A joomla tutorial can save you a lot of time. Unless you’ve installed and worked with content management systems before, it can get more than a little frustrating. Not only do you have to install joomla the in the correct manner (without unzipping the file contents), but you have to worry about setting file permissions, setting up a database, and then figuring out the administrative area of joomla. With a joomla tutorial, the sense of the unknown is removed.

Joomla is not a challenging CMS to learn, but it can be difficult when you aren’t sure of the way a database driven site works, and the way things are organized how do you tell the difference between a module and a component, and does it matter when setting up your site? Like anything, you can probably explore things, figuring it out. But when it comes to getting your site running really well, it helps to have a little bit of knowledge.

Say you might want to set up search engine friendly URLS. Out-of-the-box, Joomla comes with a built-in SEO function, but you need to turn it on. That involves setting up the htaccess file. But the difficulty with the joomla seo function is that it still doesn’t create visitor friendly url’s. You’ll get a much better effect from using one of the addons that were created by the joomla community. There is a number of them to choose from. seo joomla can be achieved by using Artio, Open SEF, SH404 SEF, SerraBiz SEF, or J Promoter. Most of these are free, some carry a small charge.

Joomla has a lot of free templates you can use for your site. There is actually a good number of paid templates too - it makes it very difficult to choose. Some of the paid template sites have things set up as a subscription based service. Their reasoning is that it lets you have the option of changing your templates. I think that’s a ridiculous model for selling templates. Templates aren’t something that is changed very often unless they are dissatisfied with the current one. But by providing a easy to use template, and selling it individually, buyers get a better deal