Joomla! 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs [Paperback]

Daniel Chapman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 24, 2009

Filled with plenty of examples and careful explanations, this step-by-step guide teaches you to build a subscription-based business site with Joomla!. This site will evolve chapter by chapter as you apply the techniques and theory that you are learning to it. You will start by looking at the environment in which you develop, setting yourself up with the right tools to develop a professional site as effectively and efficiently as possible. Then you will move on to setting the purpose of our site, and why it is important to have a clear purpose and goals for your site before you ever even install Joomla!. You will begin to look through choosing, installing and customizing extensions, and proceed to work on your sample subscription site as a practical example of the information covered in each chapter. Finally you will look at how to market and monetize your site to ensure the maximum success for your site. This book is written for people with basic knowledge of Joomla! who want to expand their skills and move from simply assembling extensions and installing a template to truly customizing their own site. Readers are expected to have functional knowledge of Joomla! and a very basic understanding of terms such as FTP, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, even if they have no real knowledge of the workings behind these terms. This book does not cover topics such as installing Joomla! and extensions, or creating content. The ideal reader is one who wishes to build a successful business web site using Joomla! and is interested in making as well as saving money by applying professional tools and techniques to the development, monetization, and marketing of their site. Non-business focussed site owners can still benefit greatly from the book, however, if they wish to add a level of professionalism to their work.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Daniel Chapman

Daniel Chapman has been working in IT since 1995, firstly as an Oracle Database consultant and trainer, then in freelance web development, and now as a Joomla extension developer. He is the founder and CEO of Ninja Forge, a leading Joomla! extension club. Currently based in Japan, he is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in designing and customizing sites, as well as in building successful web-based businesses, having worked on the design and development of several.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847195164
• ISBN-13: 978-1847195166
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,037,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)