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Now that you have a working Joomla! site, you will want to start filling it with your own content and making it look just the way you want. Before doing that, it is a good idea to learn more about how Joomla! works. There are a number of very useful resources to help you with this.

There are several ways to install Joomla!. First, make sure that you have an account on a web server. For most people this means signing up with a hosting company and purchasing a domain that will serve as your site's main address.

Joomla! is software that lets you make and update web pages easily. You can think of a Joomla! website as bringing together three elements. Your content, which is mainly stored in a database. Your template, which controls the design and presentation of your content (such as fonts, colors and layout). Joomla! which is the software that bring the content and the template together to produce webpages.