If you are new to Joomla it may seem a bit overwhelming. In addition to online Joomla training seminars, TrainMeJoomla.com offers a series of video tutorials that are available on our website.
Learn some steps you can take to make a more effective website. It takes hard work hard to get people to your website, stay and convert.
Once you have XAMPP installed, it is very easy to install Joomla on your local PC. This tutorial will walk you through the installation and setup so you can have a Joomla install on your windows computer. It makes the process of Joomla development so much easier when you can eliminate the time consuming FTP steps in the development process.
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Lets talk the basics of Global Settings. Looking through forums, I see a lot of questions that deal with Global Settings. I think most new Joomla users don't even look at the global settings. You can alter you default Joomla meta tags, session lengths and user registration to get started.
After you make your menu, or select the menu that you want to show as registered, just select the "Registered" access level. You can also choose where the menu will be displayed in the site on the menu assignment area. Select the "Select Menu Item(s) from the List" redio button and then you will be able to select the specific area of the site by highlighting them in blue. Use CTRL+ click or Shift+click to make multiple selections.
You can also make specific navigation elements in the menu assigned to registered users. This task is accomplished in the same way under the menu manager.
Public access is anyone who stumbles upon the site.
Registered access is user who registered to use the site.
Special access is typically a user who will be providing content.
If you are looking for a paid subscription service, one solutions is using a provider such as aMember to manage the access assignments. That will allow you to force users to pay in order to register. It will automate the user management/access.
You may want to check your server to see if it will support aMember before you purchase, there is an aMember script here that you can upload and visit to see if you can install it. aMember also has a demo available so you can test it out. Just be sure to get the Joomla plugin when you download it.
Working with Joomla on your local machine can really speed up the development process and is critical for testing situations when you consider adding new features or components. Testing it on the local machine first will show you if you are likely to run into issues when you update your live site.
This tutorial will tell you how to install XAMPP on your computer so you can have a web host running locally.
If you are looking to do keyword research for your website, these are the tools that I like to use:
This tutorial will walk you through the process I use to investigate new keywords for my websites.
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