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oomla 1.0.x Tutorial Bookshelf

This set of tutorials shows how to install a complete Joomla site. Screenshots are provided for each step.

The tutorials illustrate the installation using a Windows XP desktop and a Unix web server. Since the desktop is only used for transfering and editing files, and most of the actual setup takes place in a browser, these tutorials should be useful for users of other operating systems than Windows, since the operations will be similar.

The tutorials can be viewed in any modern browser. Javascript is required for some functions, such as search.

The tutorials are meant to provide step by step instruction for beginners, although there are a few basic prerequisites:

1. Readers should understand basic computer functions including how to download and install software
2. Readers should understand what a computer file is, and how to copy and delete files
3. Readers should have at least a very basic understanding of what HTML is.

Number #2 seems to be a stumbling block for many computer users who have picked up computer knowledge without any formal training. If you don't know exactly what a computer file is, check out this set of computer beginner tutorials. Knowing the basics of files makes a lot of other computer knowledge much easier to understand.
These tutorials are created with a program called "Screenbook Maker". The tutorials all have a common format called the Screenbook format. Computer tasks are explained via short text descriptions and graphic "snapshots" of the full computer screen - "screenshots".

The screenshots are of screens at different resolutions, but all are displayed with a height of 640 and width of 480 pixels. If you are using Internet Explorer, you can click on "style" in the menubar at the top of the tutorial page, and change the image size. It is recommended that you make the image as large as will fit on your monitor.

If you are using Firefox or another browser, images which were originally larger than 640 x 480 will appear somewhat unclear, because of resizing. Internet Explorer contains a component that can resize screen images without causing a lack of clarity, but this feature doesn't exist yet in other browsers. However, in browser other than Internet Explorer, you'll notice a link under each image that you can click to see the image full sized.

Other items on the tutorial menubar include buttons for moving to the next or previous page, and

* search : quick full text search of all of the tutorials in this "bookshelf". A bookshelf is a set of screenbooks.
* square icon : view this page without frames
* bookshelf : table of contents for the bookshelf (in a frame)
* titles : menu of page titles for the screenbook
* all : all pages of the current tutorial combined on to one page
* thumbnails : thumbnail images with page titles