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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

Chapter 3. Planning Our Site

One of the most important steps in building our site is the planning stage. This stage is often poorly executed because:

  • we often want to get right into building our site immediately

  • it starts out as a hobby, or practice site and slowly grows into our business

  • we plan our site based on the extensions we want, rather than basing the extensions we want off the plan for our site

It is, however, vitally important to properly plan our site before we start building it if we ultimately want it to be successful and not simply a domain, a collection of extensions, and a template drifting lost in cyberspace.

If we are hoping to build a real business out of our site, it is especially important to plan it out properly because our site's success and failure translates directly into income or no income.

While we are planning, we are also going to put some thought into how we are going to structure our business income, look at the options available to us, and then choose one or more...