The Art of eMarketing

Like I said in my WordPress how to, I am not programmer literate nor do I understand php and how most things work on the web. However I found Joomla really easy to install and work with. If WordPress were not so easy to use for blogs, I would probably be using Joomla. Joomla has a really good community that creates extensions that anyone can use. They have actually come up with some really good ones, if you want to see them to get an idea of what to expect just head over to Joomla.com

Step 1 – Download Joomla and Unzip it
Go to Joomla.com and you should see a link in the middle of the webpage that says “download”. Click that link and save the file to your computer. Once the file is downloaded you need to unzip it. You can do this with a program like WinZip or winrar. You can extract the contents to anywhere on your computer.

Step 2 – Set up MySql Database
Login to your cpanel and go to “MySQL databases”. Look for the button “add db” and type in the form the name of the new database (ex: joomladatabase). Press “add db” button. The new database is created. Now, let’s add a user to that database. Look for “Add User” button. Type your username and a password and press “add User”. The next step is to add the user to our database. Below databases are 2 dropdown spots where you see a user and a database. Select your new user and database. Below select the desired privileges and press “Adduser to DB”. Make sure you save this information because it will be used again in a later step.