How to Install 230 Free to Use Articles on Your Website in under 10 Minutes

Adding articles to your website can help bring in more visitors. Yet writing and preparing articles can be time consuming. Here's how you can install 230 articles - to start with - in just a few minutes. If you already know how Joomla works with files, many of the steps below will already be familiar to you, so most likely, you'll find that you can install your 230 articles in about 10 minutes or less. If you're relatively new to Joomla, allow about 15 minutes familiarization time.

Some Features and Benefits of Installing AutoArticles 3000

Benefits

• You'll provide immediate access to 230 articles.
• Potentially thousands of additional articles become accessible after a users chooses one of the 230 "start-off" articles. 
• A range of article categories along with links to 3 articles in each category are automatically included after you install the Component.
• More articles are available to access once you choose article to view.
• The AutoArticles3000 Component installation automatically matches the look and feel of your website. Each new link looks and behaves exactly like your native website links.
  
• Once installed and configured, your AutoArticles 3000 Component works fully automatically, so no ongoing maintenance is required from you.
• A "master" article Search box is included on the main AutoArticles index page. The main AutoArticles Search box gives your users access to potentially thousands more article links depending on the article topic you choose.
• A powerful article search option is also included on each article page that allows a user to search through all the articles available in the AutoArticles 3000 databank.
• When a user chooses an article, links to additional articles related to the currently displayed article are automatically shown listed at the end of the article.
• Each article contains the name of the author and optionally the supplier or source website URL / web address, from which you can discover more about the author(s) plus possibly obtain additional articles and other kinds of content.

Drawbacks

• To use the AutoArticles 3000 Component, you'll need a Joomla-powered website. However, Joomla is available free.
• You'll also need some basic knowledge or familiarity with Joomla. Yet, this website and many other sites can teach you all your need to know about Joomla.
• Articles are provided by the original authors. Nonetheless, some articles may still not be formatted correctly. For example, a badly formatted article may appear as one continuous display of text rather than correctly separated into paragraphs with headings and sub-headings. However, the articles are made freely available by the authors and I think you'll agree, are much appreciated. Therefore, since the key value is in the knowledge an article shares with us, I suggest that we can choose to make allowances if article formatting is not quite up to our expected standard on this occasion.
• You can't claim authorship of any article.
• You can't edit any of the articles.

What You Need to Use AutoArticles 3000 on Your Website

• To carry out the quick and easy steps in this article, you'll need a Joomla v1.0.x powered website. To recap, Joomla is a well established and popular web Content management system (CMS) that is available free to download from Joomla.org. If you have a Joomla-powered web design from InternetTIPS.com, you're ready to go.
• You'll also need the install file: com_a3000.zip. You can download com_a3000.zip free from the InternetTIPS.com Download Area. Full download instructions are included below.

Install Instructions: Stage 1 of 3 - How to Download the Install File

For the instructions below, we are using a FireFox web browser. If you're using another browser, then slightly different names may be used. Although we've covered to steps below in detail, in practice, you can download, install, configure and display AutoArticles 3000 in about 5 - 10 minutes.

• Log in to InternetTIPS.com. If you haven't yet registered, you can do so free here.
• On the top deck of the main horizontal navigation bar at the top of the page, Choose "Departments".
• From the lower deck of the main horizontal navigation bar at the top of the page, choose "Downloads".
• From the list of download categories, choose "Software".
• Choose "Joomla Component Add-on".
• Navigate through the software options to find a file called "AutoArticles 3000 Joomla Add-on Component".
• Choose the "Download" button.
• Read the "Member Area File Download Agreement".
• To download the software, click the "I Agree" Option button, then the "click here to proceed" button.
• Choose the location on your PC where you want to download the file then save com_a3000.zip to your PC. An ideal temporary location could be your Windows Desktop. Using a broadband speed Internet connection, your file should only take a few seconds to download. Once you have the file: com_a3000.zip, you have all your need to install your 230 articles.

