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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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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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By J. Walker
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After a brief experiment several years ago, I decided to give Joomla another try, this book makes navigating the 'backend' of Joomla much easier and helps you get an understanding of how Joomla sites are put together.
With most other methods of website creation I've found it difficult to add extra features such as forums and ecommerce and keep everything seamless for the website visitor, Joomla has so many free extensions and add-ons that you really can make ANY type of site.
This book has images of the control panel interface which makes it much easier to understand what needs to be done to acheive the desired result, although most, if not all the information in the book could be discovered by searching the net, it's so much quicker and easier to have the book to hand for whenever you get confused!
Within minutes of getting this book I had flipped through it to scan for anything particuarly useful for me and a couple of really useful pieces of information popped out at me, firstly a free 'bridge' that enables a phpbb forum to be easily integrated into a Joomla installation, and secondly, I found links to help me use Dreamweaver to edit Joomla templates.
I still find it hard to believe that Joomla is free! and this book makes the installation, configuration and expansion of a Joomla website really easy.
I highly recommend this book for anyone considering creating a Joomla powered site, it's a small price to pay, especially considering everything else you need to create a powerful attractive website is free, well except maybe the domain and hosting! I just which I'd stuck with Joomla and found this book years ago.
With most other methods of website creation I've found it difficult to add extra features such as forums and ecommerce and keep everything seamless for the website visitor, Joomla has so many free extensions and add-ons that you really can make ANY type of site.
This book has images of the control panel interface which makes it much easier to understand what needs to be done to acheive the desired result, although most, if not all the information in the book could be discovered by searching the net, it's so much quicker and easier to have the book to hand for whenever you get confused!
Within minutes of getting this book I had flipped through it to scan for anything particuarly useful for me and a couple of really useful pieces of information popped out at me, firstly a free 'bridge' that enables a phpbb forum to be easily integrated into a Joomla installation, and secondly, I found links to help me use Dreamweaver to edit Joomla templates.
I still find it hard to believe that Joomla is free! and this book makes the installation, configuration and expansion of a Joomla website really easy.
I highly recommend this book for anyone considering creating a Joomla powered site, it's a small price to pay, especially considering everything else you need to create a powerful attractive website is free, well except maybe the domain and hosting! I just which I'd stuck with Joomla and found this book years ago.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By C. Flanagan
Format:Paperback
This is certainly a well presented book, written in plain English with clear step by step instructions on getting started with Joomla. However, the instructions for installing a local server for Windows are incorrect - the authors state that you MUST enable Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows. This is simply untrue, it's possible to use Apache/MySQL and PHP (through WAMP or XAMPP) instead of IIS but worse, the latest Joomla versions (Feb 2009) actually won't install in IIS! Many wasted hours trying to fix IIS, search forums etc... Shame really because the rest of the book is highly recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By I. West
Format:Paperback
The clue is in the title - it is a Quick Start Guide. I have used these books before and they are aimed at getting you going quickly. This title certainly does that. CMS systems have a lot in common, but it is all their little idiosyncrasies that can lose you. This book quickly shoots you through that and gets you up and running. I was able to use it to get my first Joomla site up... but that was all. I learned a lot through the process and site two is far more successful. There are some items and bits of information that come towards the end of the book that would have been useful much earlier. Each chapter is summarised with a very useful table that you can use as on-going reference.
As a Quick Start this book is great - but now I need a more detailed manual to really get the most out of Joomla.
As a Quick Start this book is great - but now I need a more detailed manual to really get the most out of Joomla.
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I bought this book as I was taking a web design course at the time. This book was useful for web design but did not give me the answers I wanted. Read more
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Glad I bought this book as I was a complete novice where Joomla! was concerned. Easy to read and understand. Both good for novices and the slightly more experienced. Read more
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SHOCKING AND DREADFUL
This book takes you on the usual pedestrian tour of the completely and utterly obvious - several pages on the web is terribly exciting, content management systems are amazing,... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2010 by Matthew Graham
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Use this book with the Joomla for dummies book
I bought this book at the same time as Joomla for dummies, although this is a good book I dont think that I would have been able to build my website as quickly as I did without the... Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2010 by Eve
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Disappointing as a Visual Quickstart Guide
In short this book disappoints - in fact it's simply uninspiring.
It has the great merit of following the standard Visual Quickstart layout that I've found in their... Read more
It has the great merit of following the standard Visual Quickstart layout that I've found in their... Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by Banana Brain
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Newbie Joomla site builder
Its not a bad book, quite an easy read. It only took a few evenings to get through it, but by the time I had finished the book I had covered most of it by experimentation and... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2010 by J. Allen
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Good Solid Introduction To Joomla
After a previous failed attempt at getting to grips with Joomla I bought this and it helped greatly. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2009 by Another Dave
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Got a web site up quickly
This book got a web site working, but I found I needed some further guidance.
The problem is that versions of Software change & there were issues with compatibility. Read more
The problem is that versions of Software change & there were issues with compatibility. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2009 by Powersupply
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Good but inconsistent and missing content...
This book manages to introduce the reader to the working of Joomla1.5 but in a rather clumsy and repetitive fashion. Read more
Published on 3 May 2009 by R. York
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Joomla Simplified
I've been a big fan of 'Visual Quickstart Guides' for years and this book is no exception. I like the way they're laid out, half text and half visual presentations on the same... Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2009 by John O'Hara
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