Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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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
Studio: Packt Publishing
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This complete, easy-to-use guide for web designers wanting to create unique templates for Joomla! websites covers template design workflow, debugging and validating code, creating drop-down menus, interactive and dynamic forms, and packaging templates for distribution, with advice on using multiple templates, replacing tables with CSS, using animation and other effects, and tricks to tweak existing templates. Readers need basic knowledge of Joomla! (which can be gained from Packt's Building Websites with Joomla!), of CSS and HTML, and of using Dreamweaver for coding. Written in PHP, free, award-winning Joomla! CMS is easy to install, simple to manage, reliable, and allows easy publication of content to Web or intranet. From simple websites to complex corporate applications, it is used world-wide. A Joomla! template controls the presentation of content; it provides the design for viewing a Joomla! website and works with the content stored in databases to present a complete website.
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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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This is the best and really the ONLY book out there for Joomla. Now, I have to admit that I don't really like Joomla. However, I'm a web designer and occasionally I have to create or work on sites in Joomla anyway.
At first, I bought another Joomla book but all it did was left me confused. It didn't help me and didn't talk at all about fixing up a template to reflect a client's logo and branding which is what I usually need to know. And forget about online documentation for Joomla; it's just not out there. And the interface is not intuitive at all, so you'd think documentation would be a given.
But THIS book is completely awesome and it does what it says it does. The author showed me clearly how to make a Joomla site look the way I need it to look AND in the process, she explained many things about Joomla to me that made no sense at all to me before (for example, why Joomla does some of the things it does, what parts of it spit out html tables and what parts I ... Read More
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I bought this book to learn how to create Joomla templates. Look at chapters 1, 2 and 3. NOT A SINGLE WORD HOW YOU DO IT.
In chapter Two 3 screenshots how you can change the Rhuck template without coding. But nothing as how this gets done.
In chapter Three the author has the nerve to start with "We continue with our modified Rhuck template" - the changed template he forgot to describe in chapter Two.
Yes, very useful information about what I don't want to know about. Like which color picker to choose, this is a nice editor, that is a great photo editor, and you set it up like this.
Sorry, but if I want to learn how the NVU editor or Dreamweaver works, I look for different titles. That has nothing to do with coding templates.
I expect some guidance as how to change the template css, the related images and the module positions so a newbie template editor can get acquainted with the beginnings.
In fact, if you ... Read More
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I thought I would learn to make joomla templates. But this is just a makeover of one of the standard themes.
I read the entire book and didn't read anything new.
I could not imagine that the publisher of this book read it too, because he would have thrown it in a bin
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Joomla! Template Design covers a wide variety of topics in Web design and development, but fails to thoroughly cover the topic of the book. The topics covered range from coding to animation, with less than 10% about Joomla! templates.
As stated, the book is targeted at Web designers, yet the author does not appear to be a designer, as the design of the template example lacks any modern design techniques or style. The single template example was not custom, as the book description promises, but a modification of the basic template that comes with Joomla!.
It is clear that the author is passionate about Web development and the Web standards movement. Unfortunately, the book is unfocused and fails to fulfill expectations.
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