I think I'm starting to understand...

Crikey! I've been playing with Joomla! and a couple of other Content Management Systems for months now, and last night I had the first breakthrough!

The documentation for new users has been more confusing than helpful to me; I'm one of those bog-picture thinkers. It's no good saying to me "go there, do that, click that button, upload your text here, change that PHP setting". I need to understand how the whole thing links together before I can start.

Last night's breakthrough means I was able to take the guts of my previous site and at least put them in a Joomla! framework; now I can steadily start adding more features using Joomla! as I get used to them.

In case any of you out there are struggling to come to terms with the conceptualisation of Joomla! (just lost myself 4m readers, there, right? "conceptualisation of Joomla!"? What the heck am I talking about?) I've decided to start a blog to

• record my progress so far
• share with other struggling beginners how to get your Joomla! site up and running
• share with you my progress and findings as I enhance the site in future

In my next post I am going to tell you how I got into this pickle in the first place, then what I think the Joomla! beginners' manuals should be telling us but which I cannot find anywhere.

This blog is for

• people new to Joomla! and struggling to understand the overall concept
• people who write Joomla! documentation and want to understand what beginners need to know
• anyone else. I'm not that fussy!

Enjoy

Dave

The site is at http://teamcoachingnetwork.com
Joomla! is based at http://joomla.org