Normally, you create user accounts in order to grant access to administrative parts of your site or allow your visitors to post their content.

In order to create a new user you will have to go through the following steps:

1. Log in to the administration panel of your Joomla! web site
   
   Open a new browser window and enter the corresponding URL. This would be something like http://www.your_site_name_here.com/administrator
   
   Once the page is loaded, log yourself in as the site administrator. Please note that other accounts might not have the rights to add new users, depending on the granted access level.
   
   
2. Open the User Manager
   
   After logging in, go to the Site menu item, situated in the upper-left corner, right under the green bar separating the site header from the content area. In the opening menu select User Manager.
   
   
3. Add the new user
   
   On the newly opened page, press the New button in the upper-right corner. This will open the new user panel where you can enter the user data. Now, let's fill in the user details:
   
   Name - this field will contain the user's real name, like John Smith
   
   Username - this would be the user or login name to be used to log in to the site, like jsmith or yellowbird67
   
   New password - here you can enter a temporary password that you will send to the user so it can log in for the first time. The user will be able to change this later to something that is easy to remember. A good rule of thumb for choosing a safe password is to use small letters together with capitals and numbers while having a minimal length of six characters. A good example would be p9HWc0Ak.
   
   Verify password - here you have to reenter the previously choosen password just to make sure there was no typo in the first one
   
   Group - choosing the correct group to assign your user to may be crucial for your site's security so pay attention when setting this up! There is no golden-rule for choosing the user group except maybe for this one: "Keep the rights as low as posible". Normally, you wouldn't want to assign the  Administrator role to just anyone. The Manager role is somewhat weaker but will enable the user to edit your sites content.
   
   
4. Once you are done entering all the information above, click the Save button (the floppy disk icon in the upper-right corner). If you have enabled the user (by setting the Block User field to No), it is now able to log in using the usename and login you have set.