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[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

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<em>@instantinlaw 22392 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m going to have to look into that one too Peter.
Thanks for the link. :)</blockquote>

Ok so i’m new at all this.

what’s a cache?
where and how would I install the download.
honestly I have never install any components or mods or anything yet.

I wll read up on these things as I go, last month I didn’t know anything about Joomla.

Small steps and all that…

[thetravellingdr Friend thetravellingdrJoin date: March 2007Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#228677

<em>@mfcphil 26513 wrote:</em><blockquote>Ok so i’m new at all this.

what’s a cache?
where and how would I install the download.
honestly I have never install any components or mods or anything yet.

I wll read up on these things as I go, last month I didn’t know anything about Joomla.

Small steps and all that…</blockquote>

Hi mfcphil,

Welcome to the Joomla Community. I was in exactly the same position as you 18 months ago. There is a lot to learn about Joomla BUT you don’t need to know everything to in order to get underway – in exactly the same way that you don’t need to know everything about a car in order to drive it. The best advice I can give you (speaking from experience) is STICK TO THE BASICS. If you have never installed components or anything then you don’t need to know about a caching component (keeping with car analogy – its like trying to under a direct fuel injection system before you’ve even learned about the gear stick!!). The Joomla forum is the best source of information. There are a number of threads aimed at helping beginners.

Start here: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?board=49.0

Two other bits of advice – K.I.S.S – keep it simple stupid 😉 and have a little patience. SPend lots of time reading on the forums. A very large number of people have gone before you and pretty much every question you can think of will have been asked and answered before.

Good luck
Iain
😉

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#228702

Thanks very much indeed…I really am enjoying this Forum…hope I don’t this crash the car into a wall :p

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#228707

mfcphil;26513Ok so i’m new at all this.

what’s a cache?
where and how would I install the download.
honestly I have never install any components or mods or anything yet.

I wll read up on these things as I go, last month I didn’t know anything about Joomla.

Small steps and all that…[/quote]

Hi
Sorry for the delay in answering.
A cache component will speed up your site if you have a lot of content and heavy graphics. It does this by cacheing content on your server much like your browser does when you visit a site, and the next time you visit the site it loads faster because you already have the pages & graphics on your computer.
The component goes a little further by reducing the numbers of calls to the database which can slow down a site’s loading time if there is a lot of content.
Having written all this Martian to you, I suggest taking The TravelindDr’s advice until you gain some experience with installing and configuring components.
Good luck.

instantinlaw wrote:

Hi mfcphil,

Welcome to the Joomla Community. I was in exactly the same position as you 18 months ago. There is a lot to learn about Joomla BUT you don’t need to know everything to in order to get underway – in exactly the same way that you don’t need to know everything about a car in order to drive it. The best advice I can give you (speaking from experience) is STICK TO THE BASICS. If you have never installed components or anything then you don’t need to know about a caching component (keeping with car analogy – its like trying to under a direct fuel injection system before you’ve even learned about the gear stick!!). The Joomla forum is the best source of information. There are a number of threads aimed at helping beginners.

Start here: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?board=49.0

Two other bits of advice – K.I.S.S – keep it simple stupid 😉 and have a little patience. SPend lots of time reading on the forums. A very large number of people have gone before you and pretty much every question you can think of will have been asked and answered before.

Good luck
Iain
😉

Great advice TD

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#229155

Thanks people….with your help and advice the hard things are getting easier, next for the really tricky stuff!!!

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