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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

Practical—using our tools


As mentioned above, Firebug is a very important addition to the web developer's toolkit, but it is one that not many people will have used. Most of the other tools are fairly intuitive to use at a basic level, but Firebug needs a slight introduction.

Inspect Element

The first and most important feature of Firebug is the Inspect Element feature. This feature can be accessed by right-clicking on any HTML element on the page and selecting Inspect Element from the context menu.

Let's visit the Packt Publishing homepage (http://www.packtpub.com) and try it out.

When we click the Inspect Element menu item, a new area should appear at the bottom of our page the looks like the next screenshot. The area that appears will usually be broken into two panes, our HTML structure on the left, and CSS information on the right. The item we selected with our right-click will be highlighted in blue, and the CSS styles applied to it will appear in the right pane.

Some of the CSS styles...