Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development

Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development
Wrox | 2009-04-06 | ISBN: 0470438533 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB

By programmers for programmers-the essential beginner's guide to building websites with Joomla!

Want to build and maintain dynamic websites without having to learn HTML and CSS? Joomla! open-source web content management system and this beginner's guide are all you need. This book walks you step-by-step through the process of building a website with Joomla!, providing detailed instruction in Wrox's practical, programmer-to- programmer style.

The book explores key concepts and shows how each concept relates to the development of an actual real-world web site you can access online.

* Joomla! is an open-source web content management system used to build and maintain dynamic web sites without using specific web languages like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
* Walks you step by step through the process of building a website with Jooma! and features plenty of examples of actual websites that illustrate concepts
* Topics include configuration; managing content, core modules, plugins, menus, and extensions; building custom templates; and performing troubleshooting; also provides advanced tips and tricks, and more

From configuration and management to troubleshooting and advanced tips, this is the book to get you up and running with Joomla!

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Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site

Jen Kramer, "Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site"
Wrox | 2010 | ISBN: 047057089X | 360 pages | PDF | 11,1 MB

Everything you need to know to plan and maintain a Joomla! site

Joomla! offers powerful functionality and ease of configuration, making it an immensely popular open source content managementsystem. However, far more than simply downloading and installing Joomla! is required in order to create a dynamic web site. This book walks you through the critical steps that must be taken in the planning process prior to establishing a Joomla! site. Joomla! expert Jen Kramer reviews essential questions that need to be asked of a client, discusses technical solutions to a variety of challenges, and explains how a site structure should be organized. Once the groundwork has been laid, you'll discover how to host and install Joomla!, and upgrade and maintain your Joomla! site.

Joomla! Start to Finish:

Sheds light on downloading and installing Joomla!, creating a site map, and tracking content and images

Details how to perform backups with JoomlaPack

Examines the modules, components, and plugins that come with Joomla!

Delves into Joomla!'s default template and how to download a template from another site

Introduces the Joomla! Extensions Directory and explains how to use it

Describes creating customized templates from the ground up, including advanced styling tricks with CSS

Expounds site maintenance and the importance of backups

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia
Packt Publishing | 2010-02-17 | ISBN: 1847197701 | 376 pages | PDF | 19 MB

Build media-rich Joomla! web sites by learning to embed and display Multimedia content Build a livelier Joomla! site by adding videos, audios, images and more to your web content Install, configure, and use popular Multimedia Extensions Make your web site collaborate with external resources such as Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Flickr with the help of Joomla! extensions Follow a step-by-step tutorial to create a feature-packed media-rich Joomla! site

In Detail

Joomla! is a content management system designed to organize and deliver content within a web site environment. Multimedia provides us with stunning interactive user experiences and wonderful design options, but it requires discipline and knowledge to utilize it effectively so that we do not alienate our audiences. If you want to display more than just text on your Joomla! pages, this book has been designed for you and is a must-read. It takes you beyond the basics of Joomla! and helps to take full advantage this powerful CMS structure to deliver media-rich web content to your site users.

This book provides detailed information and all the required know-how for Joomla! administrators to create engaging media-rich Joomla! web sites. Utilizing core Joomla! features and the power of Joomla! Extensions, this step-by-step guide will show you how to include popular media elements into your web site and collaborate with external web resources.

You will learn everything you need to know to present text, images, video, and audio in your content both by manually embedding content and using more automated methods. You will learn to create regular podcasts and utilize RSS to help publicize and deliver your site content.

Learn about the popular Multimedia Extensions for Joomla! Learn how they benefit your CMS with additional features and how they are installed and configured. Utilize the abundance of external resources now available on the Web. Learn how your Joomla! site can interact and present web content from external resources such as YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Google.

This book teaches all you need to know to take your standard Joomla! CMS and turn it into a feature packed and media-rich web site. It highlights the benefits of Multimedia features and warns of the accessibility issues that can arise when they are misused. Follow step-by-step tutorials for implementing popular media elements into your site and learn about the accessibility of these resources and how to utilize them effectively with accessibility in mind.

What you will learn from this book

* Manage your Joomla! Multimedia elements using FTP and the Media Manager
* Learn the effects of fonts, characters, and text and how these elements can affect your web site
* Add and manage image content to make the best impact for your site visitors
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* Enhance your web site by using video content effectively
* Manage all types of audio content including creating and managing Podcasts
* Collaborate with external resources such as Youtube, Flickr, Twitter, and Google
* Learn how Joomla! templates and scripts can enhance your visitors' experience

Approach

This book is a Joomla! tutorial packed with features that you can apply to enhance your Joomla! web site. It contains step-by-step instructions for Joomla! users to build rich multimedia web sites using Joomla!. It shows you how to manually implement features into your site, as well as utilize Extensions and more automated methods. A tutorial approach means you can follow this book chapter by chapter or just dip into the topics you find of interest.

