Joomla! Cash: Money-making weapons for your Joomla! website (Paperback)

by Brandon Dawson (Author)

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Product Description

Money-making weapons for your Joomla! website

• Learn to set up a cash-generating Joomla! website
• Learn to implement a shopping cart on Joomla!
• How to run an affiliate program from your site
• Set up streams of income using Joomla!
• Gain valuable search-engine ranking knowledge

In Detail

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. It is an open-source solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing.

The emphasis of this book is towards business and online e-commerce; it will give you a valuable knowledge base on search engines, layout and design, implementing a shopping cart, marketing your website, affiliate marketing and more. You will appreciate the concise and straightforward method to set up a cash-generating website.

What you will learn from this book?

• Tips for generating revenues for your site
• Setup of your shopping cart
• Good layout and design for your site
• VirtueMart shopping cart setup
• Details of the iDevAffiliate affiliate system
• Marketing your website

Approach

This book is a fast and easy read, taking the reader from the inception of an idea, to a fully working cash-generating website built on Joomla!

Who this book is written for?

This book is suitable for business people with a medium level of technical skill who need a good primer on how to implement a cash-generating website. Those unfamiliar with Joomla! Would benefit from reading Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1.

About the Author

Brandon Dawson

Brandon Dawson is a 29 year-old website developer from Lancaster, Ohio in the United States. He has completed Joomla! projects for clients ranging from major corporate clients, such as Apple Incorporated, to small local businesses. He maintains a business website at athenainternet.com.

He enjoys building websites, hiking, cycling, and spending time with his fiancée and their son. He is also a huge movie buff from having spent his college years operating a small local movie theatre.

He frequents the Joomla! support forums, and maintains personal websites at joomlawarrior.com and brandondawson.org.

Tom Canavan

A twenty-three year veteran of the Computer Business, and a CIO at a thriving dot-com, Tom Canavan has a degree in Robotics and Numerical Control. He is author of the book Dodging the Bullets - A Disaster Preparation Guide for Joomla! Based Websites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847191401
• ISBN-13: 978-1847191403
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #955,294 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Long on Promise...Short on Delivery, February 5, 2008

By	T. Walker "Joomla Newbie" (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When I saw this book offered I thought finally someone had put it all together. While it offers some new ideas it was in general a disappointment.

The sections on Virtuemart and IDevAffiliate were not in depth enough to be usable for someone without experience in using the programs. They use the old "beyond the scope of this book" excuse. It is very light in the integration of the programs with Joomla.

The cover says the book is "suitable for people with a medium level of technical skill". If this is the case you will not need this book. All in all the book should have spent more pages on the actual integration of the programs and less on needless fluff material.