Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (2nd Edition)
<b>The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!<sup>TM</sup>--The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System</b> <p style="margin: 0px;">If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla. 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 tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">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! 1.5 reference content.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <ul> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Understand content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together</div> </li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Build Joomla! sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs</div> </li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables</div> </li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Create dynamic pages and effective navigation</div> </li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Work with Joomla! modules and components</div> </li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Learn how to optimize your Joomla! sites for search engines</div> </li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Follow three start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, a small business site, and a blog</div> </li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;">Identify the most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: find them and use them</div> </li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0px;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>About the Website</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">The accompanying site, www.joomlabook.com, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla!.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p>