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Joomla! Template Design: Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide: A complete guide for web designers to all aspects ... Joomla! 1.0.8 PHP Content Management System
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781847191441
ISBN: 1847191444
Label: Packt Publishing
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: June 29, 2007
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Release Date: June 29, 2007
Studio: Packt Publishing
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A complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique website templates for the free Joomla! 1.0.8 PHP Content Management System
- Create Joomla! Templates for your sites
- Debug, validate, and package your templates
- Tips for tweaking existing templates
In Detail
Joomla! is a free, award-winning content management system written in PHP that allows users to easily publish their content on the World Wide Web and intranets. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
The Joomla! template is a series of files within the Joomla! CMS that control the presentation of the content. The template is the basic foundation design for viewing your Joomla! website. To produce the effect of a "complete" website, the template works hand in hand with the content stored in the Joomla! databases.
This book will help you build templates for your Joomla! site. It will help you understand the options in dealing with them. It will help you learn about how to use multiple templates in the same site. It will advise you on creating beautiful Joomla! designs, and using CSS rather than tables in your templates. The book guides you on using animations and other effects in Joomla! templates and provides you with tricks for tweaking existing templates.
What you will learn from this book?
- Set up a basic workflow for Joomla! template design
- Work on layouts for your template
- Debug and validate your template code
- Use the W3C's XHTML and CSS validation tools
- Package up your finished template into a working ZIP file
- Know the standard XHTML markup and CSS classes for Joomla!
- Create Suckerfish drop-down menus
- Get Flash content quickly into your Joomla! site
- Create interactive and dynamic forms in your Joomla! site
- Download and install Joomla! Extensions for your Joomla! site
- Use the wrapper (Wrapper Menu Item) for fully working Ajax applications
Approach
This book covers the "how-tos" of creating templates for Joomla. There is also advice about what works and what to consider when working with your Joomla! template.
Who this book is written for?
This book is aimed at web designers who want to create their own unique templates for Joomla!. Readers should have basic knowledge of Joomla! (which can be obtained by working through Building Websites with Joomla!) and also some knowledge of CSS and HTML, and using Dreamweaver for coding purposes.
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Amazon is still selling this for ver 1.0.8?
Sorry, but Joomla is now at 1.5.10 and ver 1.5.x is TOTALLY different from ver 1.0.x.
May have been a good book in its day, but now belongs in the bin with "Guide to Windows for Workgroups 3.11"
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Probably this book was a very simple guide in order to build a Template for Joomla! 1.0, but it doesn't work at all with the new version of Joomla! 1.5
But, thinking deeper, I would neither recomend it to those of you that are working with Joomla! 1.0 This is not a good tutorial at all, it is concerned in very basic computers topics through all the book.
Conclusion: Don't buy this book. Just google "Joomla! 1.5 Tutorial" and you will find lots of better guides.
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The only regret I have is that I need information on Joomla 1.5 not 1.0.8. How ever much of the information in this book can be used and I found the book well written and in plain English. Hope to see an update for 1.5 from this author, I will purchase immediately!
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The style of the book worked very well for me. It was a great balance of solid instructions and visual examples that made it very easy to understand and follow. I have other books by this author and highly recommend for the novice to those more advanced who may need a refresher.
Kudos to the author and Amazon for carrying this selection!
R. Pettway
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I have 3 books on Joomla and this is the only book that truly helped me through getting an original design (from another party) into one of my Joomla sites. I run three sites with Joomla, all for non-profit organizations and therefore have to do my work on night and weekends. I'm a web professional and know the concepts of building sites but I'm a manager and don't build sites everyday for a living. This book got me through the template basics in way that allowed me to implement an original design that had no references to typical Joomla page layout areas, in a couple of days. By taking you through the process of designing a Joomla template from scratch I was finally able to understand how a web page was generated by Joomla and how I could eliminate much of the "noise" in the default setup. It's possible that a web beginner may find some things difficult and perhaps a comprehensive description of the Joomla content engine will not be found but I heartily recommend this book if you need ... Read More
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