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These older versions of our free course, The Basics, are listed here for archival purposes only. View The Basics for Joomla 3.
Welcome to The Basics - a free series of Joomla video tutorials for beginners. This is the original getting started with Joomla course that we have been teaching online since 2008. Now fully updated for Joomla 3, this course has been watched by tens of thousands of students worldwide. But the best part is that all 16 lessons and the 100 page accompanying workbook are FREE! You can watch this course here or at our sister website Site Skills:
If you're looking to get started with Joomla 3 quickly and easily, you're in the right place. Just because it's free doesn't mean that you get a cut-down down version of another course. Yes, we do have an advanced Joomla course, but The Basics teaches you all the essential Joomla concepts so you can get your first website built in record time.
Learning Joomla is a bit like building a brick wall. Many beginners have a basic foundation - they understand the essentials of websites. Then they start piling on a few bricks here and there. But as their wall of knowledge is constructed, it's full of holes. Eventually they hit a point where their wall can't sustain any more weight and it collapses.
What a waste of time!
This course takes a step-by-step approach to building Joomla websites. Each lesson builds upon the previous one, so your wall is solid. So whether you're looking to save money by building your own website, or if you're an existing web developer needing to learn Joomla, you are in the right place. Join the thousands of students who have taken this course by starting today.
A comprehensive workbook with loads of screenshots is included to save you time. You can also ask us any questions via our forum.
This course is recommended for Joomla beginners
Section 1 | Overview | |
1 | Introduction | 14:43 |
2 | Why Joomla? | 13:49 |
3 | Requirements | 11:17 |
Section 2 | Installation | |
4 | Demo Site | 4:53 |
5 | Quick Install | 8:59 |
6 | Standard Install | 15:47 |
Section 3 | Concepts | |
7 | Frontend | 11:32 |
8 | Administrator | 8:39 |
9 | Categories | 10:25 |
10 | Articles | 7:33 |
11 | Menus | 7:40 |
12 | Modules | 12:36 |
13 | Images | 10:02 |
14 | Templates | 17:13 |
15 | Extensions | 11:47 |
16 | Conclusion | 6:31 |
Welcome to our free Joomla video tutorial course called The Basics. Your first lesson is below - just click the video to start playing. Navigate to other lessons using the links in the right column.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This series is for Joomla version 1.5, which is no longer supported. If you already have a Joomla site running version 1.5, then go ahead and watch this series. But if you're new to Joomla, you should be watching the Joomla 2.5 tutorials.
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