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Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla!

As someone who has not used Joomla before, it is likely you have no clue how to get started using it. Maybe you have a friend or a neighbour who uses Joomla and you want a Joomla web site of your very own. Maybe you have a small business or a church or a community that needs a web presence and you want to use Joomla for that purpose. Maybe you are a seasoned Information Technology professional, but you have no idea where to get started using Joomla. If so, you are just starting a very enjoyable journey and we warmly welcome you to Joomla and encourage you to read the

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Joomla!
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You should only register if you want to make changes to the information contained here. Also note that registration on this wiki is entirely separate from registration on our other sites, such as the forum.

Helping with the documentation effort
Documentation Projects

You don't need to join the Documentation Working Group to help us improve the documentation. Just register on this wiki and get started. Feel free to fix any errors you find; take a look in the Cookie jar; or consider helping out in one of our mini-projects...

Joomla! Help Screens Project
This project is responsible for maintaining the help screens for Joomla 1.5 using this wiki as a staging area before they are copied to help.joomla.org. We expect to be serving help screens for Joomla 1.6 onwards directly from the wiki.
Joomla! 1.5 Template Tutorials Project
This project is aimed at producing comprehensive documentation covering all aspects of Joomla 1.5 (and later) templates.
API Reference Project
The aim of the API Reference Project is to construct a useful reference manual on the Joomla 1.5 (and later) Framework API which will complement, rather than replace, the automatically generated material on http://api.joomla.org. The starting point for the API Reference is the Framework page which lists all of the classes in the Framework API.
Documentation Events

There are no currently scheduled documentation events, but watch this space for news!

These past events involved the Joomla! documentation effort in some form or another.

Pizza Bugs and Fun 2 - 21/22 & 28/29 June 2008
Second PBF event, plus a second Doc Camp event, equals the first Joomla! Bazaar.
Google Highly Open Participation Contest - November 2007 to February 2008
Hugely successful event for high school and secondary school students. Many documentation tasks were completed.
Doc Camp 1 - 19-21 January 2008
The first ever Doc Camp event took place online and in Vancouver, Canada and Brussels, Belgium.
Joomla! Working Groups
Development Working Group
The main responsibility of the Development Working Group is taking care of the development of the Joomla! application framework and the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS). Besides the development of the Joomla! codebase the Development Working Group defines the Joomla! roadmap strategy, creating (architectural) designs for major and minor versions and of course taking care of bug and security fixes in maintenance versions.
The development working group holds two teams: the Development Team and the so called Bug Squad. The teams have separate responsibilities, but together they form the development force of the Joomla! project. Please check the Development Working Group category page for a full overview of all available pages.
The Development Working Group is also responsible for managing Joomla! entries in the Google Summer of Code.
Documentation Working Group
If you are looking for a way to help the documentation effort, then please take a look in the cookie jar where we have a list of small(-ish) tasks that you can pick up when you have a bit of time and can be completed without too much effort.
Sites and Infrastructure Working Group
The Sites and Infrastructure Working Group is responsible for maintaining a productive, jovial forum for efficient, open communication between everyone involved in the project.
Translations Working Group
The Translations Working Group is responsible for managing Joomla! internationalisation and localisation. Here you will find information on how you can set up translations, how this team is organised, standards to use and so on.
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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.
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Latest additions

  1. 11:24, 20 November 2008 ‎Creating a toolbar for your component (hist) ‎[37 bytes] ‎Devravi11 (Talk | contribs) (New page: this is my toolbaar for my component.)
  2. 17:02, 19 November 2008 ‎Customize the dynamic page title (hist) ‎[459 bytes] ‎Ksookocheff (Talk | contribs) (New page: '''Customize the dynamic page title''' To customize the page title to add the site name followed by the document title, edit index.php in the template that you are currently using. For ex...)
  3. 13:02, 19 November 2008 ‎Will your 1.0 extensions still work? (hist) ‎[540 bytes] ‎Jabama (Talk | contribs) (New page: There is a legacy system in place that will allow extensions that are not 1.5 compatible to continue to operate. However, we strongly recommend that you update to the current version of al...)
  4. 10:53, 19 November 2008 ‎How do you deal with UTF-8 issues in Joomla! 1.0.x series? (hist) ‎[3,864 bytes] ‎Jabama (Talk | contribs) (New page: Many posts raise the issues of using utf-8 in the Joomla! 1.0.x series in spite of Joomla! 1.0.x not supporting utf-8. It is clear that there are community needs for utf-8 in Joomla! 1.0.x...)
  5. 02:21, 18 November 2008 ‎Creating a submenu (hist) ‎[6,036 bytes] ‎Dextercowley (Talk | contribs) (new article illustrating submenus)

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