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Quite a lot of the advantages that come with using Joomla! Among them:

1. Could add extensions package. That is, the application package that can be installed into the Joomla! To add to its function. If referenced in the portal Joomla! already more than 4300 more extensions that have been uploaded, although not all we can use for free.

Among them, could have a contact menu, create a blog on the website, can create a forum on the website, and so forth.

2. Joomla! has many community gathering place for website users of Joomla!. Through this community we could each question and answer, submit articles, find friends and communicate among members.

3. Because it has been specifically designed as a portal, the Joomla! so any suitable web.

4. The Joomla! also an open source product.

Behind the excess, Joomla! also has some Disadvantages of Joomla!. Among them:

1. If used for SEO, still not good enough. Although there are plug-ins for SEO.

2. If installing a video on the Joomla!, It still feels slow process.

3. Still difficult to collaborate with Blogspot and Wordpress as domains Joomla!

Downloading and Installing Joomla! 

Before installing Joomla, then the first is done in PHP, msyql, and Apache. Now all three can be simultaneously installed. How to download in www.apachefriends.org / en / xampp-windows.html.

If you've finished downloading, install. Way too easy to install, ie just click Next. If you want to apply, just click on the Start button and msyql appache that status to Running.

How To install Joomla!: 

1. Visit the Joomla! The www.Joomla. org

2. Click Download Joomla!

3. After that extract the file to a folder, then the folder you copy the program to a file in c :/ program files / xampp / htdocs /

4. Later, open your browser and type in http://localhost:80/Joomla (according to the name of the folder you wrote down earlier). And do not forget to activate the service and mysqlnya.

5. Having performed the pre-installation check, then you can just click the Next button that appears in the installation steps

6. Contents hostname with writing local host, username root, password is left blank, databasename filled in as you see fit, new click Next.

7. On the Configuration page, fill sitename to the name of your site, Your Emails with your email, Admin Password with your password, the Admin Password Confirm re-type your password earlier. Then choose the option Install Default Sample Data, and click the Install button. Finally, click Next

8. If you install Joomla! has been completed, then you have to delete the folder c :/ program files / XAMPP / htdocs / Joomla (the folder that you created earlier). Now, have completed the process of installing Joomla!

As a Joomla developer focuses on progress of software platform, the newer version will come out with added features. I have gone through the process of upgrading from several versions, including Joomla 1.5.6, Joomla 1.5.7 and now the latest version of Joomla 2.