the next chapter "Web design" information how you can change the look of your homepage.

After installing the system, you can start with creating consisting of the navigation points (headings) and the individual page contents of text and image. Follow this step by step instructions in Open Book by Galileo. You can find the link will then go to the added information.

For writing the page content is available in the CMS Joomla! a text editor. They can in a field to enter the page title, and write in another field of the text and integrate images or tables. Also in this editor, you can enter for the search engines important description text and keywords. Find our more in the "search engines".

Information about the CMS Joomla!: www.joomla.org

Free Joomla! Open Book by Galileo: openbook.galileocomputing.de

Further books: Joomla Book www.joomla-buch.ch

Free FTP program Filezilla: www.filezilla.ch