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Joomla! 1.6: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 3rd Edition
- By Barrie M. North
- Published Feb 11, 2011 by Prentice Hall.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 416
- Edition: 3rd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-248706-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-248706-1
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Product Author Bios
Barrie North first tasted the internet in 1988 and has been an avid user ever since. A former teacher then IT education consultant, he became steadily more involved in web technology, teaching web design to students and technology integration to teachers.
A serial entrepreneur, in 2005, he cofounded Joomlashack.com which grew to become one of the world's biggest providers of templates and online training for Joomla. In 2008, he founded Simplweb.com which provides fully managed Joomla-powered websites and training to those who want a Joomla website but don't have the time to manage the code. He also maintains a blog at compassdesigns.net for all things web and Joomla.
A prolific writer of free tutorials on Joomla and a frequent speaker at Joomla events, his combination of Joomla expertise, educational skills, real-world application experience, and engaging writing has produced books accessible to everyone.
Praise for Previous Edition of Joomla!: A User’s Guide
“A complete guide to the powerful features of Joomla! 1.5, this book takes a holistic approach to building a Joomla!-powered website–from the CMS itself to its many extensions, search engine optimization, and even building your own tableless template. The novice reader is eased into the subject and confidently guided through the basic principles and on to the more advanced features. This guide empowers the user not only to build a professional website but to also to make it a success.”
–Russell Walker, CEO, Netshine Software Limited (Joomla! Development Consultancy)
“If you’ve been using or following Joomla! in the past years, you’ve most likely seen the name Barrie North or Joomlashack. Barrie has been a member of the community for a long time and, as such, my expectations for this book were pretty high. Besides explaining how Joomla! works from a usability point of view, there is valuable information for people who want to learn serious template building, and readers can stand out of the crowd by using Barrie’s steps to make their (X)HTML and CSS optimized for accessibility and SEO. All in all, this book is a great guide that comes at the right time for newcomers and more experienced Joomla! users and developers alike. Well done, Barrie!”
–Arno Zijlstra, Joomla! cofounder, custom template specialist, www.alvaana.com
“In a time when solid, real-life Joomla! 1.5 information is rarely available, this book is a thirst-quenching oasis of knowledge. The abundant and clear examples in the book make Joomla! 1.5 websites within anyone’s reach. I heartily recommend Joomla! 1.5: A User’s Guide by Barrie North.”
–Tom Canavan, author of Dodging the Bullets: A Disaster Preparation Guide for Joomla! Based Web Sites
“Refreshing! After reading many how-to books, this one is a step beyond the rest because of its focus on examples based on live sites. This book is well crafted for beginners to advanced users with a well-organized overview that walks you through the entire Joomla! CMS.”
–Steven Pignataro, corePHP, www.corephp.com
“As a long-time Joomla! end-user and developer, I had low expectations for anything new I might learn from this book. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find it a great refresher course, especially since the book is logically organized, leading beginners from the most basic Joomla! concepts and continuing through to more complex ones, such as tableless template design and how to write a template for Joomla! 1.5. In summary, Barrie North has produced the gold-standard print reference for Joomla! 1.5. I highly recommend this book for novice and intermediate users if you want to make the most of Joomla!”
–Vicor Drover, http://dev.anything-digital.com
The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!™−The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System
If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.
New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts, and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla 1.6 reference content.
• Understand content management, what Joomla does, and how its components fit together
• Build Joomla sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
• Create modern, pure CSS Joomla 1.6 templates using popular grid frameworks
• Use Joomla 1.6’s nested categories to organize content and articles
• Create dynamic pages and effective navigation
• Work with Joomla modules and components
• Learn how to optimize your Joomla sites for search engines
• Follow three start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, a small business site, and a blog
• Identify the most valuable Joomla extensions and add-ons: find them and use them
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
First and Best Joomla! 1.6 Book Available, By Huge Boz Fan (Tampa, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joomla! 1.6: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
I appreciate that Mr. North published a Joomla! 1.6 book so soon after the release of Joomla! 1.6. (I bought the Kindle edition.)But what's best is that it is a very well written and practical guide to building a web site with Joomla! 1.6. It's exactly what I was looking for. Barrie North writes in a very linear style, which is what I like in a technical book. Obviously, Mr. North took his Joomla1! 1.5 book and updated it for 1.6. As a result there are a few (but not too many) places where 1.5 references remain. For example, the word "section" is used in places where it no longer applies. When Mr. North makes these corrections, it would be nice to have a free update for the Kindle version. :-)
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Joomla! 1.6: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
Because Joomla v1.6 was released only two months (January 2011) prior to the publishing of "Joomla! 1.6: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (3rd Edition)" with no user documentation, I was hoping Barrie M. North's release would shed some light on the open source website builder nuances. There is very little light shed on the new Joomla v1.6 interface in North's book, which is disappointing considering the price point. The Joomla v1.6 user interface has changed dramatically since the previous v1.5 release, and although there are references to the new Jom version throughout the book, many important details are missing or are left with mere dangling references to its details.If you are hoping to learn how Joomla v1.6's nuances work, this may not be the reference guide you are seeking. However, if you are new to Joomla's "open source" web builders, North's book will give you a better understanding of CCS and SEO techniques that may create a website... Read more
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This review is from: Joomla! 1.6: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
First of all, I'm a beginner and maybe i shouldn't of tried to learn v1.6 so soon but i also think as well as other people is that it came out too prematurely. I'm lost a lot of the time. The screen shots in the book are different than v1.6, and there's missing information because i'm finding myself figuring out stuff on my own and i hate how he says that he's not going to get into detail about a subject becuase you can find it in Joomla help which YOU CAN'T because help for Joomla 1.6 is not available yet so it would have been helpful if he DID include such information. I want to return the book and either build a website with v1.5 or wait until there's a real Joomla v1.6 out. I'm sure it is fine for non beginners but not me. Too much information to be guessed.
