Uploading Joomla to your web (hosting) server

After having developend and tested your website on a local server, the next big challenge is uploading the website to your web server, and updating the configuration such that you "go live". The tutorial below gives you the steps required to move your Joomla website from your local computer to a server. With a few tweaks these steps also apply to moving Joomla from one host to another.

Upload all files to your web server

The first thing you need to do is transfer the files to the web server where your live site will be hosted. To be able to do this, you will need FTP (FTP is a way of allowing easy transfer of files across the web) access to your web server. FTP access typically consists of:

Installing Joomla on local computer (localhost)

First to install joomla you need a webserver, php and mysql installed on your computer. If you don't have these installed..download WAMP (Windows Apache MySql PHP) server and install it. I am writing this tutorial using WAMP
as my server. But these steps are almost same in all other servers.

Follow the steps below

1. First you need joomla package. Go to Joomla website and download the latest version of joomla.
Follow this link download joomla. This tutorial is based on
Joomla 1.5.x.

14 Essential Plugins for WordPress

Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. WordPress plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize coding. So it so easy to add a plugin or remove a plugin from your blog site. WordPress Plugins are available from several sources. The “official” sources for WordPress Plugins are:

• Official WordPress Plugins
• WordPress Plugin Database

There are hundreds of WordPress plugins available in the Internet, but you may not require all of them for your site. I selected 14 essential plugins which I am currently using.