Joomla Installation

Here's a simple tutorial for beginners to install Joomla in localhost:

1. install XAMPP server in your C:
2. Find a Joomla! installation zip file in Joomla! download web page
3. Create a folder in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs. Name it as you want as your site's name will be
4. Extract the zip file in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\{your_site}
5. Start your apache and mysql in XAMPP Control Panel Application
6. Go to your web browser, type this url: http://localhost/{your_site}
7. Choose your installation language. Click Next
8. Pre-installation check: you skip this. Click Next
9. License: skip this. Click Next
10. Database configuration:
• Database type: mysql
• Hostname: localhost
• Username: root
• Password: leave empty
• Database name: give a name, usually same as your site's name. Then click Next
11.  FTP Configuration: skip this. Click Next
12. Main configuration:
• Site's name: give a name
• Your email: type in your email address
• Admin's passwd: this will be the password when you open the backend using username Admin
• Verify passwd: type in the same password as above
• Install default sample data: install. Click Next
13. Open your C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\{your_site's_name}. Delete 'installation' folder
14. Your site is done. To view it, go to http://localhost/{your_site's_name} with your web browser
15. To start configuring it, go to http://localhost/{your_site's_name}/administrator. Log in with username admin and the password you have configured during installation

Happy configuring!

Potty Training Tips

Hi! I believe there are still many of you having problems with potty training your children. Here are some tips (Well at least it works for my daughter):

1. Avoid using disposable diapers from the very 1st day you come home from delivering at hospital, except for outdoor activities.
2. After 6 months, he/she will start eating foods, thereby his /her poop will become more solid than before. From this time on, don’t let him /her poop in his/her pants. Use a portable potty instead.
3. When he/she’s 8 months old, he/she’s capable of sitting straight. Now use a toilet ring instead of portable potty.
4. When he/she’s 1 year old, you can start taking him/her periodically (every 1~1.5 hours) to the toilet. Let him/her pee in the right place. You may just wait form him/her to pee to study his/her pee-time pattern.
5. Keep studying his/her pee-time pattern to choose the best time to take him/her to the toilet to pee.
6. At his/her 20 months old, start not wearing diapers when you take him/her out. Just take him/her to the toilet before you leave, and when it's time to go to the toilet again when you're still out, find a toilet there as soon as possible. Just in case, always bring along extra pants and a plastic bag.
7. Wait for the miracle! After about 2 months, he/she will go to toilet on his/her own. Even when he/she's sleeping at night.

Hope this helps you!

Still no teeth on 1st b'day? Don't worry....

Yes, you're right. Children's first tooth or teeth should already come out of their gums by the age of 6-7 months old. But some babies' don't. No worries. This also happens to my daughter. A few days after her first birthday, her first tooth hadn't emerged. So I and my husband took her to a child specialist dentist (in Indonesia, a.k.a. SpKGA: Spesialis Kesehatan Gigi Anak). The doctor said that it was normal. It didn't mean that she was lack of calcium or else. What we should notice is that all of their 28 teeth must be emerged by the age of 32 months. The doctor was right. A week after our visit, our daughter's first teeth showed up.