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Hello,

First, the two questions.

Q1: Yes, this list of steps is the most safe path. You can, however, choose to not use a new database but reuse your existing one. A big warning though: if you uninstalled component on the dev site you will be stuck with leftover tables in the database. If you're not going to use a brand new database, at least empty it before restoration to be on the safe side.

Q2: Ideally, yes. Even though you can reuse the same database, I don't recommend it for the same reasons stated above.

Now, regarding the name of the software. Yes, it's pronounced ah-kee-bah. Before I explain where it's got its name, I have to explain how Joomla! came to be called Joomla!. "Jumla" in Swahili means "all together". The founders of the project simply changed "u" to "oo" so that folks from the States would be more likely to be able to pronounce it without thinking it sounds too "foreign". "Akiba" in Swahili means "backup". I did the same thing as the Joomla! founders and "americanized" the spelling, substituting "i" with "ee". Back then I only had one piece of software, the backup component for Joomla!. By naming it "Akeeba Backup" I paid homage to Joomla! and made an inside joke by essentially calling it "Backup Backup" ;)

Fun story: It turns out that there was a famous rabbi called Akiva. I mean, famous in Israel. There's a thing about Hebrew. They write down consonants only. Vowels are optional and marked on top or below the consonants, like in Arabic. Due to the omission of vowels, B and V may be written using the same Hebrew letter. This leads to a transliteration confusion, as Akiva and Akiba would be the same word. I knew nothing about all that until I went to Joomla! Day Israel back in 2011. I spent half an hour with airport security being persistently asked (borderline interrogated, I'd say) about the origins of my company's name. Only when I was in Israel and talking to my friend Brian Teeman did I understand why. The airport security people were wondering why the heck did I name an IT business after a famous rabbi when I clearly neither speak a word of Hebrew nor am I a Jew. :D

You're welcome!

I have to admin I never thought that concrete would be such a versatile material for interior decoration. Nice site!

PS: Heads up. Some of the links to your image galleries in the front page's article are not working.

PS2: Remember to create a favicon.ico for your site. Right now it's showing the Joomla! logo. Not that I don't like it, but it looks better in bookmarks if you have a distinctive favicon.ico ;)