Hi guys,
I hope last post was helpful for joomla installation in linux.
Like that, depending upon the OS joomla installation steps should different.
If you have any other doubts. Please raise questions.,,,,,,,,?
Ok.
Now, we see about basics of Joomla. If you are familiar to handle the joomla, then only you can able to change the contnet with help of joomla.

Brief introduction about Joomla and advantages:
Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) for building rich, dynamic websites quickly. An easy to use, your website including content, images, videos and more, all directly from your browser. No HTML required. There are thousands of extensions and add ons that extend the power of your Joomla Website such as ecommerce, data reporting, image controls, directories, communication tools, reservation systems, and much much more. Joomla is open source, standards based and best of all, its free.

Joomla! features:

- Completely database driven site engines

- News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable

- Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors

- Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes

- Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site

- Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results

- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX

Extensive Administration:

- Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc.

- Random Newsflash generator

- Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links

- Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want

- Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use

- Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link

- News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world

- Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out

- Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article

- In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad

- User editable look and feel

- Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page

- Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site

- Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds

- Layout preview. See how it looks before going live

- Banner manager. Make money out of your site


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Joomla

Here right now through the joomla we are going to see CMS.
Joomla is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems(CMS). It is used to
manage web sites in easy way. Joomla is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Here are minimum requirements needed for Joomla:
a) PHP 4.2.x or above
b) MySQL 3.23.x or above
c) Apache 1.13.19 or above

The following steps for Joomla installation in Linux

Step 1. - Install mysql-server, php, mysql.

step 2. - Download Joomla CMS
Go to http://www.joomla.org and download the latest Joomla CMS
(Example: Joomla_1.5.15-Stable-Full_Package.zip )

Save the Joomla package under /var/www/html and extract it using the commands:
# cd /var/www/html
# unzip Joomla_1.5.9-Stable-Full_Package.zip

Step 3. Create the configuration.php (Joomla) and restart needed services

# touch configuration.php
# chown -R apache.apache *
# /etc/init.d/httpd restart && /etc/init.d/mysqld restart

Step 4. Open your browser (Firefox) to your server's IP address

Open Firefox to : http://localhost/ or http:// of your linux box
Continue with your Joomla Installation (use default settings)
For mysql username/password use : Username : root , Password :

Step 5. Finalized installation
After installation finished you need to remove the installation directory,
# cd /var/www/html
# rm -rf installation
Your new website is Up and Runninng. Use Joomla's administration to add content to your site..

You WebSite : Http://localhost - Administration : http://localhost/administrator/

CMS means......

CMS: Content Management System (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site.
CMS consist 2 types of CMS:
1. Content Management Application (CMA)
CMA element are used for content manager or admin can able to change the content of the website. The main benefit is, that admin may or may not know about HTML or techincal knowledge but admin can able to do the following things in website
a) Creation
b) Modification
c) Removal the content in website.

2. Content Delivery Application (CDA)
The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. With help of this element, multiple information can update in the website.

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First blog for my CMS

This is my first experienced started new blog and share my knowledge to others.
I hope, this blog will interest to share and get knowledge about CMS.
Time Starts now for CMS

We are using CMS concepts and implemented in different platforms. Rigth now , i will focus only on PHP related CMS.

So, wait for Upcoming posts.