Joomla! Documentation™

• Begin by Test Driving Joomla!
  • Test Drive Joomla!
• Complete the Quick Start Guide
  • Read the PDF file written by Kevin Hayne.
  • At the same time walk through Michael Casha's video guide.
• Read these Guides
  • Learn Joomla! Fast by Saurabh Bhide.
  • Or the Joomla! Magazine Article Learning Joomla! Using Sample Data.
• All technological solutions come with their own language
  • Learn The Language of Joomla!
• Installing Joomla! on your own computer - it's called localhost to distinguish it from remote hosts. Two approaches:-
  1. Watch the video by Andrew Altamirano (slogen123)
  2. Use Jumpbox which provides a self contained instance of Joomla!
• Check out the Joomla! Installation Instructions
  • The Installation Manual
• And if you get stuck why not enquire on the Forums

• • Joomla! 1.5 Support Forum with lots of sub sections.
    • Installing Joomla! 1.5 forum board

• • • Joomla! 1.5 Extensions forum board

• • • Joomla! 1.5 Templates forum board

• • • Joomla! 1.5 Security forum board

• • Look at this tool to help you obtain help more easily from the Forums.

• • • which describes the tool and its installation.

• • • to find the download in several languages.

• • • For it to work you must install it in the root directory of your Joomla installation.