Someone just dropped me a PM asking for some ideas about first steps when becoming familiar with Xoops. I figured the answer might be useful to others, as well.


What to do first... well, if you are on Windows, XSAS is a self-contained package that installs and configures a XOOPS testing environment on your Windows PC... it takes care of PHP, Apache, and MySQL for you. Very easy way to play.
XSAS

If you don't want that, you can look at this web site to login to a demo of XOOPS and look around.
Xoops at http://opensourcecms.com


In addition, here are the first things I would look at:
Install Guide
A Visual Introduction to Xoops

Once you have installed and have found your way around the basics... try these:
Theme DevelopmentModule Development

I hope that helps.

JackJ did a wonderful job creating a guide for new users called XOOPS for Dummies.