You have probably heard of Joomla. It's an open source CMS project. It's constantly updated and upgraded by thousands of coders who provide it's users with new features and options. It is different than any other CMS, yet very similar. What makes it exceptional is it's wide sphere of possibilities. It's easy to create a social networking Joomla websites, maintain newsletter lists, make membership sites, update and maintain content without knowledge of code, and many other, thanks to numerous extensions and plugins.

You can google for Joomla extensions and you will get surprised how deep the rabbit hole goes.

This tutorial is for beginner Joomla users who want to know how to arrange website structure, edit content, add images, use newsletter components, etc.

What is a CMS?

CMS – Content management system – the name itself tells you that you can manage the content of your website without knowing any html code (in 90% of the cases). Joomla is a CMS that edits the content in html as you edit it in your predesigned editor, looking similar to MS Word editor. Also, it has many components, plugins and modules that allow you simplified control over normally difficult to handle parts of website (video galleries, login modules, polls, guestbooks, calendars, etc.).

You will understand everything once you get involved with your first Joomla website.

Read further to get the basic knowledge of running it!