Joomla! Documentation™

Joomla! A Quick Start

Welcome to the world of Joomla! Joomla! is a powerful, flexible Content Management System (CMS) with a huge amount of community support. Which, when you start out can present a problem! Where do I start? Which parts are important now? How do I get help if I'm stuck? This page is an attempt to provide you with the resources you need as you begin your journey with Joomla! And, if you cannot find what you want here, please feel free to leave a comment on the Talk:Addacumen talk page and we shall see if we can help.		Contents 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! Play with Joomla! to see what it can do. Installing Joomla! on your own computer. Watch the video by Andrew Altamirano. Run it on Amazon EC2 $0.20/hr (not worldwide) Sign up and go. Use Jumpbox 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 This tool will help you obtain better Forum help. which describes the tool and its installation. to find the download in several languages. It must be installed in your Joomla! 1.5 installation root directory. The box below shows some popular beginner pages which address a variety of problems you may meet. ENJOY
The varieties of Joomla! There are three varieties of Joomla! each of which is a major step along the road of its development. probably not for a beginner. This is where Joomla! started now some years ago. This link leads to the Legacy Documentation. The current stable version. This is what beginners who want to build a web site need. The links in the box to the right are about Joomla! 1.5 The next version of Joomla! which will be available shortly. Should that worry you if you are beginning now with Joomla! 1.5. Absolutely not because the migration path from 1.5 to 1.6 will be smooth and straightforward.
The path to Joomla 1.6 We are getting close to the release of Joomla 1.6, but we need your help to finish it. If you are a developer then please look in the development cookie jar for a list of tasks we need help with. If you see something that takes your fancy then follow the instructions to claim the task and start working on it. You can see a summary of overall progress on the development status page.

Joomla! Resources

Popular Beginner pages

Other items of interest

Joomla! User Groups

Why not join a local Joomla User Group (JUG)? Find out more in the JUG Resource Centre

Legacy documentation

Documentation for the Joomla! 1.0.x series can be found on the old help site.

Finding stuff on this wiki

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License

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