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How to create a blog on Joomla!

How to create a blog with joomla

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How to create a blog on Joomla!

What are blogs?A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your passions. Really, it’s anything you want it to be!

Who blogs?Once the haven of technical know-it-alls, blogging has suddenly caught-on as a legitimate hobby and has entered the mainstream. Every day millions of people, some of whom have no technical ability whatsoever, write on their blogs.

To meet this demand some amazing tools have been created that will allow anyone, even people with very little knowledge of computers, to have their own blog. If you can find your way onto the Internet and follow some basic instructions you can have your own blog. With Joomla, it’s just that easy!

How does a website work?So if you want to create a decent blog - first thing to learn is the basics. There are four main things that are required for making a great website in extremely short time:

HostingDomain name

CMSDesign

Trust us, you won’t get anywhere without these.

HostingBasically, hosting is a company or an organisation that provides you with space on their servers and an Internet connectivity. The web-hosting or server is much like the rental space for your business. Although, it’s just the space without anything.

Domain nameJust like we use phone numbers to call a specific person, computers communicate by using ip addresses to contact each other. Domain names on the Internet are similar to entries in a phone book. Without a domain, you’d have to tell your customers a temporary ip address of your website, that doesn’t look any good or pleasant. Instead of this, you can use a domain name that will be more practical and seem much more professional.

104.20.89.211 fancysitename.com

CMSCMS or Content Management System is an application for your computer that allows to do a bunch of things like publishing, editing, modifying. organizing, deleting, and maintaining content from a central interface. It’s like having a one single remote for all electronics in your house. There are dozens of CMS on the web. Still, the most popular ones are WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.

Why Joomla?Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications.

Who uses Joomla? Popular fashion sites, educational and government websites, magazines, music sites and so on.

Joomla is also free, open, and available to anyone under the GPL license.

What is possible with Joomla?Many companies and organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla package. In those cases, Joomla's powerful application framework makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla into virtually unlimited directions.

What can you build?Among dozens of possibilities you can create, of course, an amazing blog!

The possibilities are limitless! Joomla is extremely extensible and there is virtually no limitation what type of website you will build with it. A Joomla Blog can be extended using all other functionality Joomla provides. With a Joomla based blog you can have a forum, shopping cart or a multi functional gallery all bundled in one solution.

DesignThe simplest thing to understand, but, probably, the most important one. Design is the way your website will look. It contains from lots of elements, as layout, color, graphics, fonts, etc. The success of your website is highly determined by it’s design.

Where to get one?There are lots of places to get a good-looking and functional design. Still, there are three basic ways to have a design for your website:

- To make it by yourself (You will need a good knowledge, experience and lots of free time to make one)

- To order at a web-design studio (Be ready to spend some extra money and wait some extra time)

- To buy a ready-made template(Pretty cheap, easy and fast to get, mostly great quality)

Website templatesA web template is a pre-designed web page or a set of pages that anyone can use to insert their own content as text, pictures, music, videos etc. They are made to ease your life. They allow everyone to build a reasonable website without having to hire a professional web-designer or a developer. Basically, website template is like a nice guy that comes and helps you with an impossible for you work.

Where to get a website template?

It’s up to you. As it was said, you can make it by yourself, but we doubt it’s possible without proper knowledge and experience. Also, you can order one in a design studio, it’s not cheap and you’ll have to wait some time and you’ll never know what exactly you get, but it may work. The last thing to do is to get a ready-made one. There’s a provider that can offer you both awesome templates and professional support for a really low price. It is called TemplateMonster.

So, what TemplateMonster is?

TemplateMonster is the biggest template provider on the Web. It helps people to make really decent websites, to make money, to be successful. Also, TemplateMonster helps you to save your time, money and nerves.

Saving your timeTime is a precious thing, not only because it has its end, but also because it makes money. Isn’t it better to start doing business right ahead, after you got an awesome idea? TemplateMonster allows to do that. You can get your website up and running within several hours. The only thing that is left to do is adding your content.

Saving your moneyWith all the functional and design features, attractive looks and reliability, TemplateMonster’s designs are actually pretty cheap. You don’t have to spend thousands to get a well-done website. Spend only a few hundreds and invest the rest in your business or use them however you want to.

Saving your nervesIf you buy something - you obviously want it to work. And if it stops working - you have no choice than to fix it by yourself or pay to specialists. TemplateMonster provides free professional lifetime support for each customer. No matter how much your template cost or how long time ago have you bought it.

TemplateMonster support team will help you with getting, installing, customizing, fixing, managing your website and more. So you can relax while TemplateMonster does its job.

Get Joomla templates now!

For $75 only you get a template with an awesome design, functionality and a professional 24/7 lifetime support!

Follow the link to get the best templates on the Web

www.templatemonster.com/joomla-templates

That’s all you need for a successful blog on Joomla!

Don’t forget to visit www.templatemonster.com for some awesome web-templates!

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