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In this guide, we will be discussing the steps for installing the Content Management System (CMS) Joomla! on a local host server.
Joomla is an open source content management system, which is a web based system that helps users construct their website; offering streamlined, easy to use tools in their website design; such as a “what you see is what you get” or WYSIWYG editor, that lets users edit their text Las mere…

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The ecommerce industry nowadays has become such a stressful and confusing thing to deal with. There are thousands of factors to look upon and thousands of ecommerce tools to choose from. If users just have something that has everything marketers will ever need to survive in the ecommerce wilderness.
Well, what if there is indeed something like that? Anyone heard of Google?
Google and Everything
Of course, everyone knows what Google Las mere…

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WordPress is a very powerful blogging / web site platform. It is free, it has lots of great themes (free and premium) and hundreds if not thousands of plugging to do almost everything you can think of (there are free and premium plugging available as well). But it doesn't stop there, there is also this feature called "Widget".
A widget is a block, and you can control what will be display Las mere…

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Joomla has a number of settings throughout the administrator control panel which allow users to be sorted into groups. Groups make it so that administrators can effectively manage site permissions from a centralized point, which makes it much easier than changing user permissions one by one.
To explain it more clearly, users are split into groups, which use access levels and these groups follow a hierarchal structure from the users with Las mere…

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Once you have installed and configured your Joomla site, it's probably a good idea to start installing some extensions. The amount you can do with extensions is almost limitless, extensions can be used to increase the functionality of your site, help with security or even help you manage your users. In this article I will cover some of the basics of installing and configuring a site management extension.
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One of the great things about WordPress is the ability to add plugin. Basically, plugin is a small programs that can be added to cater for your specific needs, or in other words, plugin can extend the functionality of your WordPress site with very little work. There are hundreds of plugins available for WordPress so if you are a regular user, and you want a specific function in your blog, Las mere…

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Before we start creating pages, it is important to know the difference between "Pages" and "Posts".
Pages are usually static, and their contents rarely changes. For example, "About Us" should contains a profile of a certain company or organization and "Contact Us" contains information of how the visitors can contact the company.
Posts are usually contain chronographically arranged informations, for example, the latest news of the company, new product launching, gathering that Las mere…

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Permalinks in WordPress are a function which enables you to customize the appearance of your links. Using the Apache mode rewrite module, permalinks can not only become more visually appealing, as they are easy to remember, but they can also help you increase your search engine ranking and help users find a URL much faster.
The permalink function in WordPress works by transforming what is known as a GET request (example.com?p=1) Las mere…

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When deciding to create your own website or blog, there are an array of companies and options which you can select from to host your site with WordPress. You can host your website through a web hosting company or you could run your own web server, but these are generally expensive options. They can also quite of require a large amount of time and configuration.
Sometimes, particularly if you only want Las mere…

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In many cases, you will find yourself writing a post which contain an image or even series of images in it. Adding and formatting (positioning) an image is very easy in WordPress. First, we better familiarize ourselves with the terms we are using.
Image is picture or photo. We can insert more than one image in a post. By default, if you insert one image in a post, it will appear Las mere…

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