| This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Joomla! If you've never used Joomla!, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Joomla! based web site fast. You don't have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions using this book and Joomla! This book will guide through every step.
The book begins by introducing Joomla! and concepts behind content management. Then the installation of Joomla!, and its supporting software [Apache/MySQL/PHP] is covered. Once you have the installation up and running, you take a tour of Joomla! as it appears out of the box, to familiarize yourself with how it works and what is what. As you take the tour, your own ideas for what you need in your new website begin to crystallize around what you can see Joomla! is capable of. You then build your web application, using only the features of Joomla! you really need. Once you have a base version of your site up, you then learn how to change its appearance and feature set to suit your particular requirements, including bringing it into line with an established corporate identity. At the end of the book you learn how you can add your own extensions to Joomla!.
The book focuses on taking you through the essential tasks to create a Joomla! site as fast as possible. These essential tasks are explained clearly, with well structured step-by-step instructions. The book does not aim to cover every feature of Joomla! nor is it a comprehensive guide to extending Joomla!. Almost everything in the book is accomplished without recourse to the underlying PHP code in which Joomla! is written. This book is suitable for web developers designers, webmasters, content editors and marketing professionals. | |
