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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

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)
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Joomla! 1.5x Customization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
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Index

Chapter 2. Setting Up Our Environment

When fixing a car, would you use an axe and a chainsaw? When building a house would you do it with a toothbrush and a bottle opener? The answer to both of these questions is an easy no. We all know that you need the right tools for the job, otherwise you risk accidents, the chance that it won't be finished properly, or possibly even finished at all.

It is the same with building a web site. The better the tools, the easier and faster you can work, and the greater the end result will be. So, before we get into building our site, we are going to take a look at some of the available tools and applications for Joomla! developers, and how to use them effectively to improve our performance.

Our goals for this chapter:

  • Learn about the different categories of tools available

  • Look at several tools for our own use, depending on our budget and the type of computer we use—Windows/Mac

  • Become comfortable with the basic usage of some our chosen tools

Before we even start...

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