Product Description

With its pre–coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies.

Learn to link articles on your site with drop–down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full–site search, let your guests sign up for e–mail lists, and much more. Joomla! For Dummies helps you to:

• Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page
• See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout
• Use templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them to
• Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built–in Joomla! modules
• Build search engine–friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic
• Explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them
• Check into plug–ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do
• Find modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more

Joomla! lets you concentrate on content instead of struggling with code. So grab Joomla! For Dummies and start creating!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37059 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

From the Back Cover
Build cool Web sites without coding — it′s easy with Joomla!

Joomla! makes it easy, and this book makes it easier yet! See how to link articles on your site with drop–down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full–site search, allow your guests to sign up for e–mail lists, and much more, all with portable Joomla! modules. Instead of struggling with code, you can concentrate on content. Here′s how!

• Jump into Joomla! — acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page

• The meaning of menus — see how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout

• Taming templates — use these powerful collections of PHP and CSS to make your pages do what you want them to

• Module madness — create searches, polls, menus, newsflashes, and banners with built–in Joomla! modules

• Joomla! and SEO — build search engine–friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic

• Extend your options — explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them

• Plug it in — check into plug–ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do

Open the book and find:

• Step–by–step instructions for downloading and installing Joomla!

• Examples of cool Joomla! sites

• How to remove and rename menus

• Easy ways to add pages to your site

• How to make menu options work for you

• Tips for tracking page hits

• Modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more

• The secrets of keywords

About the Author
Steven Holzner is the award–winning author of more than 100 tech books, with more than 3 million copies sold in 18 languages. He’s written ten For Dummies books and many computer–book bestsellers. He’s written on nearly every Web topic (including JavaServer Pages, PHP, HTML, and XML), and he specializes in topics such as Web–site design. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, and he’s been a faculty member at Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He used to design Web sites from scratch but uses Joomla! now.

Nancy Conner most recently wrote Google Apps: The Missing Manual (O’Reilly, 2008). Her ability to explain complex technical material in language that’s clear, simple, and fun has made her a sought–after author. She’s written on a wide variety of Web topics, including eBay, QuickBase, the Unifi ed Modeling Language, and fi eld–programmable gate arrays. Her fi rst novel, a mystery, will be published in 2009.

Customer Reviews

Joolma for Dummies
I bought this after downloading and changing the application templates. I think it would have been better to do it from scratch again after the purchase. Having said that I still feel like a dummy!! Sometimes this book makes it difficult to navigate to a point of resolution.Of course resolution is what it is supposed to provide! So good but could be better and it is not the answer to all your Joolma dreams!

Excellent step-by-step introduction
Received this book late last week. In three days, I've managed to create a passable website thanks to the simplicity of the examples given in this book.

If, like me, you're unsure of the technicalities of creating a website, this book will guide you step-by-step through the process. It also gives an introduction (I don't think a book could do more) to the wide scope of additional functionality out there on the web. It covers Joomla 1.5.

A word of warning; if you're technically adept, this book is probably not the one you're looking for, as it assumed NO knowledge whatsoever. The reason I like it is the reason you'll hate it.

OK - But not brilliant
The book is ok and it does work as a beginners guide, but the fact is that you can find most of this on the Joomla web forums.

You can generally find more info on the internet than in these type of books, but it is nice to have a hardcopy that you can turn to.