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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Introduction


Troubleshooting is a simple matter of following a process. In fact, I believe that anyone can learn the basic troubleshooting skills needed for the successful care and feeding of their website.

This short chapter ties together many things that have been covered in this book. Several trouble spots have been covered in the various chapters and now you will gain a methodology to apply those various solutions to your problem. The key topic in this chapter is for you to learn how to troubleshoot your Joomla! installation.

When system trouble occurs, many people panic, freeze, or start turning things on and off with no methodology. In the computer services industry, this is known as "shotgunning" or in other words, throwing every possible solution at it at once.

I've seen situations where someone will ask you to assist, and in the meantime, they ask someone else to as well. What happens is you're both in the website, and do not know it. Talk about a mess!

In this chapter, the first recipe...