If you want to learn how to use Joomla and you are not familiar with it and you using it for the first time, then you might encounter some difficulties along the way.
Although it is one of the best Content Management System there is right now it is not that easy to use for a beginner.
The manual provides little assistance since it does not take the perspective of a user who is not familiar with the system.
Still once you have learned the ropes in using it the system can be provide you with a lot of help In the years that I have used Joomla I have come to realize that it only takes several steps in knowing how to use Joomla template.
Here is a simple guide on what you can do.
The initial thing that you have to do is to make a map for the site that you are planning.
The map can be three levels deep.
For example if you want to create a site for a massage service for example the main level should be the home.
The home can then branch out to the two others which are services and the products.
Those two can then branch out to others until the it reaches the end level.
After making out the site map you can then create the sections on the Content management System.
After that you have to make categories under the sections and you can do that under the Category Manager.
then you write the articles that will be contained on your site, using the article manager.
Use the Menu option to make a menu for the link which has to be enabled.
That is the final and last step in using the system and one that many people tend to forget and they end up wondering why no menu is showing on their site.
It may sound complicated but once you have done it, you are sure to get the hang of it soon enough.
Like anything else, practice is the key to mastering it, so do not miss any opportunity to try your hand with the system to familiarize yourself with it.
It may not be as user friendly as many people would like it to be but once you become an expert in using it, that is the time when you can fully appreciate the beauty of Joomla.