Who this book is written for

This book is aimed at Joomla! administrators and site developers who want to add media-rich content elements and interactive features to their site. All you need is to have a basic knowledge of the Joomla! platform and want to develop your site with rich media content.

This book is a must-read for Joomla! users wanting to collaborate with external resources such as YouTube, Twitter, Google, and Flickr (amongst others).

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Joomla! Bible

Ric Shreves, "Joomla! Bible"
Wiley | 2010 | ISBN: 0470509570 | 792 pages | PDF | 15,3 MB

Comprehensive guide to creating Web sites with the open-source Joomla!1.5

Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) for Web sites. While it is free and relatively easy to use, there are lots of tricks and functionality that may not be intuitive to new users or those switching from other systems. And the previous version is quite different from the new Joomla 1.5, for which documentation is sparse. Joomla! Bible is the complete, step-by-step guide you need to build and manage Web sites using the very newest version of this powerful and popular CMS.
Walks you through obtaining the Joomla! 1.5 code and how to deploy it to a server, configure the site, create content, and manage content and user hierarchies
Helps you get the most out of core modules that pre advanced functionality, including the Polls Module, the Banner Manager, the Media Manager, Galleries, Weblinks, Content Syndication, and Newsfeed Aggregation
Vaults you into the world of Web 2.0 with extensive coverage of JomSocial, and shows you how to set up for e-commmerce with VirtueMart

Get the most out of Joomla! 1.5 with this complete guide guide.

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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
384 pages | Packt Publishing (March 28, 2008) | Lan: English | ISBN: 184719530X | PDF | 15.4 Mb

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Beginning Joomla! From Novice to Professional

Dan Rahmel "Beginning Joomla! From Novice to Professional"
Apress | ISBN: 1590598482 | 2007 | 494 pages | PDF | 18 MB

Do you want the ability to manage documents, photos, and other content over the Web but dont want to shell out thousands of dollars in proprietary solutions? Want to create an online community for your hobby or user group? Youre not alone. For thousands of like-minded around the globe, the answer is Joomla!, an open source content management system used to manage all sorts of data over the Web.

While Joomla! is relatively easy to install, a fair amount of knowledge is required in order to configure the application to your specific needs. Beginning Joomla! answers many of the questions youre sure to have, guiding you through the process of creating your own design templates, adding and managing content, and adding popular community features such as article commenting, user profile management, and forums. Later chapters discuss e-commerce integration, explore search engine optimization, and show you how to extend Joomla! by creating your own plug-ins.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Joomla! .
CHAPTER 2 Quickstart: Setting Up a Joomla! Site in 20 Minutes
CHAPTER 3 Installation and Configuration .
CHAPTER 4 Adding Content .
CHAPTER 5 Administering Joomla!
CHAPTER 6 Creating Your Own Templates.
CHAPTER 7 Joomla! Extensions .
CHAPTER 8 Web Community Features. .
CHAPTER 9 Site Statistics .
CHAPTER 10 Photo Gallery .
CHAPTER 11 Joomla! E-commerce .
CHAPTER 12 Search Engine Optimization and Joomla! .
CHAPTER 13 Creating Extensions

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Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by Barrie M. North

Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by Barrie M. North
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR | Number Of Pages: 480 | Publication Date: 2007-12-21 | ISBN-10: 0136135609 | CHM | 48 Mb

If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla!-the world’s #1 open source content management system. 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 never-before-published 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! 1.0 and 1.5 reference content.


· Understanding content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together
· Building Joomla! sites from scratch, and systematically customizing them to your needs
· Organizing content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables
· Creating dynamic pages and effective navigation
· Working with Joomla! modules and components
· Search engine optimization for Joomla! sites
· Start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, an e-commerce site, and a blog
· The most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: finding them, and using them
· Key differences between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5, and what they mean to you

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Joomla! For Dummies

Joomla! For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies | Date: 2009-01-14 | ISBN: 047043287X | PDF | 9.08MB | 364 pages

With its pre-coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies.
Learn to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, let your guests sign up for e-mail lists, and much more. Joomla! For Dummies helps you to:

Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page
See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout
Use templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them to Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modules Build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic
Explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them Check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do Find modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more
Joomla! lets you concentrate on content instead of struggling with code. So grab Joomla! For Dummies and start creating!

