Joomla!Mate Web Services for the Joomla Beginner

Joomla!Mate provides a variety of free and commercial web services for the Joomla web building beginner. So if you're new to Joomla! or still finding your way with the world's greatest CMS (content management system), Joomla!Mate is the place for you.

Free Services

• Forum - Responses by Joomla!Mate administrator, Laurie McArthur, and volunteer members.
• Tutorials - The Basics.
• Templates.
• Reviews and recommendations of third party Joomla extensions.
• Newsletter.

Commercial Web Services

• Backend assistance.
• Web design and building.
• Tutorials - Beyond the Basics and Joomla Pro.

Joomla! Sites to Inspire You

What You Can Do with Joomla - The World's Greatest CMS

Joomla! Tutorials - The Basics, Beyond the Basics, Joomla Pro

Joomla!Mate presents 19 free beginner, Joomla video tutorials in The Basics series and in the subscription sections,  a further 19 Beyond the Basics and 105 Joomla Pro.

Australian Joomla expert, Richard Pearce, gives free training in all aspects of Joomla 1.5 and 2.5.

Use the free Joomla video tutorials as your rescourse:

• Reasons to choose Joomla as you CMS platform. Consider Joomla 1.5, 1.6/1.7 against Wordpress and Drupal.
• Learn to download and install free FTP and Zip software.
• Download and extract the core Joomla files.
• Install Joomla on your host server via Control Panel (cPanel), phpMyAdmin or Command Line.
• Troubleshoot your installation.
• Understand the Frontend
• Joomla Administrator, where you create and manage your files.
• Create categories to store your articles.
• Create articles.
• Menus.
• Modules.
• Images.
• Templates.
• Extensions.

When you've taken your Joomla website as far as you can on The Basics series of tutorials you might consider subscribing to Beyond the Basics and Joomla Pro.