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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 4. Installing and Configuring Extensions

Now that we have our mission, our goals, our list of extensions, and an understanding of how it all fits together, it is time to start putting it all together and assemble our site. Since we already know how to install a basic Joomla! site, we will start with our site configuration and then move into our extensions.

This chapter will primarily be practical with us in setting up the extensions on our sample site and walking through the process for selecting them. But the same process can be applied to any of our own sites.

We will cover:

  • Configuring Joomla!—Core extensions and configuration

  • Configuring content sections and categories—clearing sample content and creating new sections and categories

  • Configuring extensions—work through our main extensions for our site