Joomla is one of the hottest Content Management Systems in the world. The free and open-source CMS is utilized all around the globe, for a lot of different purposes.
Latterly, using Joomla for blogging has turned into a hot subject. Many Internet site developers and designers use it for their own and client's sites. And now the need for blogging tools is growing. The system essentially has support for blogging built in. There are numerous layouts available to set up class blogs, ie show the articles from a class as a blog set-up. You can work out how many articles to show on every page as well as how many columns to display the content in.
There are a couple of things lacking when blogging with the Joomla standard installation, though. There are an enormous amount of things that are established in blogs today:
- Comments
- Track-backs
- Tagging
- Social media functions
- and more
To get these functions, you can milk some of the over 8000 extensions available for this CMS. There are 3 main approaches:
- Using Joomla with installed plug ins
- Using a content construction kit
- Employing a dedicated Joomla blogging part
Regardless of what approach you select - you'll very definitely be in a position to make a successful blog using Joomla. I have been blogging with Joomla for over two years now and have tested two approaches. I've the system with a mix of installed extensions, K2 and EasyBlog. All these solutions have their benefits and drawbacks. But it depends largely on what kind of blog you are building.
A team blog, a corporate blog, an individual blog. They may all demand a somewhat different approach. You need to test 1 or 2 solutions and see what works for you.
If you already have Joomla skills, you will improve those skills by building a blog with it. If you don't have the skills already, creating a blog with this CMS is a great way to learn about it, as you have to learn a lot of different techniques.
The hardest part of this is fundamentally making the content. But I could leave that part to you.
Latterly, using Joomla for blogging has turned into a hot subject. Many Internet site developers and designers use it for their own and client's sites. And now the need for blogging tools is growing. The system essentially has support for blogging built in. There are numerous layouts available to set up class blogs, ie show the articles from a class as a blog set-up. You can work out how many articles to show on every page as well as how many columns to display the content in.
There are a couple of things lacking when blogging with the Joomla standard installation, though. There are an enormous amount of things that are established in blogs today:
- Comments
- Track-backs
- Tagging
- Social media functions
- and more
To get these functions, you can milk some of the over 8000 extensions available for this CMS. There are 3 main approaches:
- Using Joomla with installed plug ins
- Using a content construction kit
- Employing a dedicated Joomla blogging part
Regardless of what approach you select - you'll very definitely be in a position to make a successful blog using Joomla. I have been blogging with Joomla for over two years now and have tested two approaches. I've the system with a mix of installed extensions, K2 and EasyBlog. All these solutions have their benefits and drawbacks. But it depends largely on what kind of blog you are building.
A team blog, a corporate blog, an individual blog. They may all demand a somewhat different approach. You need to test 1 or 2 solutions and see what works for you.
If you already have Joomla skills, you will improve those skills by building a blog with it. If you don't have the skills already, creating a blog with this CMS is a great way to learn about it, as you have to learn a lot of different techniques.
The hardest part of this is fundamentally making the content. But I could leave that part to you.
About the Author:
Joomlablogger.net is a blog about Joomla and S.E.O. Also, it is a blog built on Joomla. Kristoffer Sandven, the creator and author of JoomlaBlogger, is a proponent of blogging with Joomla and he39;s using Joomla on 1 or 2 blogs. Both non-public ones and for clients.
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