Tufuga Media

After nearly 7 months of using Joomla! as my content management system (CMS) or web platform, I decided to change to WordPress.  I’m a firm believer that its important to fit the tool to the job, and not the other way around.  I have decided to change the focus of my website a bit.  I believe that WordPress is better equipped to help me do that. (more…)

Those of you who are frequent visitors of the website will observe that I have redesigned the website.  I have changed platforms as well.  I am moving away from Joomla! to WordPress.  I will update this blog soon with more details as to why.  For now, leave comments as to how you like this website.  Mahalo! (more…)

I never found a step by step video tutorial on how to install Joomla, a popular content management system (CMS).  I design web pages, but I am not savvy when it comes to coding, servers and the like.  So in this tutorial I step you through how to install Joomla.  I show how to do a local installation on a Mac computer using MAMP, a free utility you can download from their site.  The steps I show are nearly identical for those hosting their websites on webservers.  Just be sure to have access to a CPanel or a way to create a database, and add users to it.  You will need the username and password, so keep them handy. (more…)