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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

Developing a 'troubleshooting mentality'


Troubleshooting is very much like baking a cake. You can read the instructions, that is, follow the process and your cake will likely come out of the oven and taste and look great.

You can ignore the instructions and the best case is your cake, may taste ok, but won't look right and the texture will be poor. In other words, you won't reach your goal of having a nice cake to serve.

Troubleshooting Joomla! or any other computer system is a matter of separating the symptoms from the facts of the situation by following a process.

Often at times, when you are troubleshooting an issue, it's easy to accept the symptom as the problem, running off to treat it, rather than discover what caused it.

What I mean by that is, often at times a symptom is just that - a symptom. The root cause is what you are after. Resist the urge to accept the first thing you think is wrong as the final answer and not look further.

In this case, let's create a fantasy situation where...