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Eric Tiggeler, Chris Davenport
Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs.This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site.The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do—it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Tracey Porst, Chris Davenport, Tracey Porst
Often a company hires consultants or web developers to build a Joomla! web site, and then takes over running the site in house. If you are a content administrator concerned with creating and maintaining the 'product' of a content management site, and not modifying its code, this book is all you need.This practical, hands-on guide will give you all the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Joomla! site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Administrators. It is a quick-start guide that best serves content administrators and editors and doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs help with article management, multimedia management, search engine optimization, and more will also benefit from it.To explain all the features, we will work on developing and maintaining the content and structure of a fledgling web site for a fictitious company The Party People. Beginning with the basics, which includes an exploration of how to access and navigate around the administration interface, you will move into managing and creating content, including adding images, video, and audio material. There is advice on how to make the most of your multimedia material and how to choose the right file type for your needs.As your skills develop, you will work through techniques for making the site search-engine friendly and securing it against potential malicious attacks. All of these techniques and processes are explained step by step, and by the end of the book you will be able to take advantage your new-found knowledge and skills and maintain your Joomla! site with ease. Keeping your content fresh and engaging becomes easy, once you know how and that's what this book aims to do. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Joomla!-based web sites.
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook. Over 60 quick and direct recipes to help you overcome common Joomla! queries
Tom Canavan, Chris Davenport
If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Chris Davenport, Jose Argudo Blanco
Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
Allan Walker, Chris Davenport
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.This book provides detailed information and all the required know-how for Joomla! administrators to create engaging media-rich Joomla! web sites. Utilizing core Joomla! features and the power of Joomla! Extensions, this step-by-step guide will show you how to include popular media elements into your web site and collaborate with external web resources.You will learn everything you need to know to present text, images, video, and audio in your content both by manually embedding content and using more automated methods. You will learn to create regular podcasts and utilize RSS to help publicize and deliver your site content.Learn about the popular Multimedia Extensions for Joomla! Learn how they benefit your CMS with additional features and how they are installed and configured. Utilize the abundance of external resources now available on the Web. Learn how your Joomla! site can interact and present web content from external resources such as YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Google.This book teaches all you need to know to take your standard Joomla! CMS and turn it into a feature packed and media-rich web site. It highlights the benefits of Multimedia features and warns of the accessibility issues that can arise when they are misused. Follow step-by-step tutorials for implementing popular media elements into your site and learn about the accessibility of these resources and how to utilize them effectively with accessibility in mind.
Joomla! 1.5 od kuchni. Ponad 130 przepisów!
James Kennard
Tu znajdziesz rozwiązania najczęściej spotykanych problemów! Jak zapewnić możliwość rozwoju rozszerzeń w przyszłości? Jak współpracować z bazami danych? Jak obsługiwać błędy, wykorzystując mechanizmy Joomla!? Joomla! to rozbudowany i uniwersalny system zarządzania treścią witryn internetowych, dostępny na prawach open source. Umożliwia tworzenie nie tylko prostych stron internetowych, ale także kompleksowych, rozbudowanych serwisów. Siłą Joomla! jest prostota oraz zaangażowanie twórców w zapewnienie łatwości pracy z tym systemem. Zaawansowani użytkownicy często potrzebują jednak rozwiązań wykraczających poza możliwości dostępnych rozszerzeń. Naprzeciwko tym oczekiwaniom wychodzi elastyczny framework Joomla! — pozwala on programistom dostosowywać się w dowolny sposób i tworzyć własne aplikacje, spełniające wyrafinowane kryteria. Książka "Joomla! 1.5 od kuchni. Ponad 130 przepisów!" przeznaczona jest dla programistów dysponujących doświadczeniem w implementowaniu rozszerzeń dla tego systemu. Stanowi zbiór ponad 130 prostych, lecz niezwykle użytecznych przepisów, pozwalających rozwiązać praktyczne problemy związane z programowaniem w Joomla!. Dzięki swemu bogatemu doświadczeniu autor w efektywny i zrozumiały sposób dzieli się posiadaną wiedzą. Przedstawia niewielkie objętościowo przykłady, które ilustrują sposób radzenia sobie z problemami programistycznymi lub projektowymi, powszechnie spotykanymi podczas tworzenia rozszerzeń Joomla!. Profesjonaliści znajdą tu przede wszystkim praktyczne przepisy rozwiązań konkretnych trudności, a początkujący także wiedzę ogólną (związaną chociażby z obsługą błędów w Joomla!), odpowiedzi na pytania oraz sposoby realizacji standardowych zadań. Rozwiązania dotyczą podstawowych zagadnień, czyli m.in. bezpieczeństwa, dostępu do danych, użytkowników, sesji czy możliwości wykorzystania języków narodowych. Zapewnienie rozwoju rozszerzeń Komunikacja z bazami danych Tworzenie źródeł Atom i RSS Bezpieczeństwo rozszerzeń Obsługa błędów i wyjątków Formatowanie stron Tworzenie międzynarodowych rozszerzeń Komunikacja z użytkownikiem Obiekty JObject i tablice System plików Korzystanie z repozytorium Subversion Poznaj rozwiązania najczęściej spotykanych w pracy z Joomla! 1.5 problemów, aby tworzyć rozszerzenia lepiej, szybciej i bezpieczniej! Prowadzisz bloga, serwis informacyjny, stronę firmową? Dołącz do Programu Partnerskiego - Zostań wtyczką Helionu! więcej
Joomla! 1.5 SEO. Improve the search engine friendliness of your web site
Herbert-Jan Dinther, Chris Davenport
Some sites always appear at the top of a search result while others fail to even make it to the top ten. Wouldn't you want to see your site on the first page of any search result? This is not easily feasible if you are depending solely on the marketing guys whom you hire for SEO.Joomla! SEO will help you to attract more visitors and improve the way you rank in search engines by giving you the techniques and knowledge to work your site into higher visitor numbers. It will help you to create and improve your site in an easy way. Joomla! is great, and you can make it perform even better by using the guidelines and ideas in this book.Search Engine Optimization is becoming a must for every web site. As the competition on the Internet grows you need to make sure your site is among the top results on the major search engines. More and more people use search engines to find the information they are looking for, so you need to make sure you show up in those search result pages to get those visitors to your web site.Joomla! SEO will provide you with a lot of information, ranging from keywords strategies through technical improvements and content creation. All this information and the tutorials provided are targeted to give you the best base for gaining higher rankings.In the book, you will learn how to build a keyword strategy and create a better site structure for SEO. You will read about technical improvements that will give you better options for SEO. There is a separate chapter that helps you create search-engine friendly and keyword-rich URLs.In the end, you will have a web site that is ready to outperform your competitors and a manual to refer to for improving every step you take.
Richard Carter, Chris Davenport
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.Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site's logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.