Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 475 pages
- Published by: Apress July 19, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1590598482
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590598481
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Product Description
Do you want the ability to manage documents, photos, and other content over the Web but dont want to shell out thousands of dollars in proprietary solutions? Want to create an online community for your hobby or user group? Youre not alone. For thousands of like-minded around the globe, the answer is Joomla!, an open source content management system used to manage all sorts of data over the Web.
While Joomla! is relatively easy to install, a fair amount of knowledge is required in order to configure the application to your specific needs.
Beginning Joomla! answers many of the questions youre sure to have, guiding you through the process of creating your own design templates, adding and managing content, and adding popular community features such as article commenting, user profile management, and forums. Later chapters discuss e-commerce integration, explore search engine optimization, and show you how to extend Joomla! by creating your own plug-ins.
About The Author
Dan Rahmel is a Windows programmer with more than 14 years of experience
designing and implementing information systems and deploying mid-sized
client/server solutions using
Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL,
Microsoft Access, and Visual FoxPro.
As an author, he has written over a dozen books including Nuts-and-Bolts
Filmmaking, Visual Basic Programmer's Reference (first, second, and
third editions), Building Web Database Applications with Visual Studio,
Teach Yourself Database Programming in 24 Hours, Developing
Client-Server Applications with Visual Basic, and many more. His books
have been translated into various languages including Chinese, Japanese,
Spanish, French, and Portuguese. He is a contributor to DBMS, Internet
Advisor, and American Programmer magazines.
Reader ReviewsI wrote the initial review, the gist of which I leave below, after completing only the introductory chapter. I have since read very carefully every word of this fantastic book up to page 139. I am now so pleased with this surprisingly good book that if I could change my rating (which I can't due to amazon restrictions), I would raise it to five stars. The author has really done a fine job imparting his vast experience to the reader. He's very generous with his many valuable ideas about website design, organizational tips, installation on various operating systems, and more. For example, he casually introduces the Leo outline editor, which he uses to document a joomla web site he is explaining. Being introduced to the Leo outliner, which may well be the killer application for Python, is of itself worth the price of the book. I now have Leo up and running and am pouring through the tutorials that come with leo. Leo is incredible, and it's quite motivating to read that an author of Dan Rahmel's calibre uses Leo extensively himself. Here's the gist of my original review: ...snip... The author states that in version 1.5 it is not necessary to delete the installation directory after installation. He says it was necessary in prior versions but not 1.5. ...snip... Well, ...snip... Joomla 1.5 release candidate will *not* work until the installation directory is removed.... exactly the opposite of what the author said. ...snip... the author only explains how to install Joomla on a goDaddy web host. I think the author could darn well have spent $12.95 for a yahoo account so he could say something about installing Joomla on a yahoo host. There are severe problems installing Joomla on a yahoo host that he could have helped readers understand and avoid. ...snip... The book ultimately seems worthwhile, most especially because it deals exclusively with version 1.5. Still, I subtract two stars for the reasons mentioned.
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