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First, telling newbies who complain they should help with the documentation is like telling guy who's 5'6" he should go out for his college's basketball team. Sure, it sounds clever and everybody should make a contribution to the old school spirit, rah, rah, one for the Gipper and all that, but get ...

If you search in the archives you'll see I made the same comments about Joomla months ago. Well here's the problem in a nutshell: Writing step-by-step tutorials are very different from writing in general. Mainly, it's a lot less fun. It involves the kind of thinking most people would rather not do -...

First, thank you to all the people who have tried to help. I appreciate it, I really do. But the point I was trying to make is that the basic concept of a tutorial is not understood here. In virtually every resource in your vast source of resources each writer does the same thing: describes the func...

I've tried all the cms's and never have I encounted such poor documentation as Joomla. It's ridiculous. No instructions on how to install a template. No instuctions on how to install mambots, modules, components. No basic instuctions on how to make sense of the logic behind news items, newsflashs, i...

What you are asking for is a way to do it without doing it the proper way. Use the zip file and install it through the backend installers like everyone else. No, what I'm asking for is basic instructions, which, in fact, is the title of the thread. I'm also pointing that there are no basic instucti...

Have you been to m ? The link to it is right at the top of this forum, and at the top of most all of the joomla.org sites. Also the FAQ forum has a number of good tutorials and informational posts to help everyone.  This one may be a good place for you to start. m I can't help wondering whethe...

Installing the akocomment module is a good example. Sure, the install package feature is available in Joomla, but what if you have no way of getting the zip file on your desktop. My zip utility automatically unpacks all the zip files. And what about the mambot, can you just drop it in the directory?...

I know Joomla is open source, but I still don't understand why basic information like how to install a template, module, or mambot is not provided in one central place. As it is, it seems I have to do a search everytime I want to do something that's very basic. And please don't tell me to "Post your...