With this Joomla video tutorial, you will learn how to create a custom Thank You Page for any Joomla 1.5 Site. On this video, I will be only showing you how to display an image on the custom page, but because that page is a normal HTML page, you can insert or embed videos, music, or any text you want. You will need to have basic knowledge on HTML in order to insert a more customized HTML code. Use you own imagination to create the page that best fill your needs.

After successfully installing Joomla on your machine, you can now start creating and managing your website content. Joomla makes the complex task of managing your website very easy. You need to login as your website’s administrator and start creating and organizing your content in the Joomla Administration section.

The Joomla Administration section consists of various screens called Managers used to manage and organize particular specific website design functionality and features. The Managers can be easily accessed from the top menu in the administration section or from the control panel screen.

So now that you are convinced that Joomla is the best choice for CMS, let’s get started with installing Joomla tutorial. You can either install Joomla on your local machine or on the web server. This tutorial will focus on installing Joomla on your local machine for testing on your own machine.

So have you forgotten you Joomla 1.5 admin password? Well I have bad news for you, the thing about the admin password, is that you won’t be able to recover it. I know it seems scary, but what you can do is replace that unknown password for something that you will know. That is what you are going to be learning on this video tutorial.

Now on this video, I’m using a Linux server with a CPANEL utility, if there is a chance that you are using a Windows server, it is going to be different. Also some Linux servers don’t come with the CPANEL utility, so be aware of that. What you can do in that case is, you can contact your hosting company and ask them how to access your Database from the Joomla site that you forgot the password.