About this item
Joomla! is one of the fastest growing Open Source Content Management Systems on the market today and has won multiple awards since it's release in 2005. Currently, Joomla! has the largest 3rd party developer and designer community, with over 160,000 current registered users, over 2,000 templates, and 3,000 extensions. This task-based guide to creating, customizing, and maintaining a dynamic Joomla! 1.5 web site starts with the fundamental concepts and advantages of a Content Management System and then walks the user through setting up a server environment, downloading and installing Joomla!, adding and structuring content, using components, modules, and plugins, and administrating from both the back and front-ends. The book finishes with more advanced topics, including CSS, search engine optimization (SEO) , and customizing templates and the Joomla! framework itself. It's the perfect guide to getting started with Joomla or for those users that want to expand their skills.
About the Author
Marni Derr has been using Joomla since 2005 and published one of the first available Joomla books in 2008. Since then she has built dozens of Joomla web sites, provided Joomla training, and written custom Joomla documentation for developers, end-users, and clients. Over the last decade she has implemented over 1,000 Joomla extensions. She is now working on a series of Mini-Manuals to help other Joomla developers and end-users in selecting not the best extension, but the 'right' extension for their web site(s) .