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Table of Contents
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Author xxvi
Chapter 1: Content Management Systems and an Introduction to Joomla! 1
What Is a Content Management System? 2
Static Web Pages 2
Web Pages with CSS 3
Dynamic Web Pages 4
Open Source Software 7
History of Joomla! 8
The Joomla! Community 9
Third-Party Extensions Development 9
Joomla!’s Features 9
Elements of a Joomla! Website 11
Content 11
Templates 13
Modules 14
Summary 14
Chapter 2: Downloading and Installing Joomla! 17
How to Install Joomla! 18
Obtaining the Latest Joomla! File Package 18
Joomla! Package Naming Conventions 20
Creating a MySQL Database 21
Unpacking the Joomla! Package 21
Unpacking Joomla! on a Local Desktop Computer 21
Unpacking Joomla! on a Hosting Account 25
Running the Joomla! Installation Wizard 26
Getting to the Joomla! Installer 26
Step 1: Language 26
Step 2: Pre-Installation Check 27
Step 3: License 28
Step 4: Database Configuration 29
Step 5: FTP Configuration 30
Step 6: Main Configuration 30
Step 7: Finish 33
Summary 34
Chapter 3: Joomla! Administration Basics 35
What Are the Frontend and Backend of a Joomla!-Powered Website? 36
The Menu Bar 38
The Toolbar 38
The Workspace 40
Administrator Functions in the Menu Bar 40
The Site Submenu 41
Users Menu 45
The Menus Menu 48
The Content Menu 49
The Components Submenu 53
The Extensions Menu 54
The Help Menu 58
View Site 59
Summary 60
Chapter 4: Content Is King: Organizing Your Content 63
How Does Joomla! Generate Web Pages? 64
How Joomla! Organizes Content Articles 66
Uncategorized Articles 67
Categories 67
A Sample Hierarchy 69
Creating the Widget Inc. Website with Uncategorized Content 70
Creating Content Articles 72
Creating Menu Items 75
The Featured Article Component 80
Creating the Widget Inc. Website with Categories 85
Creating Categories 86
Creating Content Article 86
Creating Menu Items 90
Linking to Components 92
“Read More” Links and Individual Pages 95
Module Content 97
Summary 100
Chapter 5: Creating Menus and Navigation 103
How Menu Modules Work 104
What Menu Items Do 105
Creating a Menu Item 106
Where Does a Menu Item Link? 107
What Does a Page Look Like After a Link Is Followed? 108
Blog Layout 109
Blog Layout Parameters 110
List Layout for a Blog 114
Category List Advanced Options 114
Managing Menu Modules in the Module Manager . 116
Show Title 116
Position 118
Access 118
Menu and Module Class Suffixes (Advanced Options) 118
Menu Assignment 118
Summary 119
Chapter 6: Extending Joomla! 121
Extensions 122
Installing Extensions 123
Managing Extensions 125
Components 126
Core Component 127
Third-Party Components 128
Modules 128
Module Display 128
Core Modules 130
Third-Party Modules 132
Plug-ins 133
Core Plug-ins 133
Third-Party Plug-ins 134
Templates 134
Core Templates 134
Third-Party Templates 134
Summary 135
Chapter 7: Expanding Your Content: Articles and Editors 137
WYSIWYG Editors 138
Managing WYSIWYG Editors 139
Other Third-Party Editors 142
Creating and Managing Articles 143
Managing Content Through the Backend 144
Adding Content from the Backend 146
Inserting Images into Content 153
Category Descriptions 156
Managing Content Through the Frontend 159
Creating a Frontend User Menu 159
Limiting Access to Menus by User Level 163
Authors 165
Editors 167
Publishers 169
Article Checkin
Summary 171
Chapter 8: Getting Traffic to Your Site 175
Start at the Beginning: Site Goals 176
Organic Traffic (SEO) 177
Introduction to Google 180
Creating Keywords 181
Keywords and Domain Name 184
Designing Your Site for Organic Traffic 184
Advanced SEO Techniques 192
Referral Traffic 196
Google PageRank 196
Other Link-Building Strategies 198
Internal Linking 199
Pay Per Click Traffic 202
How Google AdWords Works 203
Joomla! and AdWords 205
Email Traffic 207
Third-Party Hosted Email Solutions 209
