Steps In Making A Successful Joomla Website

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Joomla is a Content Management System that is a powerful library of all your critical content. There are many components, plugins and modules in Joomla that helps to manage your information.

Steps for building a successful Joomla website are being listed below:-

1] Defining your Business Goals: This is the first step in the process of building a Joomla website. In this step a clear understanding of what the goals for investing your time and money into this project is known. What results you are expecting and what results you want to achieve with this initiative and who else will be involved in the process of achieving these goals. It is a clear understanding of your SWOT that is Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

2] Defining your Project Plan: After having clear understanding and idea of your business goals, you need to develop a strategic plan for reaching up to those goals. Project planning is necessary to be considered for short term goals as well as for long term goals. It needs to have a focused and phased approach that takes into consideration your available time and resources over time ...
... to sustain this project.

3] Deciding the look and the feel of website: The first step towards development tasks with your Joomla project is to define your Joomla website design and choosing template or process of implementing the one. The things to be considered while selecting the web template are graphical design elements which are its color and style, the layout options or the module positions, the features and functionalities which include standards compliance, special modules and capabilities. Joomla template is the foundation for which you build your site and so this decision should be considered important and it should be taken carefully. These templates can be changed in future with little efforts required.

4] Defining Content and Navigation: After knowing the overall look of the website, it is necessary to start mapping out the intended content and collecting any graphics or generating article copy. It is a good time to think about the sections and categories for which you will organize your content and how you want your users to navigate with the best possible user experience. To define your site navigation it is advisable to use a mind mapping tool.

5] Features and Functionalities: Knowing all details properly, you will have a better idea of the types of Joomla Extensions that you will need to implement the defined content you want to present and manage. With so many extensions available it is important to make lists of the options and once you have shortlisted them you can test them on your site once you get it installed. At times you may not find functionalities which you need which then needs to create a development spec that clearly itemizes the features you want to add to an existing extension or for building a custom extension for your website.

6] Installation and Configuration: Once you are done with above things, we can begin the installation and configuration process. Once Joomla is installed the process of configuring for your needs should be implemented. Extensions, templates should be installed once you get the baseline of your site configured with all components, modules and plug-in.

Following these simple steps will give you much more professional website at the end to get the very best value out of your investment.

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