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Joomla!™ 1.6: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, Third Edition
By: Barrie M. North
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: February 11, 2011
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-248706-3
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-248706-1
Web ISBN-10: 0-13-248801-9
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-13-248801-3
Pages in Print Edition: 416
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Overview
The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!TM--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 1.6 reference content.
* Understand content management, what Joomla does, and how its components fit together
* Build Joomla sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
* Create modern pure css Joomla 1.6 templates using popular gird frameworks
* Use Joomla 1.6's nested categories to organize content and articles
* Create dynamic pages and effective navigation
* Work with Joomla modules and components
* Learn how to optimize your Joomla sites for search engines
* Follow three start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, a small business site, and a blog
* Identify the most valuable Joomla extensions and add-ons: find them and use them
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"Great intro to Joomla 1.6!" - by Fractured1 on 29-APR-2011
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Just starting out with Joomla 1.6? This is a great book to have at your side. It starts with the typical intro to Joomla, download and installation walkthrough, and administration.
But where this book shines is from Chapter 4 on. I spent the bulk of my time in Chapters 4 (Content is King) and 5 (Creating Menus and Navigation)--especially when working through Chapter 10 (Creating a School Site with Joomla!).
This book takes you through extensions, creating a simple CSS template, some basic SEO concepts, and walkthroughs to create three different websites.
Btw, I don't have access to videos in Safari, but the complete CSS template chapter (Chapter 9) is available as part of the preview. You can check it out here:
http://search.safaribooksonline.com/video/web-development/joomla/97801-
37031979
It's worth a look.
My only complaint is Barrie's failure to include Appendix B (Joomla! Case Studies) from the previous edition.
This is a book well worth reading.
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"Very useful Joomla book" - by Shak on 09-FEB-2011
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This book is very useful and touches all aspects of Joomla including SEO.
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