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You can learn how to install Joomla on your website in a number of ways. However, the simplest and by far, the quickest is through Fantastico. This usually takes about 1-2 minutes once you know how. In this article, we are going to cover just that.

So, here is the step by step process for installing Joomla on your own website.

1. Log in to your hosting account’s Control Panel. This should usually be http://www.mydomainname.com/controlpanel, where ‘mydomainnane’ is replaced your own website that is hosted on that hosting account.

2. Look for the smiley icon that says “Fantastico” and click on it. This is where you will be installing the Joomla package from. Note that Sometimes, it may say “Fantastico De Luxe.” Don’t worry it is the same thing. Much like saying “my room” and “my bedroom”

3. Look for “Joomla” under the “Content Management” category of scripts in Fantastico and click on it. Also, note that the title ‘Joomla’ may sometimes have some numerical suffixes showing which version it is. For example, the title may read “Joomla 1.5″ for version 1.5 of the CMS. Just click on the most recent version and go to the next step.

4. Look for the hyperlinked blue “New Installation” link and make sure you have at least as much as the minimum disk space required for you to install Joomla on your website. This is usually about 25 MB of disk space.

This is not usually a problem, with most people’s disk space running into the tens of gigabytes. But it is still good to make sure you have enough to hold a new Joomla installation.

5. Choose where on your website you want to install Joomla. Will it be on your main domain, an existing sub-domain or a new not-yet-existing sub-domain or directory? Indicate it in this part of the installation process.

6. Fill out other required fields that are required to smoothly install Joomla on the site. This includes creating an Admin username and password. Don’t choose ‘Admin’ and ‘password’ as your username and password. Many people do this and have been hacked. Also, fill out the site name or main keyword, email address and other details here.

Then click the “Install Joomla” button.

7. On the next page, make sure that all the needed information is correct. Also, note down your Admin username, password and backend page (the one that ends with /administrator).

Finally, hit that “Finish Installation” of a button.

Voila! You have just learned how to install Joomla on your website. This should usually take only 1 or 2 minutes at most. After all, all you are doing is just hitting buttons, except for when choosing a username, etc.

If it still sounds a little like “nerd talk” (with all due respect to all the nerds out there ), you can watch the video version of this article where you see the Joomla installation done live on the screen and see if you can learn how to install Joomla after that.

Achieving traffic gains on the internet takes hard work and it is what webmasters focus on every single day. Learn what the pros do to effectively build the popularity of their sites.

Webmasters work hard to top rankings in search engine results by optimizing their sites for organic searches. They do this to gain additional site traffic and to boost their popularity online to gain recognition on the World Wide Web. An important part of achieving those results is Web Directory Submission.

For those of you who may not know what a Web Directory is:

They are web sites which contain links to internet resources that have been reviewed for quality by humans and sorted into relevant categories within the Web Directory. The category structure allows sites to be found easier by visitors to the directory and also creates relevancy for the link to the specific sites.

There is very little similarity between reciprocal linking and submitting to a web directory. Just about the only common thread is that you are trying to increase the number of inbound links to your site and along with it traffic. A web directory offers a much simpler way to gaining relevant links than reciprocal linking methods.

Within the web directory category there are two different types. The first kind of web directory charges a review fee for listing consideration. The benefit to this directory is a speedy review to get your listing added. It also keeps sites of low quality out of the directory so that your site is not listed among spam sites.

The other kind of web directory is the free version. These free directories often get hundreds of submissions a day and have backlogs in the thousands. Since there is no fee being charged for review there is little to inspire the directory owner to keep up with reviews. Also it is difficult to conduct good reviews on that number of submissions and many times the spam submissions get through.

How do web directories benefit your website?

Increased traffic to your site is the chief benefit that web directory links offer. Over time links from directories will boost your link popularity and help you rise in search engine results. For best results submit your site for inclusion to quality directories with authority. Traffic to your site will increase the more popular it becomes through link building.

Because search engines use human edited web directories in their evaluations for rankings, submitting to quality web directories can give you a boost in traffic results. They help to increase a websites exposure and recognition around the World Wide Web.

There are ways to measure the success of your directory submission campaign. They include watching for increases in traffic via a traffic statistic program or by using Alexa rankings. You can monitor the page rank of your site as Google periodically will update the toolbar page rank based on quality inbound links to your site.

To make your search engine optimization more effective, you should keep in mind that web directory submission is one way of doing it. There are also other ways you can incorporate at the same time to increase the effectiveness and popularity of your web site on the internet.

Usually people think that Internet and the web is, alike. Actually, the Internet is merely an international network of computers and the web runs on top of the Internet, and makes it useful for everyone. How do the webs work?

How was the web invented?

The web was invented 20 years after the start of the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee invented web in 1989. At that point, people had been trying to work out effective ways of sending information around on the Internet. Email was invented in 1971, but there was no system at that time, that could really exploit the net’s potential.

Everything changed with the invention of the web. Berners-Lee’s big inspiration was to apply the idea of links to the Internet: the web was possibly a mass of pages that one could move amid by clicking on links. Format for these pages (HTML), and writing of the first web browser to view them with, as well as the first web server for sending them to other people’s web browsers was all invented by him.

Links were revolutionary at that time though they do not seem much now. Internet access would be useless without the web. As one cannot imagine what the web would be like if one had to keep typing long addresses every time he/she wanted to move from one page to the next, or using long numbered menu systems that work differently from one site to the next.

Browsers and Servers

One is using the web when one is using any web browser like Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox or any other web browser. As these web browsers, works like-

1. When one opens his/her web browser, it goes to his/her home page. He/she can click links to other websites, or to other parts of the same website. One can type in a search and click links in the search results if his/her home page is a search engine. One can type in the address of a site if he/she knows the site address and then to keep going, click on more links from there.

2. A browser looks at two things each time one clicks a link: the name of the web server it links to, and the name of the page it links to on that server. Now let me explain this with an example by using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) the address ‘http://www.sample.com/newpage.html’ tells the web browser to get the page called newpage.html from the server at www.sample.com. Connected to the Internet, this server is a real computer that has the page one wants to read stored on its hard disk.

3. Using DNS (Domain Name System), web browser looks up & finds out where this server is, which turns the text address into a number. This IP (Internet Protocol) address looks like a phone number consisting of four numbers between 0 and 255. Once one knows its IP address, it can easily find the quickest route from his/her ISP (Internet Service Provider) to the server, and start communication. The Internet is set up to make it easy to find a server anywhere in the world. This entire procedure, from DNS lookup to connection, will repeatedly take much less than a second.

4. Web server takes action by sending back the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) code for that page, once the web browser sends an HTTP request to that web server. Web browser turns this code into a page that one can analyze. One can click more links, from there to start the process over again.

One can now use the web to download anything, from pictures to programs, but it all works in the same way. Of course, all this has become quite easy: modern browsers and servers send around much more than HTML code.

One will get an error if something goes wrong somewhere in this process like ‘the page cannot be displayed’, this error means that the server’s name was wrong, or that it doesn’t have the page he/she wants. One might often see errors like “the server is currently too busy with other people’s requests to respond,” or that “the page you wanted has moved.” The best thing to do in each case is to follow the instructions on the error page, which usually means checking the address and trying again.