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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.
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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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 a jump start of creating templates for Joomla.
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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 can really control with my template CSS, etc). Also, the author explained how to make multi-level unordered menu items work (I had previously torn my hair out over wondering why that didn't work in Joomla) -- turns out you need to install a module.
And even beyond Jooma itself, I also picked up quite a bit on how to properly implement web standards and use CSS, which I'd been needing to brush up on. This book has actually helped me with many aspects of my job in general, not just making a Joomla template!
I still don't completely understand why people choose to use Joomla, as I still find the admin interface to be confusing and badly worded, but as long as people use it, they'll need designs for it This book is the only thing out there that makes this possible. I totally recommend it.
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