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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

Summary


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.