Joomla Development- Upgrade your Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5!

Joomla is one of the open source Content Management Systems, trusted and liked by millions for blogs and website developer. Joomla 1.5 and 1.7 support is no more available from Joomla, don’t worry your website won’t stop working. But if you are still on Joomla 1.5 then it is prone to security issues and hackers, if immediate up-gradation is not taken into consideration. Whether you are using Joomla for e-Learning or Joomla e-commerce website, it is advised to upgrade it immediately to enable advance security features. Up-gradation will get you advance Admin tools and control your website easily.

Best part which is tempting is the “promise of one-click upgrade” to Joomla 2.5. Now in this article we will discuss how.

All you need is Joomla Admin Tools for up-grade.

Built in auto upgrade in Joomla 1.7 can lead to problems, if your site is hosted on cheaper host providers. The servers provided by the host may not have the capabilities to run your site with new updates. As a result your site can run into many problems due to your host server. The solution to this problem is pretty easy. If you have installed latest “bij Akeeba” in your website admin area, you simple upgrade your site to latest version of Joomla! 2.5 With just few clicks.

How to up-grade your Joomla 1.5 and 1.7 website easily

1. Always remember to back-up your site first, before you run update and upgrades. If something goes wrong you will have option to restore the previous settings from the backup.

2. Be sure your site is equipped with latest version of Admin tools.

3. Open the “Akeeba” admin tools and it would have already prompted for the latest version of “Joomla” just click the button and follow the instructions precisely.

4. Admin tools are designed will all possible exceptions, so don’t worry 99% of the upgrades are successful. Again upgrades strictly depend upon your host capabilities.  Before going for up-grades do check the upgrade requirements form the http://Joomla.org and cross check with your host provider. The main aim is to be safe than sorry.

When the upgrades are done you can enjoy the new world of possibilities called “Joomla”. Up-grades are important irrespective of the website you are running, if you are an e-learning website, you might require to add videos or other eLearning tools like “LMS kings professional”. So up-garde today and unlock your world.