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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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Utter garbage. Incomplete explanations & poor communication skills. You're better off installing JOOMLA using online instructions & then playing with it until you understand. Solutions for any problem you run into can easily be found with a Google search! Again - don't waste your money...
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This book is a great way to get introduced to Joomla if, like me, you are only used to creating static content websites. With the help of this book I got a site up and running in a really short time and was mostly pleased with the results. If there is one flaw with this book it is that it covers too much and falls short on some of the finer points of content management. I searched forever through the book to find out how to achieve a couple of things that were relatively simple, but on teh whole this book is a great product and I highly recommend it.
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This is a very poor training book for anybody that not a complete beginner to Joomla. Dan Rahmel is an experience computer book writer and this is one of his worse books. it goes into number of subjects that don't really have anything to do with Joomla. The controlling editor obviously had no control over Mr Rahmel need to explain every type of open source program that you can use with jooomla!
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As a web graphic designer, I want to expand my skills into CMS systems. I thought this book would be a good start, but after reading it, I learned little more than how to install Joomla and basic interactions. The book is states it's for "Novice to Professional," but a more accurate description would be "a getting started guide".
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These technical books are expensive (I paid full price for this in a bookstore) but worth every penny when they provide the answers to those inevitable snags you hit on a project. This book, however, almost never had the answers I needed. Mainly it points out the features in the Joomla admin interface, but that I could figure out on my own. I wanted to know things like how to download a template and customize it for my site. Instead the book tells you where the CSS code is and that you "can edit it" -- duh! In not anticipating and helping me through typical development tangles, I found the book an expensive, boring, barely helpful description of the Joomla admin tools. Save some money -- there are much better helps available free by searching Google.
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