Joomla! For Dummies 1st Edition by Steve Holzner (PDF)

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With its pre-coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies.Learn to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, let your guests sign up for e-mail lists, and much more. Joomla! For Dummies helps you to:Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home pageSee how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layoutUse templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them toCreate searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modulesBuild search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site trafficExplore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing themCheck into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can doFind modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and moreJoomla! lets you concentrate on content instead of struggling with code. So grab Joomla! For Dummies and start creating!

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Build cool Web sites without coding — it’s easy with Joomla!Joomla! makes it easy, and this book makes it easier yet! See how to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, allow your guests to sign up for e-mail lists, and much more, all with portable Joomla! modules. Instead of struggling with code, you can concentrate on content. Here’s how!Jump into Joomla! — acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home pageThe meaning of menus — see how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layoutTaming templates — use these powerful collections of PHP and CSS to make your pages do what you want them toModule madness — create searches, polls, menus, newsflashes, and banners with built-in Joomla! modulesJoomla! and SEO — build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site trafficExtend your options — explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing themPlug it in — check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can doOpen the book and find:Step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing Joomla!Examples of cool Joomla! sitesHow to remove and rename menusEasy ways to add pages to your siteHow to make menu options work for youTips for tracking page hitsModules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and moreThe secrets of keywords About the Author Steven Holzner is the award-winning author of more than 100 tech books, with more than 3 million copies sold in 18 languages. He’s written ten For Dummies books and many computer-book bestsellers. He’s written on nearly every Web topic (including JavaServer Pages, PHP, HTML, and XML), and he specializes in topics such as Web-site design. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, and he’s been a faculty member at Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He used to design Web sites from scratch but uses Joomla! now. Nancy Conner most recently wrote Google Apps: The Missing Manual (O’Reilly, 2008). Her ability to explain complex technical material in language that’s clear, simple, and fun has made her a sought-after author. She’s written on a wide variety of Web topics, including eBay, QuickBase, the Unifi ed Modeling Language, and fi eld-programmable gate arrays. Her fi rst novel, a mystery, will be published in 2009.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Confusing. Hard to follow. Just ok.

⭐This is good if you are just starting out with Joomla. I am learning this on my own as I up-date our church’s web page. If we stay with Joomla I will be buying more instructional books. This was very helpful.

⭐GOOD PRODUCT AND FAST DELIVERY.

⭐I like most of the Dummies books and this is another good one to get you start it. If you’ve never used Joomla before and you want to know how to this it right away, this is the book to read, and you’ll get the information you need to get it going.

⭐Although Joomla for Dummies is well-written on a sentence-by-sentence level, the content was lacking. The information is repetitious and organized poorly. Worse, the index is all but useless, so you’re out of luck if you need to look up something. (For example, “Separators” is not under “S” but under “Menus.”)This book covers very basic and advanced concepts, but not intermediate ones. It’s not a complete waste of money, but it could have been so much better.

⭐Unfortunately Joomla is losing the battle to WordPress.The book is just another dummies volume, hastily put together with basic contents.

⭐Well written, well organized, entry level overview of this popular CMS application. Excellent for beginners, when read, you’ll have a clear basic understanding of how it’s structured and how to use it. Very good jumping off point for getting into more advanced use.

⭐I never could get any clear understanding out of it although that doesn’t mean it isn’t an excellent resource. Someone who is a bit more techie than I would probably have a better view of this product.

⭐I’m half way through this book and it is annoying me! The exercises make sense and lead you through Joomla. However, somebody with too much say in the production of this book has never seen the system (or even a hypertext page, it would seem!). It keeps telling you to “double click” web links (who in publishing these days doesn’t know how to use the web?) and it frequently mixes controls, telling you to use an action control in order to select an item, then click another control to perform the action that you just caused with the original click! Shoddy work and way too intrusive to make the book worthwhile.

⭐I found this book confusing and unhelpful.Once I had worked that out I looked on the web and found really clear tutorials which knocked this into a cocked hat (apart from the bits that were word-for-word identical of course).Some of the copy was already out of date. The basic lesson is if you want to find out about the web, look on the web.

⭐I love the way these books are written and own quite a few of them. When i needed to learn Joomla for work, this was my first choice. Everything is explained well and isn’t too much of a dry read!

⭐As described excellent service it was just what I wanted for Christmas and the New Year is that enough obviously not?

⭐Great

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