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Before you jump into making your own articles, categories, tags, web links, contacts, banners, and news feeds, you may want to review Planning Your Web site. There are many aspects of creating a web site to consider. For example, deciding if you want to enable Search Engine Friendly URLs and how enabling or disabling Search Engine Friendly URLs later will destroy the rankings your pages acquired with search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo.

Perhaps you already have a website. Then you should read "Converting an existing website to a Joomla! website" and learn more about converting your static website.

One of the first tasks you may want to do is to modify one of the templates that comes with Joomla! so that it displays your site name and logo.

How to replace the logo image in the Milkyway template Scribd by deckers.olivier
How to modify the default Template Scribd (Note: the document is an old version and some practices and advice may not be current.) by Chad Windnagle (drmmr763).

Finally, you may want to install one or more of the thousands of extensions to Joomla!. Most Joomla! extensions are listed in the official Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED). Once you've found an extension to install, Installing an extension will tell you how to install it.

Please remember that all extensions are developed by independent developers. If you need help with a specific extension the best source will be that developer.

Getting Help in the Joomla! Forums[edit]

<translate> The Joomla! forums are the among the busiest (and most friendly) support forums in the world, and they are a great place to get help and meet other Joomla! users.</translate>

Before posting, check the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the docs wiki.</translate>

Please make certain you search the Forum post before posting a question. Nine times out of ten someone else had the same issue that you had.</translate>

Make sure you are posting in the right forum and Joomla version for your topic.</translate>

Be clear and specific in your request for help. Entries like Help! It doesn’t work tend to get ignored. Try to explain everything that led up to your problem. Try to explain what your problem is. Be clear about what you want to happen. And, thank those who bother to help!</translate>

Use the Forum Post Assistant (FPA) to help you provide more information and better explain your problem.</translate>

If your question/problem was solved, mark your thread as solved by editing the first post you made in that thread and changing the topic icon to the green check mark with a circle. You can also add [Solved] as a prefix to your topic title. By doing this you allow other members who are doing searches to easily differentiate between solved and unsolved issues. This also saves the volunteers' time of having to open up solved topics.</translate>

As soon as you know things, start answering questions. Answering questions is one of the best ways to learn.
If someone helps you, say thank you and pay it forward by answering a question yourself.</translate>

Here are some quick links to specific Joomla! forums commonly used. General/New to Joomla! 3.x Questions, Joomla! 3.x Template Questions, Joomla! 3.x Extension Questions, General/New to Joomla! 2.5 Questions, Joomla! 2.5 Template Questions, and Joomla! 2.5 Extension Questions

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-Now you're ready to start making your own articles, weblinks, contacts, banners, and newsfeeds. Before you jump into doing this you may want to review [[Planning Your Web site]]. Or if you want to convert your current website to Joomla!, read [[Converting an existing website to a Joomla! website]].
+Before you jump into making your own articles, categories, tags, web links, contacts, banners, and news feeds, you may want to review [[Planning Your Web site]]. There are many aspects of creating a web site to consider. For example, deciding if you want to [[Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs|enable Search Engine Friendly URLs]] and how enabling or disabling [[Search Engine Friendly URLs]] later will destroy the rankings your pages acquired with search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo.
-Before you do anything else, you should decide if you want to [[Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs|enable Search Engine Friendly URLs]] ([[Search Engine Friendly URLs|described here]]). Enabling or disabling them later will destroy the rankings your pages will have acquired with search engines.
+Perhaps you already have a website. Then you should read "[[Converting an existing website to a Joomla! website]]" and learn more about converting your static website.
 One of the first tasks you may want to do is to modify one of the templates that comes with Joomla! so that it displays your site name and logo.
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 Please remember that all extensions are developed by independent developers. If you need help with a specific extension the best source will be that developer.
-For help visit:
+===Getting Help in the Joomla! Forums===
+{{:Beginners/Getting Help}}
-* [[jforum:428|New to Joomla!/General Joomla! v 1.5 Questions]]
+''Here are some quick links to specific Joomla! forums commonly used. [[jforum:706|General/New to Joomla! 3.x Questions]], [[jforum:713|Joomla! 3.x Template Questions]], [[jforum:715|Joomla! 3.x Extension Questions]], [[jforum:615|General/New to Joomla! 2.5 Questions]], [[jforum:619|Joomla! 2.5 Template Questions]], and [[jforum:620|Joomla! 2.5 Extension Questions]]
-* [[jforum:466|Joomla! v 1.5 Template Questions]]
+<noinclude>[[Category:Landing subpages|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>''
-* [[jforum:470|Joomla! v 1.5 Extension Questions]]
-* [[jforum:262|Joomla! Extension Directory Questions]]<noinclude>[[Category:Landing subpages|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

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