Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website | 
 enlarge | Author: Barrie M. North
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
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Pages: 480
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ISBN: 0136135609
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
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Publication Date: December 21, 2007
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The First Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!-The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla!-the world’s #1 open source content management system. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find never-before-published tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies. New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts, and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla!’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla!? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5 reference content. Understanding content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together Building Joomla! sites from scratch, and systematically customizing them to your needs Organizing content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables Creating dynamic pages and effective navigation Working with Joomla! modules and components Search engine optimization for Joomla! sites Start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, an e-commerce site, and a blog The most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: finding them, and using them Key differences between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5, and what they mean to you
About the Website The accompanying site for the Joomla 1.5 book, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla! The site also includes
- An active forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book from a Joomla expert
- 5 fully functional Joomla 1.5 live follow-along examples from the book. You can browse the sites and their backends live online.
- Downloads of 5 free websites for Joomla 1.5 based on various chapter of the book. These are SQL dumps you can import to instantly give you a completed Joomla site.
- 4 free tutorial templates and 3 free templates from joomlashack.com including the popular commercial template - JS Aqualine!
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Good for non-techies, average for developers, great website support October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very good for getting up and running with Joomla, covers all the basics of configuration and utilization of the standard parts. Goes into some of the template customization, but doesn't explain in detail the PHP functions (you would have to know PHP to do anything more than follow the basic directions).
The companion website (JoomlaShack) is EXCELLENT.
 Keep getting "stuck" September 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have found no way for the person with no Joomla experience to go through this book without getting "stuck". You know, when the results don't match the instructions? This happens when, in Chapter 4, the user must download and install the sample files in SQL form. There is a website that has the download files, but the passwords don't match what you put in when installing Joomla, thus, you have to go wandering around the site to find said login information.
When posting a question on the website forum, it takes days (if ever) to get a reply. Not very helpful when you're in the middle of a problem. What you DO find all over the forum is an advertisement touting the author's service to build and host a Joomla website for you! If I wanted that, I wouldn't have invested in the book to begin with.
This is my first ever review of a book at Amazon, and I have ordered and read many instructional web tutorial books which have all fulfilled their promises. This one disappoints, especially in the "support forum" department.
Do you like puzzles? September 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Being new to Joomla, but not web design and development, the book had me engaged up to the chapter on Search Engine Marketing. This topic alone seems to be the author's real interest and for this he does have some good insights. But my enthusiasm ends here.
Mastering CSS is crucial to having control over the look of your site. At best CSS is a complex subject and I promise that unless you have extraordinary mind-bending abilities at reading between the lines, you will not penetrate this mish-mash explanation of how to put together, or edit, a pure CSS Joomla template as attempted in chapter 9. I would rather wrestle a wild boar, or crack ciphers from the Wehrmacht Enigma machine than waste any more time attempting to untangle such poorly thought out material.
This book needs a major and careful rewrite. And I do mean major. If you have any experience with clearly written, precisely crafted, well edited technical books --as in anything written by David Powers, you will quickly realize that this 'guide' leads nowhere.
hardly deserves one star September 15, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a web designer and programmer who bought this book in the hope that it'd reduce my time spent on forums and disorganized blog posts trying to hunt chunks of useful information on Joomla! , yet the book was far from fulfilling my expectations.
The book doesn't provide clear definitions , doesn't cover the necessary subjects thoroughly....makes a lot of assumptions and fails to communicate the structure of joomla clearly . Especially the last three chapters are a grandeur failure ( SEO+template making being the most important chapters if you really want to learn how to have some control over joomla and how to make your site efficient and accessible)
If you're really curious about the book, download the pdf version.
I highly recommend saving your money for smthing more useful and meaningful than this book.
 A holistic approach August 12, 2008
The focus of this book is on creating a successful website using Joomla, rather than explaining every setting and feature of Joomla itself. Whilst it does comprehensively cover many of Joomla's useful features, leading the novice confidently from basic principles to more advanced concepts, it goes beyond this and gives excellent advice on how to build various types of website (blogs, schools, restaurants) as well as organizing content, using stock images, creating custom template designs, search engine optimisation, pay-per-click advertising, and more. Novices and more advanced users alike will benefit from the wealth of experience the author brings to this guide.
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