Product DescriptionA step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast Walk through each step in a friendly and accessible way Customize and extend your Joomla! site Get your Joomla! website up fast In Detail Joomla! is a fully featured web content management system [...]
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A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast Walk through each step in a friendly and accessible way Customize and extend your Joomla! site Get your Joomla! website up fast In Detail Joomla! is a fully featured web content management system and was created in Summer 2005 as a fork from the hugely popular Mambo CMS with many of the original Mambo developers moving their efforts to Joomla! While still in its first release, it is s… More >>
Building Websites with Joomla! A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast
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Very helpful for the beginner and the developer just getting started with Joomla
Rating: 5 / 5
The best book on Joomla CMS for website development. Very practical and oriented towards the beginner. A bit pricey, but then it is the best in it’s kind.
Rating: 4 / 5
Joomla is an open-source CMS that enable you to build PHP websites. Hagen Graf’s book, Building Websites with Joomla, provides you a complete reference for Joomla CMS features and how to use these features in building dynamic websites and e-commerce web applications.
The book starts with defining the terms and concepts of Joomla to easily understand the tutorial in the book. However, the next chapters start to introduce you to Joomla beginning with the installation in chapter 2 and introducing the Joomla interface features.
The following 4th and 5th chapters show you how to customize Joomla site, menus and managing content.
Chapter 6 includes tutorial about how to install component and modules such as Banners, Contacts, Feeds, Polls and Weblinks.
While the 7th chapter concerns with Forums, Comments and Calendars, the 8th chapter talks about Image Gallery and how to Manage Documents in your site. And chapter 9 concerns with E-commerce.
After describing the content of Joomla, chapter 10 and 11 help you to create your own templates and program extensions.
The writer finishes the book with an online reference of the Mambo and Joomla resources.
Rating: 4 / 5
I was pleased by the fact that this book covered the CMS in general. In fact it has many screenshots and tutorials for a general user. I needed more information on the PHP back side.
Rating: 3 / 5
Joomla is a free, open source content management system and this book, by Hagen Graf, will show you everything about how to install and use Joomla for your website. The only thing you need to get started is PHP, Apache and MySQL. Joomla’s modular structure allows the user to customize and extend the basic setup to meet their needs.
Graf begins by discussing Joomla’s various features and gives a general overview of how the program can be applied in real world situations. He then begins to give step-by-step instructions for how to install Joomla. Because the purpose of Joomla is content management, Graf explains in detail the program’s structure and how to enter and organize your content.
After covering the default setup, Graf talks about extensions – components, modules and mambots which are three ways to extend and customize Joomla. There are many of these extensions available on the web that can be used with or have been written specifically for Joomla. Graf discusses a few of his favorites. First, he talks about the Simpleboard component and accompanying modules which will add a forum to the Joomla base program. He also covers the Events Calendar component and accompanying modules. Next, he discusses the gallery component called zOOm Media Gallery and the E-Commerce component called VirtueMart.
You can customize more than just Joomla’s functionality and Graf explains how to create your own webpage templates to customize the appearance of your site. You can even use Adobe Dreamweaver to create these custom templates. Finally, for those readers who have a special need that has not yet been addressed, Graf shows how to create your own extensions.
Hagen Graf has been programming since the late 70’s and now works in his wife’s consulting company as well as many other projects. He has written three computer books in his native German language and two have been translated into English.
Rating: 4 / 5