Setup a new site in Joomla

First task was to set up a default Joomla installation - what’s that you may ask?

It’s what you get when you download the latest version of Joomla, then install it. When you do that you get whatever the defaults are in terms of page layout, colours etc. This is the starting point.

A few obvious questions . . .

• how do you add things
• change the stories that are there
• customise the images
• remove whole columns
• change the menus

We will start examining these things next.

Using Wordpress doesn’t seem the right way to be going about this, but I’m familiar with WP, so I can start passing on my experiences of Joomla immediately - as soon as I know enough about Joomla to set up my weblog using it I’ll move over