Joomla! Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide

Master Joomla! hands-on, step-by-step, through easy, practical examples!

 

Joomla! now powers tens of millions of websites of every size and type. But many beginners find it confusing, and most Joomla! books are too complex to help. Joomla! Explained is the solution. Top Joomla! trainer Stephen Burge teaches everything beginners need to know--and nothing they dont need to know!

 

Joomla! Explained requires absolutely no experience with Joomla! content management, website construction, programming, scripting, or even HTML. Stephen Burge has taught thousands of beginners--and thousands more whove experimented with Joomla! but havent mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding Joomla! users up the learning curve--from confusion to results!

 

Youll master Joomla! one easy step at a time, through a complete hands-on case study. Burge presents crystal-clear visuals, explanations, and analogies--all extensively tested with real Joomla! beginners. This books quick, easy coverage includes

 

Understanding what Joomla! does and how it works

Installing the latest version of Joomla

Navigating your sites visitor and administrator areas

Mastering workflows that make site creation easy

Adding text, images, links, and formatting

Creating efficient, usable navigation

Providing contact forms, ad banners, and link directories

Using modules to enable site registration and search

Adding voting and other smaller plug-in features

Quickly changing site designs with Joomla! templates

Finding, choosing, installing, and using extensions

Building both business and personal sites, step by step

Giving customized access to different types of users

Managing site versions in multiple languages

Efficiently administering, backing up, and updating sites

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Steve is the founder of JoomlaTraining.com. He also runs Alledia.com, a leading Joomla web development firm in Atlanta, Georgia. Steve's firm has built over 200 Joomla-powered websites. Specializing in web marketing, Steve writes a popular blog about Joomla! and is an Editor at the Joomla.org Extensions Directory. He currently travels widely helping people to learn and thrive with Joomla. In his extensive face-to-face interaction with Joomla learners Steve has gathered requests, suggestions and advice from hundreds of Joomla beginners about how they learn best.

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Preface     xv

Acknowledgments     xvi

About the Author     xvii

 

Chapter 1  Joomla! Explained     1

The What, When, Where, and Who of Joomla     2

    Why Joomla?     2

    How Much Is Joomla?     3

    What Does the Joomla Name Mean?     3

    How Many Versions of Joomla Are There?     4

    Who Uses Joomla?     5

This Book Explained     8

    What Youll Need     8

    What This Book Covers     8

    This Book Is Concise     10

    This Book Is Active     10

    This Book Uses Specific Examples     10

Whats Next?     12

 

Chapter2  Joomla! Installations Explained     13

Things You Can Do After Reading This Chapter     14

Choose the Best Place to Install Joomla     14

    Your Computer     14

    A Web Server     15

Choose the Best Way to Install Joomla!     16

Install Joomla Automatically     16

Install Joomla Manually     22

    Step 1: Create a Database     23

    Step 2: Download the Joomla Files and Upload Them to Our Web Server     26

    Step 3: Complete the Joomla Installation by Connecting the Database and Files Together     29

Get Help If Youre Stuck Installing Joomla!     36

Whats Next?     37

 

Chapter3  Joomla! Sites Explained     39

Things You Can Do After Reading This Chapter     39

Understand the Two Areas of a Joomla Site     39

    Visitor Area     40

    Administrator Area     40

Understand the Administrator Area of Your Joomla Site     41

Things Youll See All the Time in Joomla     44

    Language     44

    Page Layouts     44

    Individual Page Layouts     46

Understand the Visitor Area of Your Joo...

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