Beginning Joomla!

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Joomla!

   Pages 1-9

3. Quickstart: Setting Up a Joomla! Site in 20 Minutes

   Pages 11-59

4. Installation and Configuration

   Pages 61-107

5. Adding Content

   Pages 109-146

6. Administering Joomla!

   Pages 147-187

7. Creating Your Own Templates

   Pages 189-240

8. Joomla! Extensions

   Pages 241-268

9. Web Community Features

   Pages 269-309

10. Site Statistics

    Pages 311-323

11. Photo Gallery

    Pages 325-354

12. Joomla! E-commerce

    Pages 355-376

13. Search Engine Optimization and Joomla!

    Pages 377-395

14. Creating Extensions

    Pages 397-412

15. Back Matter

    Pages 413-431

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Joomla! is one of the most searched–for and hired–for open source content management systems in the world. Since 2007, the combination of Joomla! and Dan Rahmel's bestselling Beginning Joomla!, From Novice to Professional have made it so that all you have to do is read a single book to learn how to build sites that take community–authored content and turn it instantly into published web pages with features like rich templating, content management, forums, photo management, and article commenting.

Now revised and updated for Joomla! 1.5, this second edition “job–in–a–book” provides the solid core of know–how that you'll need to get the most out of your Joomla! deployment, written to fully exploit the features of latest version of Joomla! More than just a simple “build a toy web site” guide, Beginning Joomla!, Second Edition will give you a wealth of life–saving tips, tricks, tools, and fixes that experienced Joomla! developers use to build powerful, popular web sites while avoiding major headaches. This book covers

• How to use add and create extensions
• Access management and how documents, photos, and other content are managed in Joomla! 1.5
• E–commerce integration and search engine optimization

Dan Rahmel explores the updates to Joomla! 1.5 that you'll need if you already use Joomla! and explains, using the latest terms, how to build a web site from scratch if you don't already use Joomla! An update to the best–selling Joomla! title on the market, this is the Joomla! book to get.

• Content Management
• E-Commerce
• Joomla
• Open Source
• Templates
• content management system
• deployment
• forum
• search engine optimization (SEO)

Dan Rahmel is a Windows programmer with more than 14 years of experience designing and implementing information systems and deploying mid-sized client/server solutions using Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access, and Visual FoxPro. He has written over a dozen books, including Nuts-and-Bolts Filmmaking, Visual Basic Programmer's Reference (first, second, and third editions), Building Web Database Applications with Visual Studio, Teach Yourself Database Programming in 24 Hours, Developing Client-Server Applications with Visual Basic, and many more. His books have been translated into various languages including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. He is a contributor to DBMS, Internet Advisor, and American Programmer magazines.

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