Install Instructions: Stage 2 of 3 - How to Install AutoArticles 3000 on your Website

To install and configure AutoArticles 3000 on your Joomla-powered website, perform the following steps:

• Log in to the Administrator area of your website. To recap, the web address will be: http://www.YourDomainName.com/administrator.
• On the main horizontal navigation menu at the top of your screen, go to: Installers > Components.
• Under the "Install new component" section, use the "Browse" button and navigate to where on your PC you have your com_a3000.zip file located. If you downloaded the file to your Windows Desktop then you can find your file quickly and easily.
• In the "File Upload" dialog box, click com_a3000.zip to select / highlight the file, then choose the "Open" button.
• After the file com_a3000.zip has been uploaded and installed, your Joomla Administration screen displays a message to show that the file has been installed successfully. If you scroll down the screen, under the "Currently Installed" column, you should see "AutoArticles 3000" listed.
• Now scroll back up and from the top horizontal main menu choose "Components > AutoArticles 3000".
• In the "Categories Manager" screen, you can see all the article Categories that are currently enabled for your installation of the Component. By default, on a new installation, all article Categories are selected. Under the "Required Status" column, you can select or deselect the article Categories you want. When finished making changes, click the "Save" button.

Install Instructions: Stage 3 of 3 - How to Make AutoArticles 3000 Visible to Your Website Visitors

Here, we outline how to link AutoArticles 3000 to your Website Menu. Once you have installed AutoArticles 3000, to make the articles visible or easily accessible to your website users, you'll need to connect the AutoArticles 3000 Component to your menu. In this example, since the "mainmenu" is the most likely area, we'll use that to illustrate this final step.

• To add AutoArticles 3000 to your main menu, in your Joomla website administration screen, from the top horizontal menu, choose "Menu > mainmenu".
• From the top right bank of buttons, choose the "New" button.
• On the right side "Components" section, choose the "Component" link / option button.
• In the "Name" box, type a name for your new navigation button. For example, you could use "Articles", "Articles 3000", "Bonus Articles" or "230 Articles".
  
  Tip: keep the name you choose meaningful but as short as possible.
• In the "Component" list, choose / select "AutoArticles 3000".
• In the "Parent Item" list, choose where you want your new navigation button to be installed. Naturally, every unique website is different. For our website, an ideal location might be to install this new button under the "Departments" button on the top deck of our main site navigation bar at the top of the screen. Therefore, in this instance, for the "Parent Item" we would choose "Departments".
• Next, you'll need to check and if required change the access permissions or "Access Level" for this new navigation button. By default, "Access Level" is set to "Public" - that means, everyone can access the button and therefore the AutoArticles 3000 Component. If you want to set the Component so that only registered subscribers can access and view the articles, then you would set the Access Level to "Registered".
• Now you can decide whether you want to publish your new button and therefore provide access to the 230 articles. By default, the "Published" option is set to "Yes". If you don't want to make your new navigation button visible yet, then set the "Published" option to "No". Later, when you're ready, you can come and set this option to "Yes".
• From the top right side, choose the "Save" button to save your settings.
• (Optional): if your website uses a cache memory to speed up display of pages, perform Step 10, otherwise go to Step 11. To ensure that you can see the latest changes, you may want to empty the cache. If you're using the default Joomla cache, in your Joomla website Admin / Control panel, on the top main horizontal navigation menu, you can go to "System > Clean All Caches" to empty the cache. If you're using an InternetTIPS.com designed website that uses the blazing fast "JRE - Cache Extended", go to "Components > More Components", then choose "JRE - Cache Extended", click "Clean the cache repository", followed by "Click here to delete all cache files within the cache repository".
• Now display or go to your live website (front end). Navigate to where you have installed the new button to access your articles and verify that the button is displayed as you have instructed through your settings.
  
  Tip: to force your web browser to display the latest version of your web page, choose the Refresh or Reload button or command in your web browser.
  
  Tip: if after refreshing or reloading the page, you still can't see your new button, carry out the instructions in Step 10 above, then choose the Refresh or Reload button again.
• Click the new site navigation button or link to display your AutoArticles 3000 articles.

View a Working Example of AutoArticles 3000

You can view a fully functional AutoArticles 3000 home page here.

Generating Income from AutoArticles 3000

The "installation.txt" file found within the WinZip package file com_a3000.zip provides some brief information about how you can install Google AdSense ads within your AutoArticles 3000. However, the instructions given are a little technical, so in a follow-up article and associated video, we'll outline how you can monetize your AutoArticles 3000 articles using your own Google AdSense publisher ID.

Additional Information

Check out the AutoArticles 3000 website.