Beginning Joomla!

by Dan Rahmel

Joomla! is one of the most searched–for and hired–for open source content management systems in the world. Since 2007, the combination of Joomla! and Dan Rahmel 's bestselling Beginning Joomla!, From Novice to Professional have made it so that all you have to do is read a single book to learn how to build sites that take community–authored content and turn it instantly into published web pages with features like rich templating, content management, forums, photo management, and article commenting. Now revised and updated for Joomla! 1.5, this second edition “job–in–a–book” provides the solid core of know–how that you'll need to get the most out of your Joomla! deployment, written to fully exploit the features of latest version of Joomla! More than just a simple “build a toy web site” guide, Beginning Joomla!, Second Edition will give you a wealth of life–saving tips, tricks, tools, and fixes that experienced Joomla! developers use to build powerful, popular web sites while avoiding major headaches. This book covers Dan Rahmel explores the updates to Joomla! 1.5 that you'll need if you already use Joomla! and explains, using the latest terms, how to build a web site from scratch if you don't already use Joomla! An update to the best–selling Joomla! title on the market, this is the Joomla! book to get.

Genres: Technology

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Matt McClard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beginning Joomla! was somewhat of a disappointment. I really hoped to come away with good working knowledge of Joomla! and instead I just feel like I barely got a good introduction.

This book was really geared to someone with little to know working knowledge of web design. I have been designing web sites for about 8 years and I found this book incredibly redundant. There was almost a whole chapter on why someone should use CSS. Which I felt was a huge waste of time because it didn't get in depth enough to really explain CSS, nevermind that it shouldn't even be in this book to start with.

[Joe Tippetts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Joomla is the most popular open source content management system (CMS). With a CMS, a person doesn't have to be technical to add and update website content. This was an easy guide to get up to speed. I've found Joomla much easier to work with than Ektron's CMS 400 (www.ektron.com).

[Sherry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book. I use it in tandem with other Joomla books because there is really no way to get everything you want from just one. It was sufficient for an introductory book on the topic.

[Kevin]

it is a good book

[Jon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is good starting book for Joomla! and learning the basics.