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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

Choosing extensions from our goals


Once we have our goals worked out, and an understanding of how to search for extensions, it is time to actually start choosing the extensions we will use.

An important thing to consider as we start this process is the difference between Core and Third Party Developer (3PD) extensions.

Core extensions, are those that come with Joomla! by default, such as the content component, web links component, and contacts component. These extensions are developed and maintained by the Joomla! project team itself and generally get updated (if needed) automatically with Joomla! releases. They are mostly broadly aimed extensions that most people will use on a site, such as user management, content management, contacting the site, displaying links to other sites, and so on.

3PD extensions, on the other hand, are those made by people working separately from the Joomla! team. These extensions will generally be updated when the developer makes changes or fixes and are not...