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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

Essential extensions


Apart from the extensions that we include for our goals, there are also some extensions that we should install into our site. I consider these extensions essential because they provide such strong benefits to a site administrator that leaving them out puts us at a disadvantage, or makes our work harder than it should be.

This list is not complete, nor are these the only extensions that could be considered essential, but they are general enough that most people will want most or all of them on their sites.

The extensions are described in the sections that follow.

NinjaXplorer

NinjaXplorer (http://ninjaforge.com) gives us a stable and useful file management system within our Joomla! administrator interface. It is especially useful for uploading small groups of files, and serves as an alternative to FTP.

We can also make edits to files, allowing us to make small changes to files without having to download, edit, and upload them again. It is also possible to change the file...