Joomla Newbie, I’m sure you are going to ask “What the hell is SaaS? Why is it a good start for me?” And I assure that you will be interested in the things I’m about to say, just as many of my clients were before.

SaaS is short for Software as a Service, sometimes referred to as “on-demand software”. That means the software is distributed as a service by some vendor or company over the Internet. To put it simply, service providers will create and maintain the software for you when you hire them.

So what is Joomla SaaS?

Joomla - proudly known as an award-winning content management system - is a kind of software used to build websites. We call it Joomla SaaS.

There are Joomla service providers willing to take care of your Joomla! based websites from A to Z. For instance: Cloudaccess.net and SimplWeb.com. These two providers are well-known in the Joomla service market. Apart from CloudAccess and SimplWeb, you can find some other Joomla SaaS providers on the Internet such as 040hosting.eu.

Let me clarify a little bit about them for you.

CloudAccess

CloudAccess is the official host of the Joomla! Demo site. Users can take the opportunity to experience Joomla on their network with free hosting provided by CloudAccess for 30 days. If you want to test your new website or simply learn more about Joomla, get access to the Joomla! Demo site and make use of CloudAccess's benefits.

I have bumped into many problems while getting acquainted with Joomla so I have collected these 10 most popular Joomla FAQs with the hope that you - Joomla newbies - will learn it faster and easier.

Here they are:

1. What is the difference between a template and an extension? 2. Should I use Joomla 1.5/1.7 to build my website? 3. If I switch to use another Joomla template, will the current information be lost? 4. How to edit Joomla templates? 5. How to place an internal link into an article? 6. How to remove article directories? 7. How to get videos to play on my Joomla website? 8. How to remove or change the "Welcome to the FrontPage" title? 9. Where to get Joomla templates and Joomla extensions? 10. Which books do I need to learn more about Joomla?

If you are interested in them, let's get more details:

If you're non-photographers, I know for sure that you, designers or bloggers, are in need of free images for your websites, brochures or blogs most of the time. I understand it perfectly as I am not a photographer either. This means we hate having to look for images uploaded by other photographers.

In this post, I will share with you some good sources for free stock photos. You can use them in whatever format you like; but remember that you should be careful in regard to copyright laws when you choose images. According to the Berne Convention, a photo is copyrighted from the moment it is taken. When the photo is uploaded onto a website and you happen to fall in love with it, then want to use it in your own product, you must cite the photographer’s name and the source.

Here are a few good free stock photos that I've collected. These free image sources usually cooperate with commercial image sites as advertising channels. That's why there are some fee-required images inserted in free image sites at times. You need pay attention to this in order to avoid being directed to somewhere else. No worries,in this article I will advise you of the sources that partner-up with commercial image sites.

If you use Joomla to build websites, the question “Which Joomla extensions should all websites not be without?” must come to mind, at least once. That is the reason why there are plenty of articles with the key phrase “Must-have Joomla extensions” on the Internet.

Each article has its own list of essential extensions based on the author’s experience and here you are going to see another list that helps you build solid websites.

Before going on with ten more Joomla 1.7 native extensions, we hope that you are all pleased with our first ten Joomla 1.7 extensions in round 1.

Mosets Tree

	Compatibility: Joomla 1.0 & 1.5 & 1.7 License: GPLv2 or Later Reviews: 109 Votes: 169 Type: Commercial
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Mosets Tree is a directory component for Joomla! You can use Mosets Tree to run a complex Yahoo! style directory directly inside your Joomla website. Mosets Tree is designed to handle any data that requires a directory structure such as a business directory, links directory or scripts directory. Because Mosets Tree runs on Joomla!, you have infinite possibilities to include more features to your website by using third party extensions from Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Mosets Tree is the directory extension that powers Joomla! Extensions Directory. These guys have been extremely excited to be working with the Joomla! Team to develop JED. Every feature you see in the Extensions Directory is available in Mosets Tree, except for a few customizations that are specific to Extensions Directory.