Website Domain

Website domains are the most important identity of a website wherein almost every web designers are competing for similar names to gain greater attention than the other. The most commonly used domains has either of the extensions: .COM .ORG and .NET with the dot before the three (3) letter suffixes. In this site's case, you can get hold of your unique website domain by clicking here, which will open a site that sells the cheapest and reliable domain names online. Go on by clicking Domain Checker to select the domain of your choice and purchase it.

However again, if you are just looking for a free website domain, you may want to avail of the free domain registration offered by CO.CC by signing up, finding a website domain name for you, registering it if it's available and setting it up by directing this choiced domain name to the server ip address of your website hosting server, in our case, to philcyb. And these server addresses are emailed to you upon activation of your account at philcyb.

So that's it! Everything you'll ever need have your own website buildup. If ever you have questions to every blogs I've made, please don't hesitate to post your questions and/or comments below every blog.

If ever you have questions to every blogs I've made, please don't hesitate to post your questions and/or comments below every blog.

Website Hosting

One of the major components for a website to exist online is a Website Hosting Server to take hold of your site and present it to the world wide web. There are lots of free website hosting service providers online. But in the case of a Joomla website CMS, this site recommends one of the helpful sites capable of hosting such CMS package, and that is PHILCYB. All you have to do is sign up using your GMail account, selecting a subdomain of your choice. Once activated and there are no errors found, you will receive through email the access detail to your account which includes FTP, CPanel, database. You will also receive details of links where to administer your website as well as what user and password you will need to use to access MySQL Database, FTP and CPanel. Most likely they are all the same user and password and you may change it later if you want. Also for a start you will have your site on philcyb subdomain (Ex. yourname.philcyb.com) with the contents of the congratulations. But you can edit this later through CPanel or FTP access. That simple.

However, if later you lost the feeling of using just a subdomain at philcyb, you may purchase a website domain of your choice that suits your desire. Click here to continue with website domain.

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Website Blogging

The easiest way to create your own website is to create a blogsite at http://www.blogger.com. It is simple and easy to manage. Just visit their site and take the tour. tour here

What is a Blog?
Publish your thoughts
Engage your friends
Design your blog
Post Photos
Go Mobile
Start Website Blogging

If blogging is your game, then all you need is Website Blogging at Blogger.com. Everything you need is all right here. Website Hosting, subdomain under blogspot.com and other gadgets applicable to your site can be enabled at Blogger.com.

Yet if you're doing fine with your Website CMS, customized to the website template of your choice and only wanted to avail of free website hosting service as well as free domain registration, then you may proceed to the next blog by clicking here.

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Website Templates

Website templates are layouts in website buildup, as well as its page elements, font types, colors, sizes, widths, columns, headers, background. Everything that comprises the front-end of a website. There are thousands of free website templates for Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress which are available online for download. Free as it may, the big issue is this. Some templates could not be edited or customized to satisfy your desired looks. Some templates are also limited to very few basic module positions.

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However, if all these CMS and templates things are still new to you, skip this and try to start Wesite Blogging with Blogger.com, the fastest and easiest way to create a website. Click here.

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Website CMS

Being resourceful as I could try to be, I have always searched the web for information on how to explore Joomla, the best website CMS I've ever used!

In a simple understanding, there are 3 major components needed for an individual website to appear online: (1) Hosting Server; (2) Domain Name; and (3) the website itself (in our case - Joomla!). This site recommends you to start exploring to build your own website on your personal computer and to work locally off the internet. But first you must download the 3 softwares (Joomla, Xampp and Filezilla) in order for you to start working locally. Here's a simple lay-man instructions for preparing a website LOCALLY in your Windows Operating System.

A. INSTALLING XAMPP

1. After downloading the latest XAMPP Software, extract XAMPP to [ C:\ ] or to any root directory you wish to deploy your "local server"
2. Using Windows Explorer, Open XAMPP directory [ C:\xampp\ ] and double click the file "setup_xampp.bat" enabling Apache Server, PHP, MySQL and Filezilla to identify the remote directory for their operations. Double click filezilla_setup.bat to enable FTP software - a tool for uploading files remotely. (This command is done once only)
3. Now, every time you start your computer and wanted to update your website locally, you need to double click apache_start.bat and mysql_start.bat.

Now your XAMPP Server is up and running and ready to serve you on your website installation, update and upgrade.

B. INSTALLING JOOMLA

1. After downloading the latest Joomla 1.5.x Package, extract all files it to a directory of your choice inside [ C:\xampp\htdocs\myjoomla\ ] in this example we'll use "myjoomla" as my site's directory.

2. Open your internet browser (in my case, I prefer to use Mozilla Firefox. Please download the latest Mozilla Firefox by clicking on the left column link that say Get Firefox) and in the address bar, type http://localhost/myjoomla and press enter.

"You must use localhost if the computer you use stands alone and is not connected to any network. In most cases if your PC is connected to a network, you might as well replace localhost to your computername or ipaddress. computername can also be used locally"

3. This will open the installation page of the Joomla Package. Select Language then click Next. In the Pre-Installation Check, make sure that all the system meet the minimum requirements , all items are expected to be marked as YES. Proceed by click Next. Read the GNU Public License then Press Next. In the Database Configuration, database must be set to mysql (default), Host Name - localhost, Username - root, Password - (leave this blank), Database name - myjoomla_db.

