There was quite a lot of reading and thinking in this chapter, but we should now be well on the way to finishing our planning and being prepared to start on our site.
After discussing why it's important to plan, we wrote out our mission statement, decided how we would monetize our site, and then wrote our list of goals. We then turned those goals into extensions, starting with Core extensions and moving out to 3PDs, and then to the essential extensions that every site should have.
During it all we set the mission, monetization model, goals, and extensions for our sample site and it is ready to go!
However, before we get to building our site, we need to take a look at the technologies that make up Joomla: primarily HTML, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. Once we have a basic understanding of these we will be finally ready to start setting up our site.