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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 (Paperback)

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited (28 Mar 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 184719530X
ISBN-13: 978-1847195302
Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.6 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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This book takes a practical step-by-step approach of teaching the installation and configuration of Joomla! 1.5, customizing it, creating your templates and extensions, and finally, building your own website. This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors, and marketing professionals who want to develop a website in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive website.

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Hagen Graf was born in July 1964. Born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany, his first contact with a computer was in the late seventies with a Radioshack TRS 80. As a salesperson, he organized his customers' data by programming suitable applications. This gave him a big advantage over other salesmen. With the intention of honing his skills, he joined evening courses in programming and became a programmer. Nowadays he works in his wife's consulting company as a trainer, consultant, and programmer (http://www.cocoate.com). Hagen Graf has published other books in German, about the Apache web server, about security problems in Windows XP, about Mambo, and about Drupal. Since 2001, he has been engaged in a nonprofit e-learning community called "machm-it.org e.V.", as well as in several national and international projects. All the projects are related to content management, community building, and harnessing the power of social software like wikis and weblogs. He chose Joomla! CMS because of its simplicity and easy-to-use administration. You can access and comment on his blog (http://www.bloghouse.org/en/hagen).

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1.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars ?, I think not, 18 Jul 2008

By	Mr. Keith Sterling "keiff" (London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Not entirely sure how the previous reviewer could give this a 5 star rating, this book is not very good.

I bought on the basis of the review thinking it will give me a tutorial and examples based development.

In fact all it is is a glorified user manual that explains what each page in the admin section does, and not that well in most cases

Don't buy this book if you want an decent introduction to Joomla or an example driven explanation of how to actually build a website. If you do, you'll might as well skip to the last chapter and even then its just about good enough to explain some of the basics

Total waste of money in my opinion, you are better of with Barrie M. North book than this thing

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1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of money (apart from the donation to Joomla), 23 Jul 2008

By	UK Bookworm "UK Bookworm" (UK) - See all my reviews

I was misled into buying this book by the first reviewer. I found the book incredibly superficial, badly written and badly edited. I was not expecting to get all that much from the first chapters as I have been using Joomla for several years, but if you're new to Joomla you'd be far better off reading some of the online tutorials than this book. The later chapters which I bought the book for (for example on creating templates) are so superficial and random as to be completely unusable.

That this books is so poor is a real shame as Joomla is a truly amazing content management system and deserves a far better book than this.

I don't know how Packt go about choosing their authors and quality control, but if I were them I'd have another think.

The only positive out of this is that some of the purchase price goes to Joomla as a donation, but frankly you'd be better off donating to Joomla directly.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Do not waste your money on this poor book, 29 Jul 2008

By	Peter Button "Sales Team Coach" (Banbury, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The negative comments by other reviewers are spot on.

I would only add that this is a badly structured and poorly written book that has been translated badly from the original German.

I returned my copy to Amazon immediately.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Clear; uncomplicated useful and quick
I wanted to get a Joomla site up and out quickly - no mucking about - no searching for hours over websites and printing out endless pages from help manuals. Read more

Published 6 months ago by JFP

1.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't agree more - what a waste!
Strange how the guy who rated it 5 star has only ever reviewed 2 items - both Joomla! books and both by the same publisher. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Mr. L. D. T. Sheppard

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginners
Unfortunately I was not one, this book is ideal if you are a complete novice, but if you have had any experience with Joomla! Read more

Published 9 months ago by Mr. Darren J. Whittington

1.0 out of 5 stars Truly useless
One can only question the motives of someone who gives this book a 5 star review. The explanations in this book are absurdly superficial. Please don't waste your money.

Published 13 months ago by Mr. R. Linnington

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The book is a tutorial guide to Joomla! 1.5 and was already written and published during the development of Joomla! 1.5. Read more

Published 18 months ago by Nyarnon

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