Joomla! SEF Extensions 210
Quick Start SEO for Joomla! 210
Summary 210
Chapter 9: Creating Pure CSS Templates 213
What Is a Joomla! Template? 214
The Localhost Design Process 216
Localhost Server Options 217
W3C and Tableless Design 218
Semantically Correct Code 219
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 220
Creating a Simple Template: 960TemplateTutorialStep1 220
Template File Components 221
The Joomla! Page Body 231
Using CSS to Create a Tableless Layout: CSSTemplateTutorialStep2 234
Default CSS 239
Modules in Templates 241
Menus in Templates 246
Hiding Columns 250
Making a Real Joomla! 1.6 Template: 960TemplateTutorialStep3 256
Slicing and Dicing 256
Header 257
The Banner/Message Module 257
Column Backgrounds 258
Flexible Modules 260
Typography 261
Summary 263
Chapter 10: Creating a School Site with Joomla! 265
Why Do You Need a School Website? 266
Students 266
Teachers and Administrators 267
Parents 267
Potential Students and Their Parents 267
What Features Do You Need on a School Site? 268
Downloading and Installing a School Template 268
Fresh Template Features and Positions 270
Configuring a Logo 271
Configuring the Search Box 271
Configuring the Main Horizontal Drop-Down Menu 272
Organizing Content on a School Website 274
Creating the Menus 279
Building Out Content 283
Creating Subnavigation 284
The Academics Submenu 285
Creating News Links for a Section 287
Setting Up the Footer Area 289
Setting Up the Home Page 291
Adding Basic Functionality to a School Website 293
User Registration 293
Events Calendar 295
Downloadable Documents 295
Staff Directory 295
Email Newsletter 296
RSS 297
Random Image
Sitemap 298
Extending the School Website Beyond the Basics 298
Summary 300
Chapter 11: Creating a Restaurant Site with Joomla! 301
Why Does a Restaurant Need a Website? 302
What Features Does a Restaurant Website Need? 302
Downloading and Installing a Restaurant Template 304
Organizing the Content on a Restaurant Website 306
Building Content Articles with Lorem Ipsum 309
Setting Up the Home Page 310
Home Page Alternative to the Featured Article Manager 310
Creating Menus 311
Creating Footer Content 316
Creating Module Teaser Blocks 317
Using Stock Imagery 319
Extending a Restaurant Website 321
Image Gallery: JPG Flash Rotator 2 322
Email Marketing 323
Google Maps 323
Summary 323
Chapter 12: Creating a Blog with Joomla! 325
What Is a Blog? 326
Why Have a Blog? 327
What Options Are There for Blogging? 327
What Features Are Needed on a Blog Site? 328
Downloading and Installing a Blog Template 330
Optimus Template Features and Positions 331
Configuring the Logo 332
Configuring the Main Horizontal Drop-Down Menu 334
Organizing Content on a Blog 335
Organizing a Blog Within a Larger Site 335
Organizing a Standalone Blog 336
About Tagging 338
Creating the Menus 338
Adding Dynamic Modules 342
Adding Static Modules 345
Adding Basic Functionality to a Blog 346
Flexible Layout 346
Browser-Based Editing 347
Automated Publishing 347
Categories 347
Search Engine—Friendly URLs 347
Comment Systems 348
Syndication Feeds 348
Email Notification 350
Search 350
Extending a Blog Website Beyond the Basics 351
Forums 351
E-commerce 352
Summary 353
Appendix A: Getting Help 355
Community Forums 355
Help Sites 356
Getting Help from Google 356
Appendix B: A Guide to Joomla! 1.6 ACL 357
Appendix C: A Quick Introduction to SEO 359
Keyword Use in Title Tag 359
Anchor Text of Inbound Link 359
Global Link Popularity of Site (PageRank) 359
Age of Site 360
Link Popularity Within the Site 360
Topical Relevance of Inbound Links and Popularity of Linking Site 360
Link Popularity of Site in Topic Community 361
Keyword Use in Body Text 361
File Size 361
Clean URL 362
Utilize Your Error Pages 362
What’s Not Here? 362
Appendix D: Installing WampServer 363
Index 371
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