So, hopefully by this stage we should have completed Joomla and SEO Part 1, making your URL's more friendly. Now, we start to dive into the more time-consuming process- Analyzing and Optimizing your metadata.

Making your site visible and friendly to search engines, is the best thing that you can do for your site. You can have the most beautiful design and all the flash presentations to meet the most vivid imaginations but, does your site perform and are the visitors returning? In this series, I will give you a few tips and secrets that you can use to make your Joomla site, a little more social!

Determining your server requirements can be a very intimidating thing, because of all the technical jargon associated with it.

Joomla runs on roughly 3-4 major softwares. The three most important are PHP, SQL, and Apache.

We need to find a host that supports all of these softwares, and we need to check for the correct versions...

Planning your site needs to cover how you are going to secure your Joomla site. Joomla is well known for being secure, but we can't just assume that there is a perfect solution right out of the box.

Strong Joomla sites have a solid backup plan in place, and a basic security plan. With this article, we will help you learn how to cover some basics in securing your Joomla site!

Now that you have created a good list of functions and basic settings for each, we can begin to pick and choose which extensions we would like to use in the development of your Joomla site.

Bear in mind, you may come up with a good list of extensions you are going to be using, but we need to do some follow up and testing on these extensions. We also need to know what other people are saying about the extension, and what types of support is offered for each...

To successfully build a Joomla site, we need to do an extensive amount of pre-planning before we even start programming Joomla on our server. Without proper planning, we are surely setting ourselves up for disappointments and possible loss of monies in the future. We also need to make sure that Joomla is going to be able to do the job, based on any limitations.

This article addresses some recommendations for pre-planning, which will help you to flush out any obstacles, or unthought ideas and lay out a solid programming plan for your website...