
Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by Barrie M. North
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR | Number Of Pages: 480 | Publication Date: 2007-12-21 | ISBN-10: 0136135609 | CHM | 48 Mb
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
DOWNLOAD ::LINK
Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla!
Joomla! For Dummies

Joomla! For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies | Date: 2009-01-14 | ISBN: 047043287X | PDF | 9.08MB | 364 pages
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!
DOWNLOAD ::LINK
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
384 pages | Packt Publishing (March 28, 2008) | Lan: English | ISBN: 184719530X | PDF | 15.4 Mb
DOWNLOAD ::LINK