Hello all,

My name is Scott and I'm one of the founding members of Stickfiguresoftware. I am writing this for all those people out there who are just starting out with Joomla. Now I first want to start off with a little intro to explain where I'm comming from. First I am not a programmer but I do know a few things about computers. I have taken a few programming classes and I even built my on home PC, so I do know a few things about what I am talking about. One of the first things I have found out is that all open source software has poor documentation and what documentation I have found and read usually forgets about the guy who is juststarting out. Even though you may have found a book on the suject what I have read so far still thinks you have experience with a databases, servers, and admin setups. Well after my experience of trying to set up my Joomla on a local host I am here to tell you, the basic user,how to set it up. I will go through the downloads, instructions, and some of the problems I had of setting up Joomla on my machine. During all of this if anyone has any suggestions or comments I would love to hear them.

Thanks.