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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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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 4
EAN: 9780321590589
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0321590589
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: November 21, 2008
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press
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Joomla! is one of the fastest growing Open Source Content Management Systems on the market today and has won multiple awards since it's release in 2005. Currently, Joomla! has the largest 3rd party developer and designer community, with over 160,000 current registered users, over 2,000 templates, and 3,000 extensions. This task-based guide to creating, customizing, and maintaining a dynamic Joomla! 1.5 web site starts with the fundamental concepts and advantages of a Content Management System and then walks the user through setting up a server environment, downloading and installing Joomla!, adding and structuring content, using components, modules, and plugins, and administrating from both the back and front-ends. The book finishes with more advanced topics, including CSS, search engine optimization (SEO), and customizing templates and the Joomla! framework itself. It's the perfect guide to getting started with Joomla or for those users that want to expand their skills.
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I needed this book! I was struggling with Joomla! for a couple of months before I decided to get an instructional book. Joomla! Visual QuickStart Guide did just about everything for me. Not only is the book instructive; but the authors were always ready to answer questions in a more personal way. I am now running as fast as I can with Joomla! thanks to the 'QuickStart' that this book provided. I highly recommend this for anyone who is beginner or beginner/intermediate Joomla! user.
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This book is poorly organized in that it doesn't really address the "big picture." The book is good for looking up individual tasks and getting some explanation of how to make them work--but even then, it doesn't address all the options or explain them thoroughly. That makes it hard to engage in any kind of cohesive learning. I think this would be a good second book on Joomla and would make a good reference book for looking up tasks quickly later on. However, as an introductory text, it is lacking. I can't say I'm sorry I bought it. I'm just kind of sorry I started with it.
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Nothing more than a page-by-page screen shot of every possible Joomla configuration. Just download and install Joomla for free and you can get as much. There are few explanations about how changing each configuration effects the final product and nothing that tells you how to accomplish a particular goal. This book is more frustrating than the software itself.
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This book is the one that finally got me "over the hump" with the Joomla learning curve. I don't know if it's because it was the third or fourth I've read or if it is the best of those I've read, but one thing is for certain: it is written in a clear, understandable style by someone who actually knows how to write for those who know how to read, and thus avoids the clipped, murky, incohate type of writing that characterizes many of those in the software development field. A large part of understanding Joomla is simply mastering the terminology of the backend, and this book aids greatly in that respect.
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Unfortunately this book follows the same route as most other technical books. You get a lot of sentences like "Here's how to create an author details menu", without any conceptual explanation of what an author details menu is, and why I might want one. No explanation of how it will clip in with the rest of my site.
While the step-by-step guidelines for performing various Joomla functions are spelled out reasonably clearly, the book is just so incredibly and sorely lacking in conceptual explanations about what each function is doing. A lot of the time I found myself going through a "here's how to do xyz.." guideline, with no idea what it was doing. I'd just have to wait until I'd completed the final step, and then take a guess at what I'd achieved, based on whatever changes to the website I was able to detect.
One example: Page 17 has a step-by-step guideline on how "To View The Media Manager". Fair enough.. but I just wanted one question answered before I read ... Read More
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