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Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website


  


 : Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
EAN: 9780136135609
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0136135609
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: December 21, 2007
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR




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The First Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!-The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System



If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla!-the world’s #1 open source content management system. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find never-before-published tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.



New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts, and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla!’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla!? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5 reference content.



· Understanding content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together

· Building Joomla! sites from scratch, and systematically customizing them to your needs

· Organizing content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables

· Creating dynamic pages and effective navigation

· Working with Joomla! modules and components

· Search engine optimization for Joomla! sites

· Start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, an e-commerce site, and a blog

· The most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: finding them, and using them

· Key differences between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5, and what they mean to you





About the Website

The accompanying site for the Joomla 1.5 book, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla! The site also includes



  • An active forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book from a Joomla expert
  • 5 fully functional Joomla 1.5 live follow-along examples from the book. You can browse the sites and their backends live online.
  • Downloads of 5 free websites for Joomla 1.5 based on various chapter of the book. These are SQL dumps you can import to instantly give you a completed Joomla site.
  • 4 free tutorial templates and 3 free templates from joomlashack.com including the popular commercial template - JS Aqualine!




Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Joomla Rocks!
I am investigating various solutions for a church website. Open source CMS systems appear to be the way to go with Joomla the leading candidate. This book was purchased to inform the evaluation process.

The book and corresponding web site and down loadable examples are fantastic. The book has a conversational style that I found easy to read. Joomla is a complex product and it helps to have some hand holding to get a first tour. If you are contemplating a purchase this book is an ... Read More



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - if you teach Joomla, do not get this book
I totally agree with B. Com, Seacoastbo, John Sutton and Pinar Yoldas. I couldn't express my frustration better than they did.

This book was selected by a previous instructor who taught the intro so I didn't have any choice. I was supposed to teach more advanced features such as templates and extensions. I thought I would just take the projects in the book and go through them with the students.

However, my frustration level got so high that I decided to spend time writing ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Complete & Understandable...
This book gives thorough coverage on the Joomla content management system. The most difficult concept to get is how the system actually displays content using articles, components, modules & menus. Don't give up on Joomla until you've read this book! The author explains these concepts & more in a logical format that is easy to follow. I tried one of the Dan Rahmel books 1st & it was worthless. This is a ginormously better book!!!



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - excellent book
This book really got me started with Joomla. There are some gotchas with a CMS that don't make intuitive sense until someone lays it out for you step by step, and this book did that very well. I'm a technical person but mostly I work in system administration... Web programming is not my area of expertise and beyond a little html I wrote a hundred years ago, I went into Joomla with zero preparedness. But with this book mostly read, my new site is well underway and my thanks go out to Barrie.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best of the best!
I have been working with Joomla for 2 years now. Creating a great design has always been a struggle for me. I won't say this is the only book you will need but I will say it should be at the top of your list of resources in your arsenal! Barrie has a way of explaining the information in a way that makes it understandable. The overall content is rich and very detailed! I can find what I am looking for and the explanation is thorough! One of the strongest points is not only the resource of an experienced ... Read More




 



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