Joomla 1.5 Tutorial

Joomla 1.5 Tutorial

This Joomla tutorials collection is dedicated to showing you the basics of the Joomla 1.5 CMS. After reading it, you will be able to create a fully-functional website with Joomla in just few minutes. If you don't have a Joomla website yet, you can sign up here for a Joomla hosting account and get a free Joomla 1.5 installation!
Why use Joomla?

Joomla 1.5 is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) you can use to easily create and manage your website. Even if you have little or no webmaster knowledge at all, Joomla will be just the right tool for you! Using Joomla you can set up very fast a website with a professional appearance, choose between appealing templates, create articles, add contact forms, polls, counter, allow user registrations, install plugins for additional functionality etc. And the best of all Joomla is absolutely free (GNU / GPL license).
This Joomla tutorial covers the following topics:

* How to install Joomla via Fantastico
* How to install Joomla manually
* How to customize the layout of your Joomla website
* How to create articles in Joomla
* How to create a Contact us page in Joomla
* How to link articles to the Joomla Menu
* How to create a Poll in Joomla 1.5
* How to create search engine friendly URLs
* How to add a counter in Joomla
* Joomla extension types
* How to install extensions to your Joomla website
* How to change Joomla templates
* How to create a simple Joomla 1.5 template
* How to secure your Joomla website
* How to create a backup of Joomla 1.5
* How to upgrade Joomla 1.5 to the latest stable version
* How to upgrade from Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 1.5
* How to fix the most common Joomla 1.5 issues
* How to convert a static website to Joomla