Administrator Preparation

The experience of people who use MDPro ranges from experienced site administrators to those who will be creating their very first site of any type. If you
are one of the latter, you have a lot of preparation and learning to do
before you will be ready to install and configure MDPro or any other
CMS.

Please understand that it would be an imposition on your part to ask basic questions
on our forums. We are all volunteers and we spend what time we can discussing
MDPro. We don't have the time to teach webmonkey basics.There are other
resources better suited to that task. It is your responsibility, not ours,
to educate yourself on the basics that will enable you to successfully
administrate your MDP site.

It is much like many classes in school or college. You need to take a basic class
to prepare you for a more advanced one.

A good place to start is HTML Goodies. They cover many of the things you will need to know with easy to follow tutorials, many written for the beginner.

Things you will need to be familiar with

CSS (cascading style sheets)

HTML (hyper text markup language)

Operation of a compression program

Operation of an FTP program

Permissions (chmod) for files and directories (i.e. 644, 666, 755, 777)

Tools you will need

A compression program such as WinZip. This will be used to uncompress
program and module distributions.

An FTP (file transfer protocol) program. You will use it to transfer
files from your computer to your MDPro installation.

See TUCOWS for your program needs.

Recommended software

phpMyAdmin The easiest way to administer a MySQL database is with phpMyAdmin. It not only aids in creating databases and editing and deleting tables and dabases,
but allows you to backup your databases as well.