Joomla video tutorial

September 13, 2009, 06:30:07 PM

Shauna

Newbie

Posts: 1

I saw a post last October about having difficulties with installing Joomla and the lack of tutorials with your hosting services. You didn't say why you don't have such a popular CMS's instructions. Do I need to call you on phone to get help? Reviews say it is easy but I looked at their installation documentation and it is anything but.

Newbie forced into Joomla.


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September 14, 2009, 08:07:15 AM

asande

Newbie

Posts: 24

Re: Joomla video tutorial

Hi, Shawna:

Joomla is quite easy to install on Hostpapa. You can either install it by hand using the installation instructions that are found at www.joomla.org or automatically through Fantastico in your control panel. Both ways seem to work fine without any problems... I currently have a couple of live installations on my two domains hosted here.

I've never really paid much attention to the hostpapa tutorials; they have a pretty standard LAMP server setup, so it's easy to follow the instructions provided by the various open source software developers (like Joomla) and have it work the first time. Probably the biggest problem with Joomla is in figuring out how it works with respect to menus, articles, etc - that's not a Hostpapa issue, but more one with the software itself (just think of it like using MS Word on a Dell - if you have a problem with Word, you should call Microsoft for support - not Dell). It took me a while to wrap my head around Joomla, but once I did, it's a nice piece of software.

If you're curious and want to have a look, one of my Joomla sites is at www.sande.ca/home

I hope this helps...

Al


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March 26, 2011, 12:38:47 AM

chickadee

Newbie

Posts: 1

Re: Joomla video tutorial

Quote from: Shauna on September 13, 2009, 06:30:07 PM

I so agree...the only reason why we chose to go with Hostpapa is because we are not familiar with website building...you need to have a tutorial from start to finish for us newbie's. I have decided I need a web design course only because...I do not understand...Hostpapa get with the program...we are newbie's we don't understand! That is why we go to you.