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Joomla! The Beauty In Design and beautifull template 7 CD AIO

Tutorial Videos of :

•VOl A Joomla! for Beginners
•VOl B Building a CSS Template for JOOMLA
•VOl C Increasing User Experience with Javascript
•VOl D Joomla Optimization
•VOl E Template Migration for Joomla Tutorial Series
•VOl F MooTools for the Rest of Us
•VOl G Remaining Collection BEAUTY IN DESIGN
COURSES OUTLINE :


A. Joomla! for Beginners

01. Introduction
02. Downloading Joomla!
03. Creating your Database
04. Uploading Joomla! to your site
05. Installing and Configuring Joomla!
06. A Walk around the Front End
07. It's all about Content
08. The Back End - Administrator
09. Creating Sections
10. Creating Categories
11. Creating Content Items
12. Linking to Menus
13. Installing Templates
14. Worked Example - An online shop
15. Worked Example - A membership site
16. Worked Example - A magazine
17. Support and Conclusion

B. Building a CSS Template for JOOMLA

1. Lesson One – Slicing a Photoshop Image
• Planning the Layout
• Slicing Images
• Naming Slices
• Saving for the Web

2. Lesson Two – Creating the Foundation
• Files and Folders
• Linking the CSS into the PHP Document
• Getting Setup in Style Master
• Creating the DIV tags

3. Lesson Three – CSS Layout I
• Styling the Body
• Styling the Container
• Styling the Header

4. Lesson Four – CSS Layout II
• Styling the content DIV
• Working through browser bugs

5. Lesson Five – Finishing up and JOOMLA Integration
• Install JOOMLA Plug-in from
• Placing the Header Code
• Placing the Content Code
• Prepare the XML file
• Zip and Upload

C. Increasing User Experience with Javascript

1. Introduction
• Overview of the series
• Showcasing the javascript effects

2. Lesson Two - De-Cluttering the Membership Page
• Attaching scripts
• Considering MooTools as a solution to a cluttered layout
• Using the Fx.Styles of Mootools to change element properties

3. Lesson Three - Using MooTabs to Condense Related Products
• Understanding how MooTabs works
• Implementing MooTabs to condense the related products of a shopping cart

4. Lesson Four - Using a MooTools 'Light Box' to Create a Friendly Gallery
• Understanding the problem with the existing gallery
• Fixing the gallery with the MooTools Light Box

5. Lesson Five - Using Fx.Styles to Control Font Size
• Selecting an area to change
• Implementing Fx.Styles to change fonts

6. Lesson Six - Creating a Sliding Sub Menu with MooTools
• Analyzing the main menu and sub-menu for implementation
• Implement some simple MooTools effects to reveal sub-links

7. Lesson Seven - Implementing Reflection Javascript for Images
• Downloading and using reflection.js for images

8. Lesson Eight - Creating a Sliding Image Menu
• Understanding how the Sliding Image Menu works
• Implementing the Sliding Image Menu

9. Lesson Nine - Using AJAX with the Sliding Image Menu
• Creating an updated area for changing content
• Implementing AJAX links with the Sliding Image Menu

D. Joomla Optimization

1. Lesson One - Validation
•CSS Validation
•XHTML Validation
•Correcting incorrect markup

2. Lesson Two - Improving Module Output
•Different types of module output options
•Optimizing the template (continued from the JOOMLA Template Series)

3. Lesson Three - Improving JOOMLA Accessibility
•Better font usage
•Using CSS compression to better file sizes

4. Lesson Four - Using ARTIO SEF Component
•Getting JOOMLA ready for better URL's
•Around ARTIO

E. Template Migration for Joomla Tutorial Series

1. Lesson One - Introduction and Re-Ordering the File Structure
• Introduction to the Template
• Moving the template files to the correct location for Joomla

2. Lesson Two - Optimizing the Template
• The Dreamweaver extension from Joomlasolutions.com
• Inserting the php tags, header code, and various other code

3. Lesson Three - The Template Details XML File
• How the template_details.xml works
• Assigning files, images, css, etc.

4. Lesson Four - Re-naming and Styling the Main Menu
• Understanding how the Main Menu is styled
• Re-assigning existing menu styles with the Joomla selectors

5. Lesson Five - Migrating Styles for Use with Modules
• Latest news module changes
• Main menu module stylings in other positions

6. Lesson Six - Custom Module Styling Using Class Suffixes
• Styling the Newsflash module similar to the static template
Using class suffixes in Joomla

7. Lesson Seven - Styling Various Joomla Elements
• Style matching the titles, paragraphs, etc. in the template
• News component styling

F. MooTools for the Rest of Us

1. Lesson One - Ideas and Resources
• The Purpose and Format of this series
• Where to get ideas from/documentation
• Getting MooTools

2. Lesson Two - Setting up the Document
• Javascript insertion
• Testing out an effect

3. Lesson Three - Creating a "Drag & Resize"-able Window
• Finding ideas
• Implementing an idea
• Duplicating several windows

4. Lesson Four - Opacity Fades for various windows
• Recognizing windows to fade
• Implementing the code
• Custom Options

5. Lesson Five - Using Moo.Ajax for the JoomlaOS Template
• Some benefits
• Creating an Ajax link for the JoomlaOS Template

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