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The Best 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! 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 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! 1.5 reference content.

• Understand content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together

• Build Joomla! sites from scratch and systematically customizing them to your needs

• Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables

• Create dynamic pages and effective navigation

• Work with Joomla! modules and components

• Search engine optimization for Joomla! sites

• Start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, an small business site, and a blog

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

About the Website

The accompanying site, www.joomlabook.com, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla!

Chapter 1: Content Management Systems and an Introduction to Joomla!

Chapter 2: Downloading and Installing Joomla!

Chapter 3: Joomla! Administration Basics

Chapter 4: Content Is King--Organizing Your Content

Chapter 5: Creating Menus and Navigation

Chapter 6: Extending Joomla!

Chapter 7: Expanding Your Content: Articles and Editors

Chapter 8: Getting Traffic to Your Site

Chapter 9: Creating a Pure CSS Template

Chapter 10: Creating a School site with Joomla!

Chapter 11: Creating a Restaurant Site with Joomla!

Chapter 12: Creating a Blog Site with Joomla!

Appendix A: Getting Help

Appendix B: Joomla! Case Studies

Appendix C: A Quick Start to SEO

Appendix D: Install WAMP5

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 75 Ratings

A Great Go-To Companion On Your Joomla Journey - 2009-10-14
Reviewer Rating:
Barrie North is the friend you want in your corner when you're learning the vast possibilities afforded to you through the Joomla content management system. I went from absolute beginner to a confident Joomla designer and developer building upon the lessons learned from this book.

Though this manual offers great technical lessons it also explains to you the inner workings of the system in terms that will educate the novice without boring the professional.

I actually took this book on vacation and read it cover to cover. The well-organized and easy-to-find information make it a handy reference long after you have your first site up and running. I often go back to take in the information that I skimmed over the first time and find that there really is an encyclopedic bounty to be found within its covers.

And, the book is just the beginning. Be sure to check out North's definitive site with tutorials, tips, downloads and reviews galore. When it comes to Joomla, this is the bible!

Rick Ortiz,
editor, [...]

Unstructured - 2009-10-11
Reviewer Rating:
The chapets about making your own template and css are very badly structured and poorly written. If you know the basic this book is waste of money.

A good introductory book with enough detail for the more experienced - 2009-10-09
Reviewer Rating:
I bought this book because I needed something to help me get over the hump on a project. I don't have a lot of free time to spend getting it done (it's volunteer work) so I needed a book that was easy to read but still had enough details to help me understand what was needed for any particular aspect of a typical Joomla site. The book has 3 chapters that each deal with setting up a particular kind of website with Joomla (school, restaurant and another that slips my mind). These helped to show how to apply the more general knowledge presented earlier to a specific type of website. A good book overall and I don't regret buying it.

Absolutely the best Joomla book available - superb job on this - 2009-09-27
Reviewer Rating:
Being somewhat new to Joomla, I've been scouring the 'net for resources to help me communicate intelligently with my programmers, and do custom work for my sites as well as running them. This book is by far the best of the Joomla books available; I've bought quite a few.

What I like best about this one is that it goes beyond the basics (I also highly recommend "Joomla for Dummies", it's a very good book too); this gives a lot of detailed step by step tips in a very readable format. Super job on this book, it'll be a continuing reference for me for years to come; thanks very much Barrie for a super job with this - it's the world's best Joomla book, period.

-Ken

Excellent Guide for Joomla Development! - 2009-09-21
Reviewer Rating:
I am an ASP.NET developer but could not find a working ASP.NET CMS application. My cousin, along with other sites I came across on the net, were doing what I wanted to do using Joomla! I took the plunge and started reading everything I could on Joomla! The online documentation guides only went do far. This book put everything together. I had no problem downloading and installing the templates from the author's web site. I have been taking notes all through the book and it is now an excellent reference material for a step by step guide. I have used it already to develop two web sites.`

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