"Note that when setting up your websites online, these database information may vary and are sometimes provided by your hosting service provider especially the host name. But in most cases, you are advised also to create this database separately in cpanels they provide including its username and password.

Press Next. In the FTP Configuration we'll leave it disabled for in our case, we'll be using FILEZILLA in uploading our files. Pressing next will bring you to the Main configuration asking you to enter the name of your Jooml! site. The real email address of the administrator and the password. In this example, we'll use site name - My Joomla!, email address - myjoomla@email.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and password - admin. Now if you want to install the sample data to view the actual posts of data in different module positions just click the Install Sample Data button. You may click Next when there is a comment that says Sample Data installed successfully. Now your first Joomla! site is installed. The last thing and most important thing to do is to open your directory [ C:\xampp\htdocs\myjoomla\ ] and delete the installation directory or you may rename it to any unfamiliar name like reinstallation or anything you desire for you might reinstall it again.

Congratulations! you have now your first joomla installed in your local pc. check it out in your web broswer. To view the front-end type "http://localhost/myjoomla" in your web browser and press enter. Add "/administrator" to login to the administration page. use admin (default username) as user name and admin as password and press enter to open the administration panel.

For more information on how to explore Joomla! download the quickstart guide by right-clicking this link here and selecting save as... RIGHT-CLICK HERE AND SAVE AS....

By the way, you may want to use your own concepts of layouts for your site, check out Website Templates Blog. click here

Thanks to all the Joomla Developers!!! Mabuhay kayo!!!

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Website Contact

Step 1. Open any internet browser (Ex. Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.).
Step 2. At the address bar, type gmail.com and press enter.
Step 3. Somewhere along the lower right, click the create an account button.
Step 4. Enter the required details:

• First name and Last name
• Desired Login Name (only available login names can be created)
• Password (minimum of 8 characters in length)
• Re-enter password (to verify the password you entered)
• Security Question (select a security question that fits you or you can create your own security question)
• Answer (the entry that answers your security question)
• Secondary email (type an existing email address here)
• Location
• Word Verification (type the letters in the image to verify that you are a human being and not a robot or program of some kind)

Step 5. Click I accept and create my account button.

Now you're done. You may login anytime using your complete gmail address and password to access your emails.

One last thing. You can then sign up for a free hosting at philcyb.com and avail of installing website CMS in your subdomain using their fantastico scripts.

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What is a Website?

Personally, I would define a website is the digital media prepared by an individual, entity or company, exposed in the world wide web to show certain information of products, profile and other relevant matters made available for sales and attention. In simple words, websites are online information. As far as I know and have seen, there must exist three (3) menus in a website.:

1. the Home, where every browser is directed primarily and main information are addressed;
   
2. the About Us, or the profile of a certain individual or entity is stipulated, how it started, what it does and how they do it; and
3. the Contact Us, where details on how to get in touch with a certain individual or entity are indicated.

In a website, having a Website Contact menu, page or link is an added advantage, may it be email address, postal address, telephone number, fax number, mobile number as long as visitors to a site could get in touch with them and obtain appropriate responses from them. These website contact details enables sites and site owners more credible than those without. Email addresses are more commonly used as website contact than postal addresses. And there are a lot of popular mail servers online that offer free email services such as GMail, Yahoo and MSN. In this site's case, we use and recommend GMail.

Now there are different ways to do website buildup. Most of them are still built using the basic language called HTML. Readable codes but are tedious to prepare. There are better options such as WYSIWYG and Frontpage. Where all you have to do is prepare your posts and designs and the program does all the tedious HTML coding. For newbies, the most recommended package in website buildup are the website CMS or the Content Management System. Website CMS has a front-end (for visitors to view) and a back-end (for administrator to manage their site contents). In other words, its like creating your contents first and then points them to the pages
where they would be displayed while in pure HTML, every pages needs to have another HTML codes. There are lots of website CMS-based package online that are free, like Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress. In this site's case, we recommend Joomla.

Joomla, probably the best CMS package ever developed online. Its latest stable package is version 1.5.14 (as of this date), is bundled with free website templates. Having these three (3) website templates for Joomla package can start your website buildup days. Although there are a lot of free website templates online free to download, some of their elements are not that suited to your requirements and needs. Yet, you can also have customized website templates for your Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress CMS using Artisteer.

But if you arenot ready for exploring website CMS, you can still divert yourself into website blogging first by signing up and logging in at www.blogger.com where you can start blogging immediately. And you'll website blogging has never been this easy to sewtup and customized. These sites are hosted by Google for free.

Now speaking of website hosting, if you still want to use a website CMS in your website buildup, there are lots of sites online that offers free hosting and installation of your CMS package can be done instantly through their Fantastico Script installers. One site that we could recommend is philcyb.com. All you have to do is sign up using your gmail account, activate and if there are no errors, your account is activated instantly.

Lastly, having hosted for free at philcyb, gives you a subdomain in philcyb as yourname.philcyb.com. But you can still have your own top level website domain, by purchasing one to at any affordable domain sellers. Or you can have one that is free at CO.CC.

So explore now ang have your own website as soon as possible which start with signing up for your own official website contact details.

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