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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using a template framework as a base for your own template


Instead of downloading a ready-made template or creating your own template from the ground up, there's also a third option—using a template framework. A framework is basically a template with a huge amount of built-in options, allowing you to define the layout, module positions, menu styles, colors, fonts and sometimes much more straight away from the template control panel. Although template frameworks come packed with features and give you a great deal of control , they do require you to spend some time getting to know your way around and learning how to customize them (as different framework developers follow their own specific design strategies).

If you are interested in template frameworks for Joomla, this is a good introduction on the subject: 'Using a Joomla Template Framework to Design your Site', http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-oct-2012/item/891-using-a-joomla-template-framework-to-design-your-site. For a comparision...