Joomla! Explained: Your StepbyStep Guide (Joomla! Press) - Softcover

Burge, Stephen

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9780321703781: Joomla! Explained: Your StepbyStep Guide (Joomla! Press)

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ISBN 10: 0321703782 ISBN 13: 9780321703781

Publisher: AddisonWesley Professional, 2011

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The book will show people that they can build and manage a Joomla! 2.5 website without a technical background. Starting with an introduction to Joomla and how to install it, the book will detail how to add content, control users, make links and then add extra features to a Joomla! site. The book simplifies things to avoid difficult tasks that are unnecessary for beginners to understand. Written in plain English, the tutorial offers clear instructions, simple explanations, real-life examples, plenty of screenshots and humor. The book is aimed at busy people who want to understand Joomla in a fun, readable and straightforward way.

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From the Back Cover:

Master Joomla! hands-on, step-by-step, through easy, practical examples!
Joomla! now powers tens of millions of websites of every size and type. But many beginners find it confusing, and most Joomla! books are too complex to help. Joomla! Explained is the solution. Top Joomla! trainer Stephen Burge teaches everything beginners need to know--and nothing they don't need to know!

Joomla! Explained requires absolutely no experience with Joomla! content management, website construction, programming, scripting, or even HTML. Stephen Burge has taught thousands of beginners--and thousands more who've experimented with Joomla! but haven't mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding Joomla! users up the learning curve--from confusion to results!

You'll master Joomla! one easy step at a time, through a complete hands-on case study. Burge presents crystal-clear visuals, explanations, and analogies--all extensively tested with real Joomla! beginners.

The book's quick, easy coverage includes:

Understanding what Joomla! does and how it works
Installing the latest version of Joomla
Navigating your site's visitor and administrator areas
Mastering workflows that make site creation easy
Adding text, images, links, and formatting
Creating efficient, usable navigation
Providing contact forms, ad banners, and link directories
Using modules to enable site registration and search
Adding voting and other smaller "plug-in" features
Quickly changing site designs with Joomla! templates
Finding, choosing, installing, and using extensions
Building both business and personal sites, step by step
Giving customized access to different types of users
Managing site versions in multiple languages
Efficiently administering, backing up, and updating sites

Note 1: This book was written using Joomla 1.6 but fully covers Joomla 2.5.
Note 2: This book does not cover coding your own templates or extensions. This book aims to teach you how to use Joomla even if you don't have a technical background.

About the Author:

Stephen Burge has split his career equally between teaching and web development. In 2007 he merged the two by teaching web development with Joomla!. His company Open Source Training teaches Joomla! classes around the world and online. Stephen travels widely, helping people learn and thrive with Joomla!. He has been involved with many aspects of the Joomla! community, most recently as board member of Open Source Matters, which provides Joomla! with financial and legal support.

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