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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've covered some Search Engine Optimization techniques that will help in getting your site's contents picked up by search engines.

  • First of all, making sure your site contains valuable and relevant content is the best way to optimize search engine visibility.

  • It's important to use the appropriate heading elements to organize the article text (such as H3, H4, H5, and H6). Another way to tell search engines what your site is about is by adding metadata.

  • Joomla generates Search Engine Friendly URLs: the browser address bar displays readable URLs that match the content of the page.

  • Linking is very important; it's good to link to other sites, it's great if other sites link to your site, and it's also useful to create links within your site. Joomla allows you to automatically create internal hyperlinks: lists of links to popular or recently updated articles.

  • The Redirect Manager in Joomla helps you to direct visitors and search engine spiders from expired URLs to new URLs...