Welcome to Joomla Wiz - Free Tips, Tutorials and more

Hello and welcome to the website! I hope to become your resource for learning just how powerful Joomla can be for your website needs. I've been working in a Joomla environment for several years now. When I first started, I knew absolutely nothing about PHP, MySQL or CSS - and thanks to Joomla and many late nights of hair pulling and screaming, I feel I've got a decent grip on this great content management system.

Joomla Wiz Blog

Welcome to the Joomla Wiz Blog - Learn about mastering Joomla and get tips and tricks for running a stable Joomla website.

tutorial

Jul 24

2007

Backup your Joomla site or move to a different server

Posted by Administrator in tutorial, server, howto , database, backup

Since I recently did this for a client, I thought I'd create a quick (well, maybe not so quick) and easy (ok, not so easy either) tutorial on how you can backup your Joomla site and move it to a new web host.

Since Joomla is made up mostly of files and folders with a MySQL database, we'll want to backup both. The best way to start is to create a backup folder on your PC and then:

1. Using FTP, copy your Joomla site's configuration.php file over into your backup folder.

[Read Full Post...]

Comment (0) | Read More...

Jan 18

2007

I'm New to Joomla, Where do I start?

Posted by Administrator in tutorial, howto

For this article, I'm going to assume you've managed to get Joomla installed on your website host and now you're looking around in the back end and unsure what to do next.

[Read Full Post...]

Comment (0) | Read More...