Part 1 of a 5 part series presented at the Joomla Chicago User Group.

1. Joomla! KickstartPart 1: Introduction to Joomla! and JoomlaInstallation Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

2. What we’re going to cover Intro to Joomla What is Joomla Evolution of Joomla What’s Joomla used for? Joomla vs. Static web pages Why Joomlavs Other CMS’s 5 key parts JoomlaInstallation JoomlaTechnology / Lamp Stack Installation Caveats Prep the server Installation Options Getting Joomla Install Demo Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

3. What is Joomla? Web Based Content Management System A web application for creating, maintaining and delivering content online CMS’s can maintain virtually anything including: written, audio and video content Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

4. Uses For Joomla CMS Blogs News and multimedia sites Business websites Enterprise solutions – THINK BIG! Portfolios Social Networking Ecommerce Intranet & Extranets Customized Solutions Dream it and you can build it Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

5. Ideal Applications Business and Enterprise News & Media Publishing Volunteer / Non Profit Organizations Government & Education Personal websites No project is to small or large! Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

6. Joomla Vs. HTML Editor Web-based Software Database driven Collaborative: Many contributors! Simultaneous Users Workflow Approval Process: Versioning Administrative Controls Extensibility Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

7. Why Joomla vs. HTML Editor (cont) No longer need to: Create html pages manually Linking multiple pages together Maintain pages locally Think about a site with hundreds or thousands of pages. Do you really want to manage that file by file? Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

8. Why Joomla vs. Other CMS’s Very User Friendly Quick to learn and train Largest CMS community base well over 100k in members, millions of Joomla sites online Largest extension base 4700+ (as of April 2010) Huge Support Network Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

9. 5 Key Parts of Joomla Content Navigation Extensions User Management Look and Feel / Templates Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

10. Joomla! CMS Kickstart #1Joomla Installation Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

11. Joomla Technology Normally a hosted or self-hosted server installation Can be run locally for testing purposes on Mac or Windows PHP based Runs best on a LAMP stack Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

12. LAMP Stack Linux Apache MySQL Database PHP 5.0+ Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

13. Installation Caveats We are doing a manual install Several steps have been taken care of ahead of time Server directory has been created MySQL DB has been created Files have been downloaded We are using a Windows-based server setup using XAMPP Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

14. Installation Overview Prep the server Download the softwarefrom Joomla.org Unpack the software Run the installer Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

15. Prep the Server Make sure you can login – control panel and ftp Backup any existing files on the server Create a blank database for Joomla via MyPHPAdmin or your control panel interface Create a new FTP user for Joomla Determine your Server OS Determine your PHP version (PHP 5 required) Test your Website Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

16. Download the Software Download the latest version of the software from Joomla.org Zip package: http://www.joomla.org/download.html Other packages: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/ Current version for 1.5.x: 1.5.18(as of June 2010) Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

17. Unpacking the Software Depending on your OS, unpacking will use different packages, i.e. tar.gz, tar.bz2. Check your server for available unpacking software (zip, tar/gzip, tar/bzip) For this demo, we are using the ZIP package. Unpack the software to the web root of your server account Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

18. Run the Installer – Step by Step Language Pre-installation check License Database Configuration FTP Configuration Site Configuration Finish! (Don’t forget to remove the install directory) Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli

19. Questions? Presented at © Copyright 2011 – Kendall Cabe and Nick Martinelli