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Learn the new features of Joomla! 1.6 using Packt's new book

Mon, 02 May 2011 05:40:45 +0100

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.6 First Look, a new book, which is a concise guide to everything that�s the latest in Joomla! 1.6. Written by Eric Tiggeler, this book contains ample screenshots and clear explanations of all the new features of Joomla! 1.6 and their usage, whilst covering changes in all aspects of Joomla! including interface, menus, templates, and extensions. Joomla!�is the world�s hottest open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available. Joomla! 1.6 First Look book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed and how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from the existing Joomla! versions. Furthermore, this book starts off by teaching readers the general changes in interface and basic articles, and then progresses to take them through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. Using this book, developers will learn the various changes in Joomla! 1.6 that affect the day to day routine of organizing, adding and editing articles. Additionally, this book will assist developers to understand the new extensions overhauled in Joomla! 1.6 and the new SEO features to enhance their site's SEO, and to access Control Levels relevant to website administrators in need of fine grained user permissions control. Packed with step-by-step instructions and illustrative screenshots, this book is ideal for existing Joomla! users, developers and designers, who wish to know about everything that's new in Joomla! 1.6. The book is out now and available from Packt.

Build dynamic, interactive Joomla! websites using Packt's new beginner's guide

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:07:58 +0100

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide, a new book that will help newbies to get started with Joomla! and quickly go beyond the basics. Written by Eric Tiggeler, an experienced Joomla! tutorial writer as well as the author of a Dutch Joomla! Manual, this beginner's guide will help readers build and maintain impressive user-friendly websites with Joomla! 1.5. Joomla! is an award-winning open-source Content Management System, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It is written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available. Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide is a practical book that gives readers a head start in using Joomla! 1.5. Readers will learn to build dynamic, interactive websites that are easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also explains how attractive home pages can be designed with clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks. Through this book, readers will learn to make full use of templates to make their website look attractive by tweaking the CSS, customizing templates and using custom logos, fonts, and colors. It will also help developers engage website visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments. In addition to this, the book will teach users to increase their site's visibility on search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Developers who wish to build and maintain their website using Joomla! 1.5 as well as newbie�s to the subject will find this book a beneficial and interesting read. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-beginners-guide/book

A new book on Joomla and Multimedia

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:48:28 +0100

If you want to display more than just text on your Joomla! website, this book is a must-read. It takes you beyond the basics of Joomla! and helps to take full advantage of its powerful structure. You will learn to use core Joomla! features and combine them with powerful Joomla! multimedia extensions, to deliver media-rich web content to your site users. You will also learn how your Joomla! site can interact and present web content from external resources such as YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Google. A tutorial approach ensures that you can follow this book chapter by chapter or just dip into the topics you find of interest.

Implement Solutions for Regular Joomla! 1.5 Programming Design Problems

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:52:55 +0100

Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook is a new book from Packt that helps developers to implement simple but incredibly useful solutions for common Joomla! 1.5 programming design problems. Written by James Kennard, this is a hands-on solutions book that takes a practical approach to recipes by providing code samples, which can be extracted easily. It will help developers to swiftly extend the Joomla! core functionality to create new and exciting extensions. Joomla! is the world�s hottest open source award-winning content management system platform, written in PHP, that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available. Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook provides step-by-step mini examples to show how to overcome common design and implementation hurdles when creating Joomla! extensions. It can be used by both, professional as well as novice Joomla! developers. The Recipes contained within the book will introduce readers to specific problems and provide hands-on explanations. It also provides solutions for core design topics including security, data access, users and sessions. With this book, users will learn to make extensions extensible and add extensions points, which will allow third parties to customize their extensions and create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities. They will discover beyond building HTML pages and will learn to create PDF documents, Atom Feeds and RSS feeds to improve user experience by adding Ajax and keeping them up-to-date. Additionally, they will be able to take control of their workflows by using JoomlaCode.org to manage their Joomla! projects. A practical guide packed with plenty of code samples, and tips and tricks, this book is ideal for PHP developers who have experience of developing for Joomla! and wish to solve common Joomla! 1.5 programming problems quickly. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-development-cookbook/book

Create professional-quality Joomla! templates with this easy-to-use guide

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:22:23 +0100

Joomla 1.5 Template Development is a new book from Packt which provides users with everything they need to create unique a Joomla! 1.5 template. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, It guides users through setting up a basic work flow for Joomla! template design, debugging and validating the template code, creating drop-down menus and dynamic forms for your site, and packaging up your finished template in a ZIP file for users. After reading this book users will be able to create a template that is effective, flexible, and presents a new look for the pre-existing content. For more information visit: http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-template-design-2nd-edition/book

