Joomla 2 5 Beginner S Guide

Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are bolstered by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! website. This book is written for beginners to website design. By the end of the book you will have built a complete custom content managed website, and be ready to build any kind of website.

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!

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

"Jumla" is the Swahili word for "all together" and was the inspiration for the name Joomla!. The Joomla! project is one of the biggest content management systems worldwide, backed by a global community. Joomla! 2.5 is the sucessor of Joomla! 1.5. It is a long term release and represents the state of the art for the Joomla! project from January 2012 to July 2013. It lets you create unique websites in your own language. Even if you are not a specialist: -) Chapters: - About the Book - Introduction - Showcase - Installation - Structures and Terms - What's new in Joomla! 2.5? - Managing Content - How to Create an 'About Us' Page - A Typical Article - Media Manager - Contact Form - Statuses, Trash and Check-Ins - Structure Your Content with Categories - Website and Content Configuration - Templates - Navigation - Users and Permissions - Extension Management - Core Extensions - Modules - Plug-Ins - Working with Templates - The Beez Template - Why SEO is important for you - Multi-Language Websites - A Joomla! 2.5 Website from Scratch - Upgrade from older versions - Earning respect and money with Joomla - Resources

Why choosing Joomla! for your website development? Simply because you do not need to have any technical knowledge or experience in website design to create an impressive and high quality websites. Joomla makes it easy to manage and update content. Once a website is set up, it is easy to: Add new webpages Edit old webpages Link new webpages to the main or sub navigation Upload pictures & Videos Edit text to make them web friendly WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK? Young entrepreneurs 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! 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. There are 626,007Joomla! Forum members and over 9,000 Extensions listed in the Joomla! Extensions Directory available for you to extend the functionality of your website. With access to a Webhost/server, a browser and the Joomla! Software, you can create great websites for FREE. Some of the great and creative things you can do with Joomla!: E-commerce and online reservations Corporate Websites or portals Hospital Management System Shipment Tacking System Online magazines, newspapers, & publications Government applications Small business Websites Non-profit and Organizational Websites Community-based portals School Websites & Online Quiz System Personal or family homepages and many more.... Read through the entire book, follow the steps and master how to build a Joomla! website record time.

A concise guide to everything that's new in Joomla! 1.6.

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.