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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

About the Reviewers

Lesley A. Harrison has more than ten years experience working in the world of IT, having served as a Systems Administrator for a multinational IT outsourcing company, and later a database administrator for a British utility company. Today, Lesley runs her own video gaming site, Myth-Games.com, and works as a freelance web developer. She has clients all over the world, running a range of Joomla!, WordPress, and other open source CMSes, as well as some custom-coded solutions.

Lesley is currently working on the Beginner's Guide to WordPress-MU, which will be published by Packt Publishing in December 2009.

Oland T. Whitecotton, III is a certified PHP and MySQL developer with over 8 years of experience. He has worked for the largest debt consolidation company in America, Credit Solutions, as well as media publisher Idearc (think Superpages.com) and the employment web site Monster.com.

Tom Canavan has been in the computer and IT industry for 24 years and is currently working as the Chief Information Officer for a new Internet Security Startup.

He is author of the Packt Publications book, Joomla! Web Security and the book Dodging the Bullets - a disaster preparation Guide for Joomla! Websites.