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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

Monetization implementations


There is a potentially unlimited number of ways we can implement the above models, and our options are really only limited our imagination. The main point to keep in mind is that we need to provide a certain level of value to people, enough value to make it worth paying for. This value could be a real, measurable value, such as in the case of a physical product or a perceived, emotional value such as higher status in a social network.

There are some common methods of implementation though that are worth looking at. Both of these are very compatible with a free economy, as the primary product is mostly provided for free.

Freemium

A freemium is where a portion of a service or part of an information product is given away for free to entice people to try it out, and then once they are interested in the service/product they are up sold to the complete service.

This is a very common method in use by many web services today because of its effectiveness. A higher percentage...