Joomla 1.5 - A User's Guide
Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website Leading Joomla consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and more. You’ll find never-before-published Joomla 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 constantly turn to this book for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla 1.5 reference content. - Understand content management, what Joomla does, and how its components fit together
- Build Joomla sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
- Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables
- Create dynamic pages and effective Joomla navigation
- Work with Joomla modules and components
- Search engine optimization (SEO) for Joomla sites
- Start-to-finish Joomla case studies: building a school website, a small business brochure site, and a blog
- The most valuable Joomla extensions and add-ons: how to find them and use them
BARRIE NORTH has more than 15 years of Internet experience as a Web designer, plus over a decade of classroom teaching experience and curriculum development expertise. In 2005, he launched Compass Design, a Joomla consultant company specializing in Joomla Web design and SEO; and partnered to found Joomlashack, a leading provider of Joomla templates and customization services. Barrie consults on Web marketing, search engine optimization, usability, and standards compliance for Joomla. A former member of the Joomla Design and Documentation Working Groups, he blogs about Joomla at compassdesigns.net.
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