Developing a Website

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Developing a Website
Khirulnizam Abd Rahman 0129034614 khirulnizam_at_gmai
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The old method

• HTML HTML editor

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The easier method

• CMS content management system.
• A content management system (CMS) is computer
  software used to create, edit, manage, and
  publish content in a consistently organized
  fashion.
• The content managed may include computer files,
  image media, audio files, electronic documents,
  and Web content.
• A Web content management system is a CMS designed
  to simplify the publication of Web content to Web
  sites, in particular allowing content creators to
  submit content without requiring technical
  knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.

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What is Joomla?

• is one of the most popular Open Source Content
  Management Systems (CMS).
• It enables people from all over the world to
  create and manage great websites.
• Joomla has easy administration, multiple built-in
  and add-on features and Joomla users have the
  opportunity to customize their web pages with
  Free Joomla templates.
• It is written in the PHP programming language and
  uses the MySQL database by default.

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History

• Joomla came into being as the result of a fork of
  Mambo by the development team on August 17, 2005.
  
• At that time, the Mambo name was trademarked by
  Miro International Pty Ltd, who formed a
  non-profit foundation with the stated purpose to
  fund the project and protect it from lawsuits.
• On September 1, 2005 the new name, "Joomla",
  which is the English spelling of the Swahili
  (Arabic???? ,and Urdu ????) word jumla meaning
  "all together" or "as a whole" was announced.
• The first release of Joomla (Joomla 1.0.0) was
  announced on September 16, 2005. This was a
  re-branded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3 combined with
  other bug and moderate-level security fixes.
  Joomla version 1.5 was released on January 22,
  2008.

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• Joomla! is used all over the world to power
  everything from simple, personal homepages to
  complex corporate web applications. Here are just
  some of the ways people use joomla software
• Corporate websites or portals
• Online commerce
• Small business websites
• Non-profit and organizational websites
• Government applications
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• Personal or family homepages
• Community-based portals

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• Joomla runs on any platform including Windows,
  most flavours of Linux, several Unix versions,
  and the Apple OS/X platform.
• Joomla depends on PHP and the MySQL database to
  deliver dynamic content.
• It is written in the PHP programming language and
  uses the MySQL database by default.
• Joomla is licensed under the General Public
  License (GPL), and is the result of a fork of
  Mambo.
• The minimum requirements are
• Apache 1.x, 2.x and higher
• PHP 4.3 and higher
• MySQL 3.23 and higher
• Storage space 23MB

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Requirements to install Joomla

• To successfully install and use Joomla! you must
  have a fully operational
• web server (Apache / IIS)
• a database (MySQL)and
• the server side scripting language PHP together
  with specific modules that are activated within
  PHP for MySQL, XML, and Zlib functionality
  amongst others.

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Advantages

• It is free.
• Easy to install.
• Simple to manages.
• Non-programmers also can uses it.
• Joomla has modules, components, and user
  accounts, as well as many other things.
• With those features you can set up allowances and
  restrictions to your users ultimately, this
  gives you a very strict amount of control over
  your website.
• If you set it up this way, everything works as
  youd like, and nothing will happen or be
  published that you dont approve.

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Advantages

• Joomla is a fantastic content management system.
  Its simple user interface and abundance of help
  makes it easy for those who have never
  constructed a website before, but also enough
  possibilities to challenge the more experienced
  developer.
• There are many website templates available for
  you to upload to your Joomla backend. This means
  you don't have to mess around with html or
  Dreamweaver to design your site.

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Achievements

• Open Source Content Management System Award
  Winner Announced. (2006)?
• Joomla Wins Best PHP Open Source Content
  Management System.(2007)?

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How to use Joomla?

• First, you have to download Joomla! installer
  file from Joomla.org .
• Download the quickstart instruction to install
  Joomla! 1.5 here .

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• Step 2 Enter your login information in the
  Joomla! Administration Login screen

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• Step 3 If you have installed Joomla through
  Fantastico or from source with the sample data,
  you already have a few articles created and
  published. You can take a look at how they are
  written and organized in order to learn
  intuitively some good practices. To see them go
  to Content, Article Manager from the top admin
  menu.

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• Step 4 There you will see many articles listed
  in the form of links. Once you click on a link,
  you enter the Edit mode for an article. When you
  are done with exploring an article, click on the
  Close button to exit it. This will discard all
  changes you have made.Before building our first
  article, we will clean all the default ones to
  avoid confusion. For this purpose go back to
  Content, Article Manager from the top admin
  menu.Then select all the articles by checking
  the first radio button in the column and click on
  the Trash button from the top admin menu.
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• Step 5 Next we will create our first article
  "About us". From the top admin menu, click on
  New. 

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• Step 6 Then make the following changesTitle
  About usAlias (leave it blank)Section
  UncategorizedCategory UncategorizedPublished
  Yes (If it is not published, it will show to the
  visitors. It will remain only as a
  draft.)Frontpage Yes (This will allow it to
  appear the first page of our site.)In the main
  text field we will specify the information about
  our company...After that we would like to place
  inline our company's logo. For this purpose we
  click on the image icon at the bottom of the
  page 

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• Step 7 Since our logo is not uploaded yet, we
  click first on the Upload file link in the
  prompted window. First you have to browse your
  local computer and find the logo. Once the file
  is found, click on Start Upload to upload it. 

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• Step 8 Next you will see an acknowledgement
  that the file has been successfully uploaded. Now
  it can be found in the upper part of the window
  along with the default Joomla images. We click on
  logo.png (or whatever the name of your logo is)
  to select it and then on Insert to insert it in
  our article. The logo's position in the article
  can be easily adjusted by dragging it to where
  you'd like to have it.At last we save this
  article by clicking on the Save button.

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• Next we will add the "Our services" page. We will
  follow the same steps as before from the top
  administrator's menu, go to Content -gt Article
  manager. Then we click on New. Again we will
  set the same Section and Category for our page
  "Uncategorized". This time we will describe our
  services and what we offer. Note how feature-rich
  the default Joomla text editor is. Its menu is
  intuitive and has familiar design.After we are
  through with the editing we save the page with
  the Save button from the top-right panel.

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