How To Build A Website With Joomla
By Asep Haryono

Hi again. I am so sorry for being late in uploading my latest information on this site due to I have had many appointments and business contact to attend, and now I have now had time to write again.

Having written many travel tips and notes for several weeks, and now I would like to return to my posting about SEO, Internet Marketing and Blog Monetizing as usual.  Do you think having good and professional website is only for those expert of the Information Technology and design?  No.  That is far away from the true.  Anyone and anybody can get it very easy today.

Today's posting is about how to build a website that is easy, cheap, and ready to go online without thinking more and more about internet codes, scripting , or complicated internet based language. What you have to do now is creating a simple website that looks professional , easy-to-use interface and can be used for many purposes or goals according to your needs.

For the moment, I would like to use a very simple Joomla for your own wesbite.  Do you know the Joomla is used for?. I would like to congratulate for those whose content management system already use the Joomla. There are lots of resources available on the internet which can help you get started by using their excellent resources for securing your website development.


Choose Good Host
If you are living in Indonesia, I would like to recommend RumahWeb hosting and domain services based in Jogjakarta for your quick references to be implemented for your website. My clients were using the rumahweb Jogja, and I have been using their excellent services and facilities from the rumahweb host and domain services for several years.

First of all, you need to learn more about their facilities especially for hosting services, and I recommend you all to check them out now from their direct landing page on hosting services at the rumahweb official website.  You will find more information on the domain names such as com, net , org, or.id , sch.id , or.id and many other interesting domain names including their annual prices.

For general and easy domain name such as com , net , and org can be worth around Rp.95.000,- or Twenty Five Thousand Rupiahs or equal to around $ 9 USD in American currency.  For unique and special domain names such as or.id can be worth as around Rp.75.000,- (Seventy Five Thousand Rupiahs).  As I told you before , you can read them all with clear description at their website here. 

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The method of payment for those who wants to register or using their facilities at the rumahweb host and domain provided based in Jogjakarta, central Java, you can choose any kind of method of the payment such as sending money through bank account and over paypal as well.  For the banks , you can choose Indonesian bank available such as Bank Central Asia (BCA), Mandir, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) , CIMB Niaga and BII as well. You can any bank you like the most.


Choose Good Template
A template is very useful for beginner to own a professional and good looking website with excellent content management system (cms) by using many Joomla templates available on the internet.  Do you know that I am using some free joomla templates for several years ; Siteground  Joomla design and Themza joomla template websites.   You can read and learn their facilities online through their official websites.

The SiteGround has many tools and resources for your new and improved Joomla Templates Gallery.  The latest version of the joomla families are 2.5 type which also valid for Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 1.6.   Some people said that the Siteground  Joomla design was very first company in the world who launched a Joomla 2.5 compatible template.  I have not used template at allbased website.

How about the themza joomla template website?.  The ThemZa.com is a free website as the place on the internet where you can download web templates for free or without paying anything.   It aims at offering a maximum variety of themes for the most popular PHP scripts like Joomla 1.5, Joomla 1.0, Drupal, Moodle & Mambo (CMS); WordPress (blog); 4images (picture gallery) and others. This The ThemZa.com has provided many wonderful Joomla templates for every one to use.  Just simply install the files, and run the script and start do action.  Everything now  is simple. (Asep Haryono)