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In this tutorial you can learn how to make a tutorial.

A tutorial is a lesson that takes you by the hand through a series of practical steps. It offers a learning experience by doing something. It is the best way to get to know a subject you are not yet familiar with.

In this episode we will use Joomla Component Builder to build our example event schedule component.

Diátaxis is a methodology to improve documentation by dividing it into four categories, serving different needs. We are going to use this approach to improve the documentation of Joomla, but you can also use it to document your own extension or write user manuals for your clients.

In this episode we will use Component Generator to build our example event schedule component.

What is the current state of Joomla’s documentation? What’s new and different? What are the future plans? How can you help?

Our journey until now In this series we want to show some tools that can help to build components for Joomla. The first four episodes were mainly to introduce the example, show some implementations of it without building a component and...

In this episode we will expand our example component, mainly by using features that are built-in into Joomla. And we show some tools that can help us setting up a custom component.

Finally we will build a real Joomla component for our example event schedule! We’ll explore how to implement relationships between entities. 

In the second episode of our building-tools adventure we'll delve deeper into our event schedule example and explore how to implement it using two Joomla application builders — Seblod and Fabrik. We'll not yet create a full component, instead we’ll embed our application within these extensions. By doing so we will also get a better understanding of the requirements for the component we want to build in subsequent articles of the series.

You probably know Joomla is THE tool for creating websites, because it's really complete straigth out of the box. If you need a little more, you could use one of the thousands of extensions available in the Joomla Extensions Directory... or create your own. In this series, Herman Peeren takes us through the options.