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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

How to plan


When planning our site, there are two main elements that it is essential to start with:

  • a mission statement

  • a list of goals

These elements help us define the direction the site is going and what the key focus of our site is. They will help us keep ourselves on track as we add to the site and pick our extensions and design.

Mission

Our mission statement describes where we are going with our site.

It should be a clear and succinct description of our site's reason for existence. Why does it exist and what hole does it fill? This is what we define here. It should include something measurable and socially meaningful, and cover the broadest perspective of our aspirations for the site.

It can be specific, citing figures or products, or it can be general, emphasizing a broad mission.

Some famous mission statements from real companies:

3M:

To solve unsolved problems innovatively

Mary Kay Cosmetics:

To give unlimited opportunity to women

Merck:

To preserve and improve human life

Wal-Mart:

To give ordinary...