Comprehensive Manual for Moodle Administrator

Mon, 25 May 2009 01:09:58 +0100

This extract will help you learn how to manage roles and grant permissions to users in different contexts. We will cover the assignment of roles, the modification of existing roles and the creation of new roles before we deal with any role-related settings. You would learn what roles are and how they are applied in different contexts. We then cover the modification of existing roles before creating our own custom roles, such as Parent, Inspector, or Librarian. Finally, we look at the management of administrative role-related settings. Getting your head around the roles concept in Moodle is vital if you wish to add/remove functionality for a distinct group of users. As always, there is a trade-off between the complexity of such a system and its flexibility. While you can argue about the user-friendliness of the roles system, it has certainly proven to be one of the most powerful additions to Moodle when it was introduced back in version 1.7. The interconnection among courses, users, and roles is crucial. Once this has been set up and configured properly, your Moodle is technically ready to go.

Build Your Own Website with New Book on Joomla 1.5

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:11:32 +0100

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 is a new book from Packt which is written as a practical step-by-step guide to building a website from scratch. Written by Hagen Graf, this book takes the reader through the tasks essential to create a Joomla! website as rapidly as possible. Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and is a cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable. While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications; it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included. This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors, and marketing professionals who want to develop a website in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive website. The necessary tasks are explained with clear step-by-step instructions. The author�s chatty and engaging style makes this book very readable. For more details on the book, please visit http://www.PacktPub.com/joomla-version-1-5/book

Start a Cash-Generating Joomla! Website

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:01:59 +0100

Joomla! Cash is a new book from Packt, which has all the ingredients to make money making Joomla! websites. Written by Brandon Dawson and Tom Canavan, this book is a fast and easy read, taking the reader from the inception of an idea, to a fully working cash-generating website built on Joomla! Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that helps users build websites and other powerful online applications. It is an open-source solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. The emphasis of this book is towards business and online e-commerce; it will give readers a valuable knowledge base on search engines, layout and design, implementing a shopping cart, marketing their website, affiliate marketing and more. Readers will appreciate the concise and straightforward method to set up a cash-generating website. This book is suitable for business people with a medium level of technical skill who need a good primer on how to implement a cash-generating website. Those unfamiliar with Joomla! would benefit from reading Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1.

Learn to Create Accessible Websites with Joomla

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:04:53 +0100

Joomla! Accessibility is a new book from Packt that helps readers create accessible websites with Joomla! Written by Joshue O Connor, Senior Accessibility Consultant with CFIT, this book is designed to help readers gain a deeper understanding of Joomla! and accessibility. Understanding how to create accessible websites is an essential skill these days. Website developers may even be obliged by law to create sites that are usable by the widest audience, including people with a range of disabilities. It is very difficult to successfully design interfaces that cover the needs of people with disabilities. This book will show users how to understand some of the various needs of people with disabilities and the technology they use to interact with computers and the Web. This book looks at what accessibility is and the various reasons, such as legislative or legal, as to why developers really need to understand accessibility and then create websites that can be used by everyone. This book therefore examines the diverse range of user requirements that need to be considered for humans to successfully use web technologies. This is a practical book that contains many step-by-step examples for readers to get their teeth into. Primarily, the book is designed to help the reader gain a deeper understanding of Joomla! and accessibility, but it can also be read as an introduction to assistive technology, disability, and the diversity of user requirements. The book also attempts to de-mystify accessibility and take it off the theoretical platform and firmly root it in the real world with tangible benefits for users of Joomla! This book is a guide to any Joomla! User who wants to make their sites more accessible and the author does assume that readers have a basic working knowledge of Joomla! Readers don�t need to know anything about accessibility. While some design skills and technical knowledge of HTML, CSS and PHP will be very useful, readers will still benefit from reading this book if they wish to understand more about assistive technology and the needs of people with disabilities.

Joomla - A User's Guide is almost published!

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:46:45 +0100

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 book to Joomla for every site manager, administrator, and developer. This site is the companion site for this new book about Joomla 1.5 published by Prentice Hall. This site is an important part of the book, an experiment in print and web publishing! www.joomlabook.com features: * five fully functional Joomla 1.5 sites with live follow-along examples from the book * up-to-date information on Joomla 1.5 based on the book, revisions and Joomla changes * a forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book * downloads of free sample chapters and files for Joomla 1.5