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The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!TM--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. 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.
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.
- Understand content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together
- Build Joomla! sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
- Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables
- Create dynamic pages and effective navigation
- Work with Joomla! modules and components
- Learn how to optimize your Joomla! sites for search engines
- Follow three start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, a small business site, and a blog
- Identify the most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: find them and use them
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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!.
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By D. Larson (santa fe, nm usa)
This book is an good introduction to the Joomla! content management system. It's well written and clear, a good starting point for beginners. I found the book readable, jargon-free, and informative. I am a web designer, so I already had a solid foundation to start from. I think that beginners might benefit from more discussion about servers, since the Joomla! package requires a MYSQL server to be installed. However, the author covers the basics of Joomla!/servers adequately. All in all, it was a good purchase.
By jaybodeen
Getting through this book and its exercises is painfully slow. The author seems more intent on plugging his website and his affiliates than he is with conveying the content of his book in a practical and seamless manner. In the first chapter he simply blows off Mac users with little to no explanation. So I had to figure out the installation process by scanning through the Joomla forums.
The first 5 or 6 chapters are filled with redundant information that merely skims through some of the aspects of Joomla. I actually closed the book and used the "help" button that is accessible with every Joomla panel. This Joomla feature provided a line by line detail in simple and comprehensive explanations that the book did not.
The author devoted two chapters explaining the hierarchy of CMS and ran through a simple set up of sections, categories, and articles without really touching on any of the parameters. I understand that the parameters in Joomla are extensive but one would think a book that calls itself a "User's Guide" would at least attempt to explain some of the fundamentals.
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect is that the book is riddled with errors and I searched the author's shamelessly plugged website for an errata and found nothing. For example- the author makes a special note in part 1 of the tutorial to explain that module styles cannot be attached to components. Yet my navigation would not work until I disregarded the author's note and attached a "XHTML style" to my component. This may not seem like a big deal but I wasted a couple hours running line by line through code and troubleshooting until I figured out the mistake. This seemed to be the case over and over.
If you want to learn how to build sites with Joomla-save your money. There are plenty of free resources online that go into far more detail and are much easier to follow than this book. If you want to learn how to design custom Joomla templates save your hair and find a book that has an errata.
By Josh S. Orlean (Huntington, NY USA)
The thickness of the book combined with the recommendation from a Joomla User Group member got me excited about the value I would get from working through this book. I am a graphic designer. I'm brand new to Joomla. I built static websites using Dreamweaver 7 years ago.
I figured I would start at the beginning of the book and work my way to the back. I started following step-by-step directions on my computer to build a fictitious site. I discovered that the directions are not complete and I have to struggle to figure out what I am missing. This happened too many times. The author also assigns names to sections, categories and articles and then shows these same elements in a screen capture or in a list and they have a different name. The result was that it added unwelcome stress to a challenging process.
Amusingly, he quotes author Steve Krug from his book, "Don't Make Me Think": "If there's a major discrepancy between the link name and the page name, my trust in the site will diminish". My trust in this book and author are gone. I have moved on to another book.
By Karmic Visions (Albuquerque, NM)
I've tried a lot of different Joomla books but this is my favorite, I even recommend it to my clients on my website. I like the way the information was presented, not like a programmer but as a designer. This means I know that a lot of the people I deal with could get their head around it. I'm ready for the next one (and Joomla 1.6)!!
By S. Thompson (Atlanta, GA)
While the book was a somewhat decent intro to Joomla, with relevant walk-throughs, the author at times tends to skip steps and does not provide answers for common mistakes that a beginner might make. For example, in one case, he is describing how to make a menu but leaves out a key detail of making "Show Title" a "no" variable, causing the reader to try to find out why his/her example looks differently from the book (it can become a nightmare trying to figure things out). Also, the index is woefully lacking -- trying to find out what the "order" column does involves searching through the book, rather than going to a page that should be listed in the index. Additionally, one of the templates the author recommends and can be downloaded on his own site after he requires you to submit your email address - the restaurant template - I found to be "unwritable", meaning it is limited in its ability to be customized. Even more, I found some of the images to be out of line with the text that referred to them. I bought this book because it was the later version of a friend's book, but much of this information I have found quite easily for free with google searches, after having to search so much to cover all the missing steps in the book. If you are serious about learning joomla, but are a beginner, simply google the large number of forums on the web, and you will get all the answers you are looking for. As for this book, it goes in the "ebay" pile. Will probably avoid Mr. North's writings in the future.
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