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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!

Annotation Joomla! is a content management system that helps both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites. Joomla! has extensions for construcing job sites; web sites for handling employment and careers. It can take hours to build even an elementary job site but imagine yourself building a job site such as Monster, CareerBuilder, a niche job listing such as TechCrunch or your own company job site within few minutes and with minimal development efforts. Building job sites with Joomla! shows you how to create your own job site with Joomla! with the Jobs! Pro extension. From the basic installation and configuration, you will see all the steps required to assemble a working job site in next to no time. This book is a step-by-step tutorial for creating a job site using Joomla!. First you will set up a server environment to install Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs!. Next you will learn how you can use Jobs! configuration settings to control the components of your job site such as adding companies, adding social bookmarking buttons, enabling the users to post their resume online and so on. You will learn to easily manage your site using the Jobs! control panel. This will be followed by using job site template to quickly create a job site and simultaneously test the site you have created. Next you will learn how to speed up the communication between employers and the jobseekers using e-mail templates. You can also entirely control user registration system from Jobs! Pro admin panel. You will also learn to add and manage job types, job categories, and applications to keep your database organized and to keep track of the application status. You will also learn to add a jobseeker or an employer and to manage resume fields. Then you will configure credit systems to charge an amount of money to users according to the specific service provided. By the end of this book you will learn to professionally optimize your Joomla! Job site for search engines and look at list of words that need to be avoided in the URLs. A practical stepwise tutorial to build your professional website using Joomla!

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This is a guide to developing Java EE 5 applications deployed to the high-performance, Java EE 5-compliant GlassFish application server, which is quickly gaining massive popularity. After GlassFish installation and configuration, it covers application development, including all major Java EE 5 APIs: JSPs, JSTL, Servlets, and JSF for web applications; the Java Persistence API and JDBC to interact with RDBMS; EJB 3, including container-managed transactions and EJB declarative security through annotations; the JMS API for messaging; the JAAS API for secure applications; frameworks built on the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf. It is aimed at Java developers wishing to become proficient with Java EE 5, who are expected to have some experience with Java and J2EE technologies and to have developed and deployed applications in the past, but need no previous knowledge of Java EE, and will teach the reader how to use GlassFish to develop and deploy applications.

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.

Build and maintain impressive user-friendly web sites the fast and easy way with Joomla! 1.5.