Immediately after installation, the user is provided with a ready-to-use admin panel and a modern design theme for the main site (frontend).
You can publish materials and promote the site in search engines from the first minutes of the site’s existence, no additional tools are required. But if you need to launch a specific niche project, you will have to dive into the settings and install additional plugins/modules.
Below we will consider the main steps that begin to master the engine beginners.
Where to start
The first step, as in the case of other CMS-systems for their hosting, will be to install the engine on the server. If you have chosen a quality and modern hoster, Joomla can be installed in one or two clicks from the hosting panel (using the auto-install script).
But if there is no such option, or you want the latest version of CMS, you will have to download the distribution from the official website of the developers and install the system manually. There is nothing complicated in this. Everything is standard – you need to pre-create a database, specify connection parameters to it, come up with the name of the site and enter the administrator’s data.
Editing the site
Unlike the same WordPress, Joomla does not require mandatory installation of plugins to start working with the publication. For example, out of the box there is everything you need to work with SEO (meta tags, CNC, etc.), caching pages, customizing the appearance of the theme and the output of content blocks, to switch to a secure HTTPS-version, etc.
If you don’t know how and what is organized in the system yet, install demo content. You can do it in one click (in the Sample Data block of the admin panel).
There is demo content and structure for a small blog.
There is a demo version of a multi-language site.
When you understand the structure of block output, if necessary, install and configure the necessary extensions, plugins and modules, customize the design theme, you can go directly to the process of publishing content. To do this, you first need to think about the structure of the site and create categories of materials, think about the system of additional fields (if they are needed).
