7 helpful Joomla video tutorial resources for you
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When you begin to make acquaintance with Joomla, you certainly need material which assists you in using it. However, sometimes, you cannot read a book with too many pages. Maybe it takes you a lot of time to read, understand, and apply; you might even misunderstand what was written. That usually makes you mad. Therefore, you should find another type of Joomla tutorial resource.
According to what I know, tutorial resources are spilt into 2 types: document and video. The majority of document tutorial resources are shared free on the Internet through blogs, e-books, forum, etc. What about video tutorial resources? In this article, I will introduce you to some useful Joomla video tutorial resources.
Joomla Channel on YouTube
Joomla! Official Channel
- Object: Developers
- Number of Videos: 30+
- Free or Commercial: Free
- Get updated: Subscribe to receive the latest news via emails. (Click the "Subscribe" button on the top).
- Transcription/Text: Available. More details
As we all know, YouTube is a famous video-sharing website, founded in 2005, in which users can upload, view and share videos. Joomla! created an official channel on YouTube to upload videos as well as give the community latest news.
This channel has a few video tutorials stored such as Installing Joomla with cPanel, What is Joomla? Learn about the Joomla! Application , etc. Besides these, there are also other clips in which experts introduce Joomla and related information to you as well as interviews with members of the leadership team. Most of video tutorials are in high quality with good images and sound. It's not hard to understand the speakers in those videos.
However, this channel is actually suitable for developers more than beginners like me. In addition, its videos are quite out of date. There are just video tutorials about version 1.5 and 1.6. No Joomla 2.5 videos are available even thought these new versions have been released already.
Because of the above disadvantages, I will suggest some other resources that can help you more, especially beginners.
Joomla Tutorials
Joomla Tutorials
- Object: Beginners, Intermediate
- Number of Video: 50+
- Free or Commercial: Free
- Get updated: Not available.
- Transcription/Text: Available.
To access the tutorials, click on the tab "Joomla Tutorials". This website guides Joomla users not only by articles but also by animated videos. Video tutorials are arranged into 2 folders: Joomla 1.5 tutorials and Joomla 1.6 tutorials, including many short clips. Every clip lasts about 1 to 5 minutes and displays steps to use Joomla with the direction of mouse movement, in a quick and simple way. You might understand and practice it easily. The quality of each video tutorial is good as well. I learned to install a Joomla template through this website and it worked for me.
In this resource, there is no voice-over in the videos, so it doesn't matter whether you can listen to English well or not.
On the other hand, this website does not have version 2.5 tutorials but only version 1.5 and 1.6 ones.
As a whole, Joomla Tutorials is still a good choice for you if you are a Beginner or Intermediate.
Joomla! Secrets
Joomla! Secrets
- Object: Beginners, Intermediate, Developers
- Number of Video: 100+
- Free or Commercial: Free
- Get updated: RSS
- Transcription/Text: Available. The video transcriptions are available in videos from YouTube.
Joomla! Secrets has a strange style, very "secret", I think. There are a lot of Joomla video tutorials which are collected from many places, but most of them are from YouTube. Because of that, their quality is not always good. The way that these video tutorials are sorted is rather complex. That makes it hard for you to find the video tutorial which you are looking for.
In spite of that, this website is updated quite frequently and has fresh content. All Joomla users can find suitable video tutorial for themselves. Furthermore, it supports all versions including Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5.
Whatever the drawbacks, this website is a good resource that you should visit.
iTeachMe
iTeachMe
- Object: Admin or Intermediate
- Number of Videos: 20+
- Free or Commercial: Free
- Get updated: RSS, Facebook, Twitter
- Transcription/Text: Available
This resource is not rich because it just has 24 videos which are divided into 5 categories: Administration, Content, Extension Development, Installation, Utilities. The quality of videos is good; images are clear and dynamic.
Nevertheless, the voice of the guide is quite quiet and boring. Also, video tutorials are not specific; maybe they are intended for all versions. Nearly all of these tutorials also only support Joomla Admin or Intermediate, hence, if you are a beginner, you should refer to another resource.
Lynda's website
Lynda's website
- Object: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced
- Number of videos: 100+
- Free or Commercial: Commercial(There are only few clips that you can watch freely).
- Get updated: Subscribe to receive its latest news via emails, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
- Transcription/Text: Available
The lynda.com Online Training Library is popular for high-quality training videos. Here, you can search for great video tutorials. (Go the bottom of the page, choose "Software" tab -> "Joomla!" or at the top tab of the page, choose "Software" -> "J" category ->"Joomla").
I think this website is the best one because it has a lot of video tutorials for 4 versions 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5; high-quality videos with lively illustration and good sound. Besides, the voices in video tutorial are very interesting and impressive.
Each course includes separate many short video clips so that you can learn them step by step easily. According to some clips I checked, the duration of each clip is about 1 minute - 10 minutes.
For tutorials, currently, there are 3 authors: Kenneth Crowder, Joseph LeBlanc and Jen Kramer. They are all famous in the Joomla! community for writing books.
In general, Lynda.com is one of the best Joomla video tutorial resources that you should not ignore.
OSTraining
OSTraining
- Object: Joomla Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced
- Number of videos: 100+
- Free or Commercial: Commercial (There are only few clips that you can watch freely)
- Get updated: RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Google+
- Transcription/Text: Available
OSTraining is one of the most popular CMS tutorial resources, including more than 100 video training for Joomla users from low to high level. To enter the Joomla video tutorial resource, go to menu “Online training”, then choose Joomla.
