Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by Barrie North, Barrie M. North
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- Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
- Pub. Date: December 2007
- ISBN-13: 9780136135609
- Sales Rank: 94,563
- 480pp
Synopsis
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!
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Biography
Barrie North has over 15 years of experience with the Internet, as a user, designer, and teacher. He has spent over eight years in the education fi eld, becoming steadily more involved in web technology and teaching web design classes to students and
technology integration to teachers. Most recently he worked as an IT consultant for two new schools pioneering in the use of technology. As well as web design, he has provided web marketing/SEO, usability, and standards compliance expertise to his clients.
He is a partner of Joomla!shack.com, providing templates and custom services. He also maintains a blog about all things Joomla! at compassdesigns.net. When not working, he can frequently be found on the Joomla! community boards, and he has written many free tutorials for using Joomla!. His combination of Joomla! expertise, educational skills, and engaging writing has produced a book accessible to everyone.
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Get Joomla! A User's Guide as a Companion to the downloadable Joomla! User Manualby CinenseIT
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November 09, 2008:
To sum it up so I can get back to work, is this is a great no frills user guide to Joomla! As I am new to Joomla!, but not web development, it is a very good book to work from and easy to read. This book also goes good with the Joomla Book website www.joomlabook.com.
The only thing that would be nice is some advance topics like security or backup of data... but what do you expect, this is just a user's guide and it is great as that.
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June 28, 2008: Don't get this book if you are new to joomla. That would be a painful mistake. You will pull all your hair out in frustration. I get no pleasure from writing a poor review, but I wish someone had warned me away from this book. The author seems very knowledgeable and this book contains useful information, but it also has several flaws: Worst flaw is that, frequently, when walking the reader through a series of steps, he will overlook something important - I guess he assumes we already know stuff. This was tremendously frustrating for this beginner. I spent hours trying to figure out missing links through the joomla forum and online tutorials. The organization, descriptions and language are badly flawed. The author tries to use a conversational tone, but it is very annoying and confusing to frequently read useless phrases like 'as you can see' - especially when you can't. About half the narrative is filler like that. I had to re-read many paragraphs 3-4 times to understand them. After five frustrating, headache-filled days 'I kept giving him the benefit of the doubt that it would get better - it never did', I bought 'Beginning Joomla' by Dan Rahmel and had joomla working properly in a few hours. 'First, I cleared my mind and computer of everything I had attempted under this book's guidance.' Let this be your second or third joomla book, but not your first if you're a beginner.
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