i'm using joomla on my blaa-blaa website. Purely for convience. I'm in the middle of my final year in college and i dont have the time to dedicate to creating a website which will have up to 8 contributers writing articles for it.

Joomla was the obvious choice, i purcahsed a template for the lads from joomlashack.com and all i need to do now is teach them to use the system which should be fun

tbh blacknight there aren't that many resourses which are too helpfull for joomla yet. As for a tutorials, i presume the dw tutorial for creating a mambo template would work with joomla. I'm not 100% sure thou
http://www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/

I got a nice ad sense module for joomla from these guys
http://mambo.medspan.info/mambo-downloads/
Works perfectly, the adsence module comes with default data so those sneaky guys who wrote the module are probably making a packet from people installing the module and thinking "whhaa heeyyy ads on my site already, that was simple"