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WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK?  Individuals wanting to learn Joomla! best practices.  Individuals wanting to learn Joomla! to Develop their websites.  Business owners or employees responsible for their company's website.  Web designers looking to expand their service offerings by providing Joomla! sites for clients.  Individuals considering Joomla! for their next project.  Web Professionals looking to save time by learning from Joomla! It is impossible to say exactly how many websites run Joomla! But over 25 Million copies of Joomla! software has been downloaded since March 2007. There are 500,000 Joomla! Forum members and over 8,000 Extensions listed in the Joomla! Extension Directory. Joomla! is now the new wave of Technology, Better, Faster, More Efficient and best of all FREE. This book brings you an easy Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Joomla! in record time. With this book, it doesn't matter if you are a non- technical person simply looking for a way to create a fast and quality website. Joomla! is the option. The Open source is growing fast and Joomla! leads the charge. With access to a Webhost/server, a browser and the Joomla! software, you can create your own great website for FREE. Some more great and creative things you can do with Joomla!: - Corporate Websites or portals - Online magazines, newspapers, and publications - E-commerce and online reservations - Government applications - Small business Websites - Non-profit and Organizational Websites - Community-based portals - chool Websites - Personal or family homepages and many more.... Without knowing a line of Code, and one of the most interesting things about Joomla! is that you do not need to be a programmer to build a Joomla! website. Read through the entire book and master how to build a Joomla! website in 60 minutes or less.

Annotation Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs. This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site. The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do_it's about what you can do using Joomla!

Who should read this book? Students and young entrepreneurs Individuals wanting to learn Joomla! to develop their websites Business owners or employees responsible for their companys website Web designers looking to expand their service offerings by providing Joomla! sites Web professionals looking to save time by learning from Joomla! This book is aimed at anyone who wants to build and maintain an impressive website. For those who are familiar with Joomla!, this book will help you improve the skills and knowledge you may already have of creating Joomla! websites. Even if you are a beginner at Joomla!, just follow instructions as described in the book, and trust me, you wont have any difficulty understanding the concept of building impressive and high-quality websites with Joomla!. Why choose Joomla! website development? Because you do not need to have any technical knowledge or experience in website design to create Joomla! websites. The learning curve is minimal once you master some basic skills. Building and maintaining impressive and high-quality websites are easy with Joomla! Joomla! makes it easy to manage and update content. Once a Joomla! website is set up, it is easy to add new web pages, edit old web pages, link new web pages to menus, and upload pictures and videos. With this book, it doesnt matter if you are a nontechnical person simply looking for a way to create a fast and quality website. Joomla! is the option. There are more than 626,007 Joomla! forum members and over 7,500 extensions listed in the Joomla! Extension Directory available for you to extend the functionality of your website. Here are some of the great things you can do with Joomla!: Small business websites School websites and online quiz systems Community-based portals E-commerce and online reservations Corporate websites or portals Hospital management system Shipment tracking system Online magazines, newspapers, and publications Government applications and many more Freedom is what you get when you learn Joomla! because it empowers you with the necessary website development skills to be self-employed.

Each chapter is dedicated to a hands-on example project, which are based on fictitious web site development briefs that illustrate practical ways of applying Joomla!. Each chapter contains step-by-step instructions for building the web project, aided by the extensive use of screenshots. When you have completed each project, you will have the knowledge and confidence to apply the techniques you have learned to create your own custom web application. This book is for anybody who wants to build Joomla! sites, and see how to apply the many available Joomla! plugins and features in different scenarios. If you develop Joomla! sites professionally, or would like to try building web sites as a freelancer, this is a great book to help you get started.

If you are new to web content management systems, or even new to building websites, this book will help you create powerful web applications and high-quality websites with Joomla.

The First E asy-to-Use Guide to Joomla! -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!-the world's #1 open source content management system. 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 never-before-published 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! 1.0 and 1.5 reference content. · Understanding content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together · Building Joomla! sites from scratch, and systematically customizing them to your needs · Organizing content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables · Creating dynamic pages and effective navigation · Working with Joomla! modules and components · Search engine optimization for Joomla! sites · Start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, an e-commerce site, and a blog · The most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: finding them, and using them · Key differences between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5, and what they mean to you About the Website The accompanying site for the Joomla 1.5 book, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla! The site also includes An active forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book from a Joomla expert 5 fully functional Joomla 1.5 live follow-along examples from the book. You can browse the sites and their backends live online. Downloads of 5 free websites for Joomla 1.5 based on various chapter of the book. These are SQL dumps you can import to instantly give you a completed Joomla site. 4 free tutorial templates and 3 free templates from joomlashack.com including the popular commercial template - JS Aqualine!

This is another title in 'The Ninety Minutes Series' which offers the reader a comprehensive but easily readable and easily digestible text covering a specific topic in an hour and a half of study.