Introduction to Joomla CMS
Alvin explains Joomla's history. Originated in Mambo, and split off to Joomla in about 2004 when mamboo decided to close source.
Similar to other CMS's, it has extensions and other third party developers that can extend joomla's default set up.
Language translations are available - localisations are in the extension pages, most major languages.
Community forums and tutorials are available for setting up new sites.
Explained "fantastico" - a web administration tool that many ISPs use. It offers many scripts to auto install and configure Joomla, Drupal etc.
Alvin first used Joomla, because he found Drupal more difficult than he wanted.
LAMP/WAMP/MAMP stacks were mentioned. I explained the basic definition of that concept: it's the complete ingredient set needed for most CMS installs (Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress). It starts from the bottom: (L)inux OS, (A)pache Web server, (M)ysql database, (P)HP language.
Explained cPanel/fatastico as a 'control panel' that is available to some web servers that means the end we admin doesn't need to have command line skills to admin their site. Makes it easier to start a site for the new.
steps to install:
download tarball (.tara .gz or .tgz - a type of zip file) extract on your computer upload to your server using ftp client of choice
filezilla is the best ftp client - free good ftp. Some of the problems of cPanel is that you can only upload one file a time. FTP solves that problem,
the difference between modules and plugins and something else where explained.
Joomla installation
You need to delete the install file as it is publically accessible.
Through teh web, is easy to show how it can be configured, added to , deleted from
