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Joomla! 1.6: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 3rd Edition

Joomla! 1.6: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 3rd Edition

Joomla! 1.6: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 3rd Edition

Praise for Previous Edition of Joomla!: A User’s Guide. The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!™−The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System

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 guide to Joomla for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.[ad code=3 align=center]
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Joomla! For Dummies, 2 edition

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Build template-based web sites without the hassle of writing code! Joomla! is a free, open source PHP & MySQL-based content management system that allows you to create interactive, community-based Web sites without having to write or program code in PHP or ASP.NET. This fun and friendly introduction to Joomla! shows you how to create a rich, interactive Web site that does not require any code.

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No matter your skill level, this easy-to-understand resource demonstrates how to drop preconfigured modules that already contain PHP and MySQL code directly into your Joomla! site. Thanks to the Dummies fun and friendly approach, you’ll quickly see how easy to create a rich, interactive Web site with Joomla!

Demonstrates how to create a business site—complete with shopping cart—quickly and easily
Walks you through developing Web sites with discussions, RSS feeds, picture submissions, and more
Includes coverage of the newest version of Joomla!, explains its completely new administrative features, and reviews its ability to provide different levels of access to different users via much-requested access control lists Continue reading

Joomla!1.6.0 is now available for immediate download

Joomla 1.6

This new version of Joomla includes more power, more control, and more options than ever before.

Rebuilt from the ground up in much of the application, this latest Joomla release will delight the casual site builder while helping small, medium, and enterprise businesses succeed in delivering web sites, intranets and applications to their respective markets.

Delivering power through simplicity, Joomla 1.6 ensures its place as the popular CMS of its kind. Joomla 1.6 delivers new features to end-users and site administrators including:

  • Finer access controls for viewing and editing content with configurable user groups and viewing levels
  • A user-defined category structure, from simple one-level to complex multi-level categories
  • Installation improvements allowing for multiple extension installations in one package, updatable with a single click[ad code=1 align=center] Continue reading

The Official Joomla! Book

The Official Joomla! BookThe Official Joomla! Book is the authoritative and comprehensive Joomla! reference for every administrator, developer, designer, and content manager. Distilling the unsurpassed experience of two long-time Joomla! contributors, it teaches exactly what you need to know, through practical example sites and crystal-clear explanations.

If you’re new to Joomla!, you’ll learn how to quickly create usable, effective sites. If you’re an experienced Joomla! user, you’ll learn how to make your sites more flexible, feature-rich, visually attractive, and useful. And whether new or experienced, you’ll learn how Joomla! really works, so you can fully leverage its power whenever you’re ready. You’ll also get to know the Joomla! community by hearing from twelve community members through in-depth interviews, and you’ll learn how to participate in the Joomla! project in ways that make sense for you.[ad code=3 align=center] Continue reading

Learn to Create Professional Quality Joomla! Templates

Learn to Create Professional Quality Joomla! Templates

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book on designing Joomla! templates. Written by Tessa Blakely Silver, Joomla! Template Design is a complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique website templates for the free Joomla! PHP Content Management System. Continue reading

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.
This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site. The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement. Continue reading

Beginning Joomla!: From Novice to Professional

Beginning Joomla!: From Novice to Professional

Beginning Joomla!: From Novice to Professional

Joomla!, exclamation point and all, 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 all the latest features like rich templating, community member profile management, forums, photo management, and article commenting. Continue reading

JV News II – Magazine Joomla Template

JV News II - Magazine Joomla Template

JV News II - Magazine Joomla Template

In order to continue JV News’ success with nearly 8000 download times, JV News II has been released as our sincere thanks to customers and friends who have followed up and supported us during the time. “Professional, beautiful, impressive and useful” is the first feeling when you browse to the live demo of the JV News II. This feeling results from the combination of thorough space exploitation, fresh color scheme – red, pink and grey, and effectively exclusive modules including JV Headline, JV TabsJV G-Weather, JV Video, JV Stock Quote, JV Twitter and JV News module. Continue reading

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook : how to make template in Joomla

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly. Continue reading

New Joomla! Community Magazine

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After many months of hard work by a very dedicated group of volunteers, today they proudly announce that the new Joomla! Community Magazine has launched! You can get to the JCM by clicking on the new Magazine link in the horizontal navigation for the Joomla! community site, or by going directly to http://magazine.joomla.org.

In each monthly JCM issue you will find stories that will educate, inform, challenge, and inspire you. And because we encourage community members to submit articles to the JCM, we also hope you will think about what makes Joomla! special to you, and then come back here to share your story with the rest of the community. And that is really what the JCM is all about: Helping members of the Joomla! community connect with each other and share their stories.  Continue reading

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