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Today I attended the Joomla Training session put on by Steve Burge of the Joomla Training and Alledia fame. Besides being a supremely nice guy, he was awesome at taking beginners through the Joomla ropes in a clear and concise way.

The majority of the class was made up of people who had used Joomla for less than a month, but there were a few of us that had more than a few Joomla sites under our belts. Even so, the way Steve presented many of the Joomla concepts were brilliant and gave me ideas of ways to better explain to a client how to work the website I just built for them.

My fellow Joomla freelancer, Cory Webb, came down from Waco to cameo during the section about managing templates. His presentation was equally thorough and bite-sized enough for the brand new users. I understand why Wrox picked him out of the sea of Joomla freelancers to write an awesome book for them.

Even though the Joomla Training wasn't geared towards me, I'm really glad I got to go, if for no other reason than to  help some of the new people through the exercises we did during the class. If you're looking to learn more about Joomla, I highly recommend attending one of Steve's classes while you can. The ability to see someone walk through a demonstration and be able to ask questions right there is pretty invaluable to the learning process. However, if you can't swing the cash or the time to attend, definitely pick up one of Cory's books: Beginning Joomla Web Site Development.