Joomla is one of the easiest Content Management System especially for newcomers. A step by step manual is not provided to teach how to create a website from the very beginning. The user manual is built on the functional aspect.

After some time I understood that you should do only 5 steps to create a website with the help of the Content Management System called Joomla. These 5 steps are listed below to assist you if it is still difficult for you to understand after you have read the manual. Please take into consideration that these steps will only be useful if you first look at the official user manual provided by Joomla Developers.

The first step: draw your site map (in 3 levels depth). Take for sample a Beauty and Spa website, accepting the top level is Home then it divides to two children each namely products and services. Services will branch out the next two children namely Facial and Massage. Products will derive to Cleanser and Toner. When you defined three levels of site map, you can now sort Home as Section, services and products as Categories and four of the remained as articles. In Joomla context articles mean web pages.

The second step: you need to build section in Joomla Content Management System. You will have to have only one section – the Home. If you decided to create new sections you will need to address Section Manager and ask for help. You should remember one thing it is important to tag the category under the right section. Category Manager can help you to build and tag categories.

The third step: to create web pages (articles) for your web site. Content Article Manager can help you to do that. A powerful editor is provided by Joomla, it allows you to create content for your web site without the necessity to know codes.

The fourth step is to make a menu for your link to appear. This is a very important step if you want that the visitors click on a link to view the web page. With the help of Menu option you can create the menu. When the menu is created, put in links to the menu.

The fifth step is enabling the menu. Sometimes the menu is not shown because many people forget about this stage. We should choose where the menu should appear and tell Joomla about this. In this case you go to Module Manager and search for menu name and then enable it. The Module manager is where you can place your menu.

To tell the truth here are listed not all the steps of creation your web site in this article. Nonetheless, these 5 steps should solve a lot of problems when people start working with Joomla.

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