Best way to learn Joomla?

[Nick997722]

Hello, I am looking at using Joomla for building out my CMS. I've got a fair bit of programming experience (my day gig is C# and ASP.NET programming) so hope I'll be able to pick it up pretty quick.

It looks like the user manual is a really good resource and likely sufficient for learning Joomla, any other suggestions for other / better places to start?

Also does anyone know of a good open-source .net based CMS? I've done some searching but haven't really found anything that appealed to me. I would want something that would work with mySql on the back-end as I wouldn't want to lay out the $$ for MS SQL Server.

Thanks.

[losercore]

I found very few good ASP open sourced CMS's while searching in the past. The good ones all cost money.

If you want to learn joomla go to www.mambohut.com

Great site and even video tuts for just about everything. I quickly learned to do a lot with Mambo/Joomla.

The only ASP I have used was dotnuke. It's ok I guess. Not really what I wanted. I found Joomla way more suiting. You can pretty much customize Joomla to your own look and feel.

[Nick997722]

Sweet, thanks for the link! Looks like great tutorials... yeah from what I was able to find if you want something decent in the ASP world it seems ya gotta' "pay to play".