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The best-selling Joomla! tutorial guide updated for the latest 1.5 release


* Learn Joomla! 1.5 features
* Install and customize Joomla! 1.5
* Configure Joomla! administration
* Create your own Joomla! templates
* Extend Joomla! with new components, modules, and plug-ins
Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."

While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.

Approach

This book takes the reader through the tasks essential to create a Joomla! website as rapidly as possible. The necessary tasks are explained with clear step-by-step instructions. The author’s chatty and engaging style makes this book very readable.

Who this book is written for

This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors, and marketing professionals who want to develop a website in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive website.

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Terms, Concepts, and Deliberations
Chapter 2: Installation
Chapter 3: A Tour of Your New Website
Chapter 4: Customizing Joomla!—Language and Templates
Chapter 5: Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Chapter 6: Site Menu
Chapter 7: The Menus Menu
Chapter 8: Content Menu
Chapter 9: Components Menu
Chapter 10: Extensions Menu
Chapter 11: Tools
Chapter 12: More on Extensions
Chapter 13: Writing Your Own Joomla! Templates
Chapter 14: Barrier Freedom and Joomla!
Chapter 15: Your Own Components, Modules, and Plug-ins
Chapter 16: A Website with Joomla!
Chapter 17: Bonus Templates
Appendix A: Online Resources
Appendix B: Template Modules
Appendix C: How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Appendix D: Joomla! API
Appendix E: Forgot the Admin Password
Appendix F: Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x to Joomla! 1.5
Appendix G: Security Without Global Variables
Index


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