Joomla! 1.6: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (3rd Edition) 


 

416 pages | Prentice Hall (February 21, 2011) | English | ISBN-10: 0132487063 | PDF | 22,7 Mb 
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 1.6 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 grid 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