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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! 1.5 Template Design – Create your own professional-quality templates

Joomla! 1.5 Template Design (Tessa Blakeley Silver)

Joomla! 1.5 Template Design (Tessa Blakeley Silver)

Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide

  • Create Joomla! 1.5 Templates for your sites
  • Debug, validate, and package your templates
  • Tips for tweaking existing templates with Flash, extensions and JavaScript libraries

Using Joomla! Templates with HTML and CSS allows you to give a unique look and feel to your site, present a “fresh face” to your pre-existing content, ensure that your site design is consistent with your brand, and build a site layout that suits your unique needs. A quality web site is easily within your grasp using these cutting-edge templates. However, even experienced web developers need help to take their designs and turn them into flexible and easily maintainable Joomla! 1.5 templates. 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

Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development : Study and Learn Joomla

Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development : Study and Learn Joomla

Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development : Study and Learn Joomla

By programmers for programmers-the essential beginner’s guide to building websites with Joomla! Want to build and maintain dynamic websites without having to learn HTML and CSS? Joomla! open-source web content management system and this beginner’s guide are all you need. This book walks you step-by-step through the process of building a website with Joomla!, providing detailed instruction in Wrox’s practical, programmer-to- programmer style. Continue reading

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia elements using FTP and the Media Manager

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia elements

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia elements

Joomla! is a content management system designed to organize and deliver content within a web site environment. Multimedia provides us with stunning interactive user experiences and wonderful design options, but it requires discipline and knowledge to utilize it effectively so that we do not alienate our audiences. If you want to display more than just text on your Joomla! pages, this book has been designed for you and is a must-read. It takes you beyond the basics of Joomla! and helps to take full advantage this powerful CMS structure to deliver media-rich web content to your site users. 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

Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development

Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development

Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development

Joomla! is one of the world’s top open source content management systems, which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to enhance the functionality of your website. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in its application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Continue reading

How do I Change and recover my Joomla Administrator password?

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This helped to recover my admin password after the site got hacked.

If you know the email address that was used, the simplest thing is to do is to use the “lost password” Front-end function if you have made it available. If not, you will need access to the MySQL database.

You have two choices, either add a new super administrator or change the password stored in the data base. To do this you need to go to phpMyAdmin (or use a similar tool) and manually edit the database. Before doing this back up our complete database. 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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