Joomla! is one of the fastest growing Open Source Content Management Systems on the market today and has won multiple awards since it's release in 2005. Currently, Joomla! has the largest 3rd party developer and designer community, with over 160,000 current registered users, over 2,000 templates, and 3,000 extensions. This task-based guide to creating, customizing, and maintaining a dynamic Joomla! 1.5 web site starts with the fundamental concepts and advantages of a Content Management System and then walks the user through setting up a server environment, downloading and installing Joomla!, adding and structuring content, using components, modules, and plugins, and administrating from both the back and front-ends. The book finishes with more advanced topics, including CSS, search engine optimization (SEO), and customizing templates and the Joomla! framework itself. It's the perfect guide to getting started with Joomla or for those users that want to expand their skills.
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Marni Derr is a writer, developer, designer, trainer, and consultant helping people build successful Joomla websites over the past 4 years. A technical writer for over 16 years, Marni currently writes and blogs about Joomla daily. An active member in the Joomla community, she continues to write for a variety of Joomla developers and template designers. You can find her portfolio at www.marniderr.com or her web site on all things Joomla at www.webcafestore.com. You can follow Marni on twitter @webcafestore.
Tanya Symes is an award-winning technical writer and a Joomla web developer. She has 18 years of experience in technical writing, web development, business analysis, and project management. She maintains a Joomla web site for dog lovers at www.theimperfectdog. You can find her portfolio at www.reflectivecommunications.com.
Both authors maintain the supporting web site for Joomla!: Visual Quick Start Guide at www.writingyourdreams.com.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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The book will help you get a rough site developed by covering the basics as well as the other books (none are great) but there are essential things missing that are essential to making a site acceptable and avoiding pitfalls that will make life miserable for beginners. For example, once you have prepared the content using the default template how do you get it onto one of the many available Joomla templates on the market. Instead they take a whole chapter to tell you how to convert a template in CSS or HTML to Joomla and that is beyond most beginners. Also, how to remove the Joomla logo from the template. Not a word and yet everyone has to do it. Moreover it is a pain to do so as all the discussion on the Joomla forum would substantiate. Like all the other books it also tells you to develop the site on a localhost and then transfer to the remote server. Many people including me tried that and ran into insurmountable problems transferring. A better approach is to do it directly on the server, which is easy. This book and North's book jump from the basics to the expert items and gloss over or do not even mention items in the middle. Telling beginners to change code is useless unless an explanation of the steps to do so is included. These are better than nothing until someone writes a good tutorial book, but if you are new to Joomla you will have to get more sources of information than either of these books.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Finally, every feature covered, this is an excellent book on Joomla!
I started using Joomla a few months ago. After struggling a bit I decided to purchase a few books. After struggling some more, a friend told me she had seen a Visual Quick Start Joomla book in the bookstore. I thought, one more book couldn't hurt and I like the visual quick start series, so I ordered it. I don't normally do reviews, but this book was just the answer I needed.
This book walks you step by step through each and every feature of Joomla, from installation, organization, content, menus, modules, extensions, etc. If it is part of Joomla it's in there. In only a week with the book, I finally understood how to create and use each piece of the Joomla puzzle. This book not only tells you how to use Joomla, but what each piece does, examples on how it will look, what it will do, and even covers all the parameter settings in easy to read detail. Packed with the standard Visual Quick Start images I never lost my way.
Not only is this a great book for creating an entire Joomla web site, but also an excellent resource I know I can use over and over again when I have forgotten something.
The author's also have a companion web site dedicated to the book with downloadable files, articles, and a forum to ask questions. If you want to not only learn Joomla, but know exactly how to use it, buy this book.
I started using Joomla a few months ago. After struggling a bit I decided to purchase a few books. After struggling some more, a friend told me she had seen a Visual Quick Start Joomla book in the bookstore. I thought, one more book couldn't hurt and I like the visual quick start series, so I ordered it. I don't normally do reviews, but this book was just the answer I needed.
This book walks you step by step through each and every feature of Joomla, from installation, organization, content, menus, modules, extensions, etc. If it is part of Joomla it's in there. In only a week with the book, I finally understood how to create and use each piece of the Joomla puzzle. This book not only tells you how to use Joomla, but what each piece does, examples on how it will look, what it will do, and even covers all the parameter settings in easy to read detail. Packed with the standard Visual Quick Start images I never lost my way.
