Joomla Tutorials

ZooTemplate provides quickstart package for each template which aims to easy to use and comfortable for users. It will help you save much time of installing and configuring if you plan to start your site from the beginning. Installing Quickstart package is quite easy as you install normal joomla!. Please follow these steps:

Hosting requirements

Installing Joomla! for the first time is very easy. Joomla!’s built-in installer makes setting up your new site a breeze.

Before we start installing Joomla!, there are a couple prerequisites that need to be met to install successfully:

• Hosting - whether you have a dedicated server, or shared hosting plan, you’ll need some sort of web hosting that meets the following requirements:
  • PHP v. 5.2+
  • MySQL 5.04+
  • Apache 1.3
• MySQL Database - you’ll need access to a MySQL database, as well as the following credentials.
  • DB Name
  • Host Name
  • Username
  • Password
• FTP Client - for transferring files to your server. If you don’t already have an FTP client that you use, we recommend Filezilla
• Download the quickstart package from ZooTemplate Downloads

This tutorial will show you how to install Joomla 1.5.

What you need:

1. Web server (hosting account or localhost web server)

You can actually run a web server on your local computer, in other words, your desktop or laptop. This is known as having a localhost. It may sound like I just contradicted myself from the previous paragraph, but not quite. You can't "run" Joomla itself on your own computer, but you can install a localhost web server for it to "run on".

Joomla templates

We will now specifically show you how to install and change Joomla templates.

Installing a template on Joomla is an easy task. The first thing you have to do is to find the templates from our single joomla templates gallery. The template file is a zip archive (a.k.a. package file) containing everything needed for its installation. To install it, please, log in to your Joomla administrator panel and go to Extensions -> Install/Uninstall:

Let's stick with our weight loss website for now, and I will take you through the steps you'll need to do to get indexed by Google in under 24 hours, guaranteed.

1. Go to Google and enter the broadest keyword you can think of that's related to your website. In our example, it will be "weight loss". Once you've done this,you'll see a list of Google results.
2. Browse through each website and pay particular attention to the Google PageRank of the website.

If you've had your Joomla website for a while, don't hesitate to do the following steps to get a high search engine ranking:

1. Turn On Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLS (SEF)
2. Install The SEF Component (Sh404, JoomSEF )
3. Make Joomla URLS SEO Friendly
4. Good Page Titles & Clean URLs in Joomla
5. Insert H1 Tags In Joomla
6. Use a good sitemap component (xMap ..)
7. Register on DMOZ.org
8. Add metadata to pages
9. Create SEO-Friendly Content

Hope this help!