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PostHeaderIcon Guides and Tips on Joomla Installation

Joomla installation is very even for novice and especially for web developer. Though it easy to install, user should have enough knowledge about this CMS platform before purchasing it. User should know how to use this, where this should be used and what are the requirements needed to run the full version of joomla and what are the other software needed to fully run this CMS.

There are two ways on how to install this CMS platform. It could be through manual installation or standard browser installation.

But there are some things to consider before installing Joomla. This CMS platform is not like other software that can be installed directly over your computer. You should have a web server and hosting account before you can run this software. But acquiring a hosting account is quite expensive. So instead of purchasing a hosting account, you can actually run your web server though your computer by using a local host. You also need some software that caters APACHE, PHP and MYSQL to run the Joomla and its components. Examples of this software are XAMPP and WAMP. You have to fully run either of this two before installing your Joomla.

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PostHeaderIcon Joomla Menu

In the front end of every application, there are a number of menus that are often displayed as stand-alone boxes. Joomla has several menus consisting of the main, top, user, key concepts, example pages and other menu. Each of these is associated with a module.

There are several Joomla menu extensions available in the web today. In this article, I will discuss the features of D4J TransMenu, Infinity Menu, SWmenu Free and Extended Menu.

The Joomla menu extension called D4J TransMenu is a module that creates smooth sliding submenus to the navigation system. The extensions enables the user to customize the CSS style for the menu and the module, configure the submenu sliding, customize the submenu appearance, background, and transparency settings; and, customize the item image settings. Moreover, the distinct feature of this module is that it does not require the user to redefine the appearance style since the module will automatically recover and apply the current template settings.

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PostHeaderIcon CMS Selection! Not an Easy Task

The content management market has grown up in recent years, with the availability of market like open source and software as a service. As available product is more, selection is really tough task to do. When any organization selects CMS for their business problem that CMS must be able to fulfill their future problem also. But in most cases CMS fail due to so and so reason, and unwillingly organization has to migrate for the second one.

Through this article I want to highlight the main point about selection is that, there is no fix plan for selection of CMS because content management is a process rather than a product. In this article I have given information about each type of CMS So you can easily pick the right one for your organization according to your requirement.

Why you need content management system?

This is the primary thing you have to take care before selection process. I will not go in depth, but here some advantages of CMS listed below:

• Speed and ease of content updates.
• Content stays timely.
• Permission-based publishing.
• Automatic link maintenance.
• Version-control.
• Work flow and staffing.

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