Installing Joomla! in four steps

If you have set up a web hosting account and got the tools you need, you're set to go. Installing Joomla! takes these steps:

  1. Download the Joomla! files from www.joomla.org
  2. Place the files on the web server
  3. Create a database
  4. Install Joomla! itself, using the installation wizard

It doesn't get more simpler than this. The rest of this chapter will give you a detailed walkthrough of this procedure.