Getting Started Guide: Joomla

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About Joomla

From Joomla.org:
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Installing Joomla

The first step in getting started with Joomla is to install the software. You can easily install Joomla using Fantastico. Please see the following like for more help with Joomla installation:

 

After you've installed Joomla, you're now ready to begin using it. While there are many sources online that can introduce you to using Joomla, you may want to start out by reading the following content on Joomla.org:

 

We also have several Knowledge Base articles to help get you started, which you can find in our Knowledge Base's Joomla Article Category

Further Joomla Documentation

Besides the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Joomla!, Joomla provides much more documentation for using the software, which you can find via the following link:
 
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0 #2 Tim S. 2012-04-20 06:58
Hi samiam,

Thanks for posting your question. Fantastico is a third party product and we do not control the software that is listed in the interface. With that being said, we have a manual installation guide for Joomla 2.5

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/joomla-25/how-to-install-joomla-25

If you need further assistance please feel free to contact us.

Thanks!

Tim S
 
 
0 #1 samiam 2012-04-20 05:50
Do you have any plans to upgrade to Joomla 2.5 in Fantastico?
 

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