To start out make sure it is part of a section and a category 2.develop content in what you see what you get editor 3.add images by entering image URL, or selecting it from list under parameters 4. enter metta tags in parameters. 5. click apply, then check your site. 6. if everything is good press save, if you messed up bad close out and changes will be erased once you get Joomla installed and depending on your hosting provider this could be one step or many, The most important thing for developing content is creating articles, which is a standard what you see what you get editor found on many blogs and forums. content is are organized in hierarchal structure from top to bottom as follows, sections, categories and items all nested within another, if a higher level is not published the lower level will not be, each item needs to be in a category and then the category must be part of a section. each level can have a piece of published content, but that can get confusing and messy, it is best to put all your published content in items. it is a little confusing. to create your first piece of content click the big button in the top right that says "new" to add pictures you can either go to media manager, or FTP them into the images folder, you then can add them through the graphic user interface/WYSWYG editor, when FTP-ing images stay away from the templates folder. this has an image folder in it as well as other duplicate folders, the template folder holds the images and CSS that creates the layout of the site, you can change this later or at the beginning either by downloading a template and editing it or creating one from scratch. installing a template is easy, it is just like installing, modules, components or mambots, in Joomla 1.0 the template installer is located under templates in 1.5 it is under installers. to install anything all you have to do is click browse and then upload the UNZIPPED zip file, Joomla will unzip it for you. changing the CSS or HTML of the site is easy, all you have to do is click templates then edit CSS or edit HTML. Now back to your article or piece of content. once in the WYSWYG editor click the little image icon just like in so many other editors you see on forums and blogs . you then must locate your image on the computer type in the URL of the image where it says to do so and it should pop up right there, everything else is your standard What you See What you get editor, the link looks like a little chain, B for bold U for underline etc. the parameters section on the right can be very useful, you can control whether to display the Joomla Defaults such as time and date and certain headings, you can also add metta tags and link the article to the menu, you can also add images through a different way here by selecting it from a list, you have less control over where the image is placed though. Always close out of an article by pressing cancel or save if you don't it cause an error that can come back to bight you, to fix this click "Global Check In". while in Joomla do not use your browser navigation only Joomla buttons. Don't be afraid to explore the drop down menu but be wary of making changes. most changes made can be clicked back into their proper place but exercise caution.