Most articles will be assigned to a section and category. In many cases, you might not know where you want it to appear so put the article in the uncategorized section. The articles marked as uncategorized are handled as static content.
You indeed can change the menu items type to whatever you want, even after they have been created. If you for instance want to change the blog section of a menu link, jump to the back end and edit the menu item. Push the "change type" button and select the details for the menu you want to assign.
Installing of Joomla! 1.5 is pretty easy. We assume you have set-up your website, and it is accessible with your browser.
Download Joomla! 1.5, unzip it and put the files into the directory you website points to, fire up your browser and go to the page and the installation will start. We refer to the installation instructions on the help site for more information.
Joomla! runs on the php pre-processor. Php comes in many flavors, for a lot of operating systems. Beside php you will need a web server. Most of the times Apache is used, but also php can run on different web-servers like Microsoft IIS. Joomla! also depends on a database, for this currently you can only use MySQL.
Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start. You can even install it on your local desktop or laptop with Windows XP.
No you don't. Versions of MySql lower than 4.1 do not have build in utf-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use utf-8 on older databases. Let the installer take care of all settings and there is no need to make any changes to the database (charset, collation or any other).
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