Can anyone recommend any great books or learning aids on Joomla? Thanks!

Here's the Joomla Documentation for Beginners - hope it helps!

From site: As someone who has not used Joomla! before, you need to know how to get started. 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 club 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 never Joomla! before...

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Tess is right, the online docs are about the best to learn from as are the forums on the site for specific problems. Joomla has a pretty steep learning curve in the beginning, but it's a cool platform.

There are other CMSs out there such as CMS (cmsmadesimple.org) which are a bit easier to learn and can give you a foundation for working with joomla.

I started off my fire department's website in CMSMade Simple, and then a year later redid it in joomla mainly due to the growth of the site (400Mg).

I'm no expert in it, but i did manage to get the site up and customized so if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask

krys

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yeah, we can do that..

Thanks Ladies! I am gonna read up on the documentation for beginners! So much to learn!!!

Joomla is a very diverse content management system. It can provide as basic as you wish of a website or it can be expanded nearly as far as your imagination can take you. I know nothing remotely like Joomla. I believe there is Droople and Wordpress. But from what I understand Wordpress is really a blogger of sorts. And I can't speak much for Droople but I know it is considered a content management system. Joomla is not something that is easy to learn or should I say to maximize on without some knowledgeable assistance as to what is possible.

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Linda Kassis, Halitek Industries, LLC
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Joomla is not just managing content, per se. It is way beyond that. Joomla has so many commercial and non-commercial open source components available by outside vendors. Additionally, if you don't have a clue about css and you don't have a clue which are preferred open source vendors, you can break your Joomla site in an instant and if you do not have novice knowledge, you will not be able to fix it by yourself.

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Linda Kassis, Halitek Industries, LLC
www.halitek.com

What is open source, some of you may ask. Open Source is software/components developed by a multitude of individuals who choose to dabble and or make a living by going commercial with some of their components. Some make a point of their components being compatible with the most popular of components but the others who don't can make any downloaded component you may try to utilize a nightmare for your site. Again, may break your site.

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www.halitek.com