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Joomla! 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs

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Joomla! 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs

Overview of this book

Setting up a basic Joomla! Web site is easy; what comes next is hard and expensive ñ making the site do exactly what and look exactly how you want. With this book in hand, it is easy to adapt your site to bring your vision fully to life. This book will help you to separate your site from the crowd of other Joomla! sites without having to invest in developers. It will guide you through how to customize different parts and aspects of your site and will also show you how to turn your site into a profitable business via these customizations. You will be able to build a successful, professional web site that will adapt to all your business needs. You will be taken beyond the basics of Joomla!, and given an insight into the techniques and tools used by the professionals to rapidly develop unique, custom sites. This will enable you to develop your own professional-quality Joomla! site without assistance, saving you time and money. You will learn how modules, plugins, components, and templates are constructed, and how to make changes in them, giving you the confidence to make more elaborate changes to your site. On top of this will be a look at common problems Joomla! site developers face and how best to deal with them. You will also learn techniques for building a business with Joomla!, as you step through building a subscription-based web business. Towards the end, you will look at marketing and monetizing this business fully to maximize your return.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5x Customization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Types of tools


There are many, many great tools out there for developers, but most developers will usually have at least one tool from each of the following seven categories:

  • A file transfer application

  • A program code editor

  • An image editor

  • Several web browsers

  • A database management tool

  • A source code repository to store code

  • A local web server

File transfers

File transfer applications are essential, because web site developers will always need to be able to copy files over the Internet and up to their server, whether it's program code, images, movies, or any other type of files. Most file transfer applications use a method called File Transfer Protocol( FTP) to send files to and receive files from their site. So the first tools we are going to look at are FTP applications, also called FTP clients.

Tip

Many FTP clients, include the letters FTP, or the word File somewhere in their name, making them usually easy to recognize.

One very popular and free FTP client is FileZilla, available from filezilla...