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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 9. Finding and Fixing Problems

Up to this point we have become familiar with the tools and methods for adding extensions to our site and customizing them to meet our needs. Everything has gone well for us up until this point, but as anyone who has built a complex site knows that, there will almost always be a few things that go wrong. The more complex we make our site, the more likely it is that some sort of problem will occur.

Because of this, it is vitally important for every one of us to get at least a basic understanding of how to diagnose, and preferably solve, any problems or bugs that we come across when building our site. Before we look at how to do that, we will cover some of the most common problems we may encounter when building our sites, and why they occur. We will be covering:

  • Understanding common errors

  • Common PHP related errors

  • Common JavaScript related errors

  • Common Server related errors

  • Hacking the Joomla! core—consequences and considerations

  • Getting Support—how to and...