Not only is this a great book for creating an entire Joomla web site, but also an excellent resource I know I can use over and over again when I have forgotten something.
The author's also have a companion web site dedicated to the book with downloadable files, articles, and a forum to ask questions. If you want to not only learn Joomla, but know exactly how to use it, buy this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book based on my good experience with another Quick Start book but this one wasn't quite as well written. It seems to be a rush job with not much proofreading for clarity. The book does explore just about every Joomla function but it does it in an A-Z, across the toolbar in order, method. It doesn't begin with an overview explanation of how Joomla works. If it had, it might have cut my learning time in half. After working my way through half the book and using Joomla's on-line tutorials to answer the questions that the book didn't, I finally grasped the structure and use of Joomla. Like other reviewers, I did all my learning on an on-line installation while the book described a local (on your computer) configuration which wasn't helpful. For the price, this book is adequate.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Why Bother?
Like too much tech writing, this book wastes most of its pages replicating the better-integrated (and free, and unlikely to become outdated) help already built into the program it... Read more
Published 3 months ago by R. Bryan Harrison
Disappointing at least
Basicly the book walks the menu entries and tells what you see and can do. We don't need a book for that. Read more
Published 17 months ago by dikkie
VERY basic
Pretty basic, and not too clear on the details. If you need to be able to customize your site (and we all do), then try another book. Read more
Published 19 months ago by aileronguy
A handy guide that could benefit from a few improvements
Joomla!
Visual Quickstart Guide
written by Marni Derr and Tanya Symes
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Visual Quickstart Guide
written by Marni Derr and Tanya Symes
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Published on January 12, 2010 by Ariane Colenbrander
Great Instruction - clear and concise.
I needed this book! I was struggling with Joomla! for a couple of months before I decided to get an instructional book. Joomla! Read more
Published on July 4, 2009 by Anthony J. Shaw
Lacks a "big picture" explanation
This book is poorly organized in that it doesn't really address the "big picture." The book is good for looking up individual tasks and getting some explanation of how to make... Read more
Published on June 4, 2009 by Diane Castle
The worst
Nothing more than a page-by-page screen shot of every possible Joomla configuration. Just download and install Joomla for free and you can get as much. Read more
Published on May 5, 2009 by KH
Clear, well written, though by no means comprehensive
This book is the one that finally got me "over the hump" with the Joomla learning curve. I don't know if it's because it was the third or fourth I've read or if it is the best of... Read more
Published on April 24, 2009 by P. Kelley
Lacking in explanations
Unfortunately this book follows the same route as most other technical books. You get a lot of sentences like "Here's how to create an author details menu", without any conceptual... Read more
Published on March 24, 2009 by Callum D
Gotta have!
After paying a bunch of web yah yahs a bunch of money to do absolutely nothing for me I decided to do it on my own. Read more
Published on December 4, 2008 by N. Peppin
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menu manager, new module, user menu, plugin manager, archived content, section blog layout, external link, menu trash, select author, reunion location, global configuration page, title linkable, php endif, banner module, menu module, administrative back end, article parameters, menu item page, banner component, read more link, menu item details, banner client, global configuration settings, menu item type, article layout Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Click Save, Module Manager, Choose Extensions, Global Configuration, Choose Content, Choose Site, Making Your Site Dynamic, Main Menu, Article Manager, Choose Menus, Recipes Menu, Category Manager, Today's Recipe, Section Manager, Front Page, Extending Your Site, Modifying Global Settings, Menu Item, Creating Joomla Templates, Media Manager, Article Editor, Main Dishes, News Feeds, Use Global, Community Builder Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
menu manager, new module, user menu, plugin manager, archived content, section blog layout, external link, menu trash, select author, reunion location, global configuration page, title linkable, php endif, banner module, menu module, administrative back end, article parameters, menu item page, banner component, read more link, menu item details, banner client, global configuration settings, menu item type, article layout Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Click Save, Module Manager, Choose Extensions, Global Configuration, Choose Content, Choose Site, Making Your Site Dynamic, Main Menu, Article Manager, Choose Menus, Recipes Menu, Category Manager, Today's Recipe, Section Manager, Front Page, Extending Your Site, Modifying Global Settings, Menu Item, Creating Joomla Templates, Media Manager, Article Editor, Main Dishes, News Feeds, Use Global, Community Builder Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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