For students of IT we strongly recommend attending the monthly meetings of the advanced/developer Joomla Users Group. They meet every month to provide support to each other in University College London's Engineering Building and is for professional and semi-professional website developers.
We cover all that is necessary for building a website in these 2-hour sessions but it is only a basic platform for the development of a fully operational website. After attending the introduction session you are welcome to join 80+ subscribers to the E-Literacy Programme to learn how to build and develop a professional website. Alternatively there are numerous textbooks, websites and videos showing how to use the Joomla content management system that will enable you to build websites on your own. Attending the E-Literacy Programme introduction sessions and workshops is the quickest way to build a professional standard website i.e. www.nomanono.com. Also important is the exchange of information about services that are helpful to you in your enterprise such as free government office space.