[scotty M]

Hey Jay, I'm learning Joomla right now too. There are modules that supposedly automate checkout, but I haven't tried them out.

I haven't had much luck with the free templates on the net. There's a guy selling a pack of 165 templates on ebay for $10, I might end up buying those.

As far as the membership site, you're probably going to have to do some research on the joomla site. I doubt it'd be too tough. You just don't let people log in without paying you first, and make your premium content members only.

If there are a bunch of us using joomla for the first time we probably should start a new forum somewhere.

It seems that a lot of people are under the impression that you can learn joomla and have the site up in a day. It's pretty easy, but it does take a little bit of time, especially if you want it customized.