There are two main classes: Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 1.5. In Joomla 2.5 class, video clips are arranged logically according to different levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Template designer along with other categories such as Joomla security, Joomla Multi-lingual sites, Joomla Access control at which you can learn to manage and control Joomla sites; Joomsocial, Joomla K2 which help you to use these famous Joomla extensions in Joomla site.
You will be guided in details via 1 - 10 minute videos by teachers including Vicki Watson, Ed Andrea, Rob Martin.
The only thing you should do now is joining to OSTraining and enjoying classes in here.
BuilaJoomlaWebsite
BuildaJoomlaWebsite
- Object: Joomla Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced
- Number of videos: 100+
- Free or Commercial:
- Free Joomla tutorials for beginners
- Commercial Joomla tutorials for intermediate and advanced
- Get updated: RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Google+
- Transcription/Text: Available
If you are a Joomla newbie and you want to build a Joomla site, this is a great place for you to start. There are 20 clips of Joomla 2.5 in level beginner enough for you to do that in the basic way. And you will just spend a short time to know how to use Joomla easily with these video tutorials in BuildaJoomlaWebsite.com.
Besides, if intermediate and advanced users want to know more things about backing up your site, capture details with web forms, insert a Google Map or just want to be a Joomla expert, you could still watch video tutorials dedicating to you after registering, then buy (for Beyond the basics) or subscribe (for Joomla Pro).
I think you might be interested because each of these clips which last an average of 10 minutes is easy-to-understand with lively images and strong voice.
So, if you like it, why not visit this resource?
Conclusion
I have just introduced some Joomla video tutorial resources. Almost all of them are free for watching, sharing and downloading. You can visit to one or all of them and learn to use Joomla. It's also easy for you to explore them. I hope that this article can help you to find useful tutorial resources. If you know other video tutorial resources, please leave a comment with the links. Your sites will be appreciated!
Comments
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Thanks for your comment. It is interesting and helpful. I think BuildaJoomlaWebsite.com is a good resource, too.
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012I have recently been creating video tutorials to go along with the standard installation instructions that is posted with each extension that I have published on my site. For instance the most popular extension on my site is the 'Easy Like and Share' Extension. It consists of a Module and 2 Plugins, a System Plugin and a Content Plugin. Therefore I created 3 different installation tutorials and published them on youtube and then just put the embed code on my actual site. You can see an example by following this link: Easy Like and Share
Thanks,
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
That sounds nice! I expect to your video tutorials. It will be great!
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Thursday, 26 July 2012
i have try to find some video Article on Youtube but not Success
But Finally ..Here thank you so much for share this resources -
Friday, 27 July 2012
You're welcome. I'm really happy to see it helpful to you
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Wednesday, 01 August 2012
One (entirely self-promoting) vote for http://ostraining.com from me.
Their Joomla tutorials are http://ostraining.com/courses/categories/joomla· Tuan likes this comment. -
Thursday, 06 September 2012Hi Steve,
http://ostraining.com has been added to the article. Thank you for your comment
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Thursday, 02 August 2012
Thanks for your suggestion. It's also a good resource.
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Thursday, 02 August 2012
You're welcome!
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Friday, 03 August 2012
I'm a newbe in Joomla, how to start?
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Monday, 06 August 2012
Hello,
It depends of whom do you want to become ?
Do you want to build a site for your self ? Or become a developer ? -
Sunday, 05 August 2012
Hi Pietre,
You could visit to Lynda's website and find tutorials video for beginner, for example: http://www.lynda.com/Joomla-tutorials/Joomla-Essential-Training/95699-2.html. Tutorials clips are arranged from low level to high level. Some of them are free, others require subscription. But these clips are high quality, I think you will like them. -
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
thanks a lot for the amazing video tutorials,its helped me personalise my website...great work
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Thanks for providing above links
Mon Ngon -
Monday, 17 September 2012
I think what you're looking for is something like Community Builder or Jomsocial. Look those ones up. They will give you a social networking website where each member has their own profile page.
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Monday, 17 September 2012
I'm a newbe in Joomla, how to start
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Monday, 17 September 2012
I'm a newbe in Joomla, how to start
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012
It's useful ,thanks a lot for the amazing video tutorials.
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Thursday, 27 September 2012
Hello all,
I'd like to introduce another nice resource for learning Joomla!
I've recently made a collection of Joomla! Video Tutorials which are avilable on my Youtube Channel and also on my website. To find more about these Free Joomla! Videos please go to:
Related Page on My Website: http://arashtad.com/index.php/jomla-videos
My Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Arashtad
Also we have decided to produce written tutorials according to these videos and then an eBook will be collected available from these tuts on the website.
Follow and Enjoy! -
Monday, 01 October 2012
Hi Amin,
I see your Joomla tutorials you collected on Youtube channels. But the link to the related page on your website is not found. Could you please check it again? -
Monday, 01 October 2012
Hi Amin,
I see your Joomla tutorials you collected on Youtube channels. But the link to the related page on your website is not found. Could you please check it again? -
Friday, 09 November 2012
Videos of Joomla Secrets are not being loaded. What's wrong? How can the problem be solved?
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Saturday, 17 November 2012
I'm a newbe in Joomla, how to start
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Tuesday, 05 March 2013
I live in Bangladesh.In our country , youtube is block -so there is another way to see the vedio.
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Friday, 10 May 2013
Thanks for the list. It is useful for novice. Really appreciate it. Can you also make a list of sites that provide free and premium Joomla templates?
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Friday, 10 May 2013
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A general Joomla tutorial search on YouTube turns up a few decent ones in addition to the actual Joomla channel. But it does depend on the subject you're looking for. This method is pretty good if you're searching for help on a specific extension I've found too.
Also BuildaJoomlaWebsite.com has both free and paid video tutorials to check out...and a good forum too. Levels go from beginner to advanced.