How Does Joomla Work?
January 17, 2010 under FAQ
how does joomla work? can it help me to build a forum website quickly? can it also work with some online payment program? does it include login page and allows registration for different user?
do I have to install joomla on my computer in order to make it work?
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Joomla is a Content Management System. it consists various modules (Like forum, payment,rss,useronline etc), in which Forum is one of them.you can select the module from the site setting.
for forum you can also try “YETANOTHERFORUM” (www.yetanotherforum.net/) or PHPBB etc.
yes to all of your questions!! except the last question!!
the following 3 steps you need to complete
1. find a physical store (find a server/virtual host)
you may rent or do it by yourself or but it
Rent-means you need “virtual host” (search engine can help you)
Do it by yourself - find a computer and set it as a server
2. put your commodities in your physical store (uploading your contents to server)
Web contents are placed to the server(photos or words
any function you need can install in this stage (joomla or xooops CMS)
3. name your physical store (domain name setting like http://www.tsmmc.com)
let visitors can link to your website by setting DNS server
you may set such server by yourself
try outsourcing of it - you will save a lot of time
Yes to all of those questions.
It is a CMS built on php. If you install Php/Apache/MySQL all you have to do is extract joomla into your HTDOCS folder.