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With its pre-coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies.

Learn to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, let your guests sign up for e-mail lists, and much more. Joomla! For Dummies helps you to:

  • Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page
  • See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout
  • Use templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them to
  • Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modules
  • Build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic
  • Explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them
  • Check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do
  • Find modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more

Joomla! lets you concentrate on content instead of struggling with code. So grab Joomla! For Dummies and start creating!

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Build cool Web sites without coding — it's easy with Joomla!

Joomla! makes it easy, and this book makes it easier yet! See how to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, allow your guests to sign up for e-mail lists, and much more, all with portable Joomla! modules. Instead of struggling with code, you can concentrate on content. Here's how!

  • Jump into Joomla! — acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page
  • The meaning of menus — see how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout

  • Taming templates — use these powerful collections of PHP and CSS to make your pages do what you want them to

  • Module madness — create searches, polls, menus, newsflashes, and banners with built-in Joomla! modules

  • Joomla! and SEO — build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic

  • Extend your options — explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them

  • Plug it in — check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do

Open the book and find:

  • Step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing Joomla!
  • Examples of cool Joomla! sites

  • How to remove and rename menus

  • Easy ways to add pages to your site

  • How to make menu options work for you

  • Tips for tracking page hits

  • Modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more

  • The secrets of keywords


Product Details

  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies (January 14, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 047043287X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470432877
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #36,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
    #85 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Software > Introductory Guides
    #11 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Introductory & Beginning > For Dummies - Programming

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very concise and understandable intro to Joomla!, April 1, 2009
This review is from: Joomla! For Dummies (Paperback)
This book is aimed at people who haven't used Joomla before and want to learn all of the fundimentals needed to get started. If you are an experience Joomla programmer looking for an a book on how to manipulate the underlying PHP, CSS, MySQL, and HTML, this ISN'T the book you need.

Personally, I needed a book that would teach me how to use the system. Before I purchased this book, I had never used Joomla in any way before. So, I was very happy to find that it only took several hours for me to read through this book and learn how to get a site up and running.

Unlike many other Joomla books, this one gets you into the program very quickly. The directions for using Joomla are very clear, as are the accompanying illustrations. Each of the chapters in this book are short and sweet.

If you are a newbie, like me, this is a great book to start with!

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best Joomla! book I bought, March 8, 2009
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I was starting with Joomla! and checked some books from Amazon. I bouht one, what I thought, would be a good book as a start with sufficient detail to use it later a reference. But: it was too difficult. Then I got this e-mail notice from Amazon about this new "Dummy" on Joomla!, and I bought it directly. What a succes! This one really helps you to get insight in the software. It helps you understand what it is to work with a content management system and how to cope with "not having pages" but articles and menus. An easy step-by-step guide with sufficient detail to use it for a lengthy period. So: a real representative from the "for dummies" series!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Clear and helpful, May 9, 2009
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For the struggling Joomla novice, this volume contains plenty of precise pictures and clear instructions to save the day. If Joomla is new to you, this is your book.

If you're advanced, this book will seem rudimentary. However if you need to teach Joomla to others, it makes a good and complete classroom manual.
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I had no experience at all with building a Joomla based website and this book made it easy to do. It was easy to understand and I could gt my website up and running within a few... Read more
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I have had good luck with dummies guides in the past, so I bought the Joomla for Dummies book for my wife so she could learn Joomla and how to use it. Read more
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