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Joomla 1.5

Joomla 1.5 - A User's Guide

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 book to Joomla for every site manager, administrator, and developer.

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If you are here, you have either purchased Joomla 1.5- A User's Guide, or hopefully are just about to! This site is the companion site for this new book about Joomla 1.5 published by Prentice Hall. This site is an important part of the book, an experiment in print and web publishing!

Get the Joomla 1.5 book

After over a year in development, the have-to-have book about 1.5 is finally hitting shelves and shipping from the publishers and Amazon.com. I think that this book offers amazing value and I have packed it along with some great downloads you get with the book. You get free access to the companion site, www.joomlabook.com. This site features:

  • an active forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book from a Joomla expert (well, me anyway)
  • 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. This means you can create a school, blog or small business site instantly!
  • 4 free tutorial templates and 3 free templates from joomlashack.com including our popular commercial template - JS Aqualine!

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Need Something for Joomla 1.0?

If you are currently working with 1.0, you can still get the Joomla Administrator's Manual for only $27 in ebook form. If you need to get a hard copy head to LuLu. At over 2000 copies sold and many satisfied readers, you won't be disappointed.



The Joomla Book Reviewed at JoomlaJabber

If you like podcasts about Joomla, you should check out www.joomlajabber.com, its a regular viewpoint on the Joomlaverse.

Hosted by Tom Canavan AKA Vscribe and Kathy Strickland AKA PixelBunyiP, its a great resource. Their latest show has a small review of Joomla! A User's Guide. Check it out!

 
Reviews of the Best Selling Book for Joomla 1.5

After hitting the book shelves in December, Joomla 1.5 - A User's Guide has already become a best seller! It has managed to reach the top 1000 Amazon best seller list a few times and has peaked at 282!

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Complete Joomla Site SQL Dumps now Available

After working on some bugs with how to import and and export SQL from Joomla sites, you can now download various Joomla sites from the book as SQL databases. 

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The Joomla Book is now Shipping

The Joomla Book - A User's Guide to Joomla 1.5. The Easy-to-Use Book to learn Joomla 1.5 is now shipping! Customers that have purchased the book from Amazon or directly from Prentice Hall should soon be getting their copies in the mail. 

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Browse Six Joomla 1.5 demos from the Joomla Book

If you are struggling to visualize some of the concepts from Joomla! A User's Guide, then you need to check out the live Joomla 1.5 demos. 

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