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There really is no Joomla asylum, but there are things you should know before you go template hunting ... 
Without the right people, your toobox is empty. Install this process with all your Joomla projects ... 
The Content Engineer is the star of any successful Joomla effort. Don’t start a project without one... 
It’s very easy to screw up a conversion project but it can also be easily avoided if you follow these rules... On fresh installations of a Joomla site, you might end up with "Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License" or something similar in the footer. In the old version of Joomla (1.0) you could remove this via the footer.php in the includes directory. In 1.5, you need to make the change in the language file (en-GB.mod_footer.ini)
As for the legal side of this: It's fine to remove this entirely. There's no requirement to have "Powered by Joomla" anywhere visible on your site. What is required is that the copyrights within are not modified within the source code (things visitors can't see).
In our case here, we modified that line to remove the link to Joomla, and got rid of "free" as that too often implies that it has no value. Sadly, this is one of the area of open source GPL could use some help. Our footer now just lets people know we are running Joomla 1.5. (it's best not to publish the exact version as that's just one more thing to change each time you upgrade)
