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Comprehensive guide to creating Web sites with the open-source Joomla!1.5
Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) for Web sites. While it is free and relatively easy to use, there are lots of tricks and functionality that may not be intuitive to new users or those switching from other systems. And the previous version is quite different from the new Joomla 1.5, for which documentation is sparse. Joomla! Bible is the complete, step-by-step guide you need to build and manage Web sites using the very newest version of this powerful and popular CMS.
Walks you through obtaining the Joomla! 1.5 code and how to deploy it to a server, configure the site, create content, and manage content and user hierarchies
Helps you get the most out of core modules that provide advanced functionality, including the Polls Module, the Banner Manager, the Media Manager, Galleries, Weblinks, Content Syndication, and Newsfeed Aggregation
Vaults you into the world of Web 2.0 with extensive coverage of JomSocial, and shows you how to set up for e-commmerce with VirtueMart
Get the most out of Joomla! 1.5 with this complete guide guide.
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Your complete guide to building and managing Web sites with Joomla!
With access to a Web host, a browser, and the Joomla! open source content management system, you can create your own robust Web site for free—complete with e-commerce, social networking, and RSS feeds—without knowing a line of code. But while Joomla! is a powerful tool rich in features and functions, there are lots of tricks and techniques that are not intuitive. Master Joomla! essentials and learn all of its secrets with this detailed, step-by-step guide.
Obtain the code and configure your Joomla! 1.5 installation, with highlights of Joomla! 1.6
Design the content and appearance of your home page
Create menus, structure articles, and manage users
Add forms and RSS news feeds, and run polls and surveys
Master all templates, components, and advanced modules
Move into Web 2.0 with JomSocial social networking
Set up your site for e-commerce with VirtueMart
Keep your site secure and search engine friendly
About the Author
Ric Shreves is a freelance writer and Web applications development consultant. Ric's been building websites professionally since 1999. His company, water&stone (waterandstone.com), specializes in the creation of websites using open source content management systems such as Joomla! In the last year, his company deployed over 120 Web sites based on Joomla! His previous books include works on the Mambo and Drupal CMS and also on the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Ric has also written for numerous tech publications and worked as an open source columnist for ComputerWorld.
Ric Shreves is a partner at water&stone, an interactive agency specializing in open source technologies. He's worked with content management technologies for more than 10 years and previously served as the Chairmen of the non-profit Mambo Foundation. Ric's written several books on technology and worked as a tech journalist and columnist for a number of publications, including ComputerWorld. He lives in Bali, Indonesia.
You can visit his personal site at http://RicShreves.net and his company site at http://www.waterandstone.com
This is far and away the best overview on Joomla, how to deploy a website in Joomla. This is not a book on how to develop in Joomla. The intended audience is someone who will be building Joomla websites, administrating them and doing mild customization in the HTML/CSS arena. Not a book about PHP programming or Joomla's MVC architecture (shame to even use that term, as Joomla MVC is horrific!).
Joomla is a great product for the right audience and this book is perfect for them!
I have already been working with Joomla for a while. This book tends to explain every virtual button on the screen which are pretty intuitive by the name or label given.
I was really looking for some more in depth information about how to get Joomla to perform some functions to solve my needs.
This text does not (nor was it design to) explain the modules & extensions. I am using the Chronoforms, JEvents, PHP & MySQL to make a complete solution. I need something which could tie it all together.
As far as discovering the issues with Joomla, this book does a great job.
Amazon search for 'Joomla API' shows this book first. This is a shame. This 'Bible' does not have a single line of PHP code inside. It is big because it has big illustrations of webpages - impossible to see what on it anyway.
These books go out of date quickly and are best used along with Google searches for current info. Helpful for new users or the Joomla curious but clever Admins can manage without.
Reading this book is a little like trying to learn how to drive by reading the car manual. It describes everything, often in monotonous and unnecessary detail, but never really gives a clear idea of how to actually build a Web site with Joomla! If you are looking for a book that will help you through the concepts of putting a Web site together with Joomla!, giving just enough details to keep you moving forward, followed by chapters with more technical details, this isn't the one. It's not useless and someday after I actually learn how to Joomla! I may refer back to this book - or maybe not.
This book is very good, the only one thing it was missing more info about building template for Joomla! 1.5 ... and maybe some info about changes in Joomla! 1.6. I will recommend this title to my students and other developers. I still waiting for a paper copy to read rest chapters ;).
I enjoyed reading this book immensely !! The book is very thorough. It has an easy rhythm and is very logically organized. You will love Part V,after you are done learning about the core Joomla features, and functionality. It is here that Ric shines - very concise, to-the-point and professional advice on what to do when you are ready for real-world Joomla deployment. Another thing you will appreciate is information about the upcoming version of Joomla - sprinkled through-out the text. I recommend this book without reservation to new and experienced Joomla fans.
Joomla! is a free, open source, content management system (CMS). It is a fully-featured system that allows for dynamic website creation without having to worry about coding, learning HTML or database functions. This book does an excellent job of explaining the basics so anyone can understand them, and then goes into more advanced features that experienced users may want to tackle. If you are going to buy only one Joomla! book, this is probably the best available.
