If you've visited our Joomla site before, you've noticed some changes. 

We changed web hosts and it is such a hassle to transfer a CMS website that we just decided to rebuild the website instead of transferring it. 

We're going to leave the site pretty much as it is when you install it.  We did change the template.

If you are a first time website author, we don't recommend any CMS for your first website.  We recommend you dig around on our main website at www.createafreewebsite.net and learn how to build websites with simple HTML.

If you decide you want to create a website with Joomla, we'll make only 2 suggestions to get you started.

First - get a Mozilla browser.  Joomla doesn't like any IE browser.

Second - visit the main Joomla site at joomla.org.  Search the components section for JoomlaXplorer and let it be your first component installation after you install Joomla!   You'll need it to manipulate the files on your Joomla site.

Then when you get ready to start modifying the website, go back to Joomla.org and learn to live in the Visual Tutorial section.

Joomla is the best of the free CMS software packages.   Unfortunately, NO CMS is for beginners!!

For screenshots of the Joomla Administrator, which include the editor and how to add images to web pages, click here!!  

SiteReptile CMS

There is one CMS that I do recommend for first timers.   It is called SiteReptile. 

SiteReptile is a simple CMS that does not use the MySQL databse.  It creates its own flat file database.  Because of that, it runs faster, the editor works more smoothly and the websites created using the tool will run about ten times faster than a conventional CMS website.

You can get SiteReptile free, with free web hosting at Createasite.net. And get this, No Ads on your web pages and enough bandwidth for about a million visitors a month.  Sounds to good to be TRUE, but it's totally free.