Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs! Pro, covers the basics of Joomla! 1.5 installation. You will also learn to use Jobs! Pro extension along with Joomla!. This chapter briefly describes the method of managing sections, categories, and content. It also describes how to manage extensions and add modules.

Chapter 2, Control Panel Interface, introduces you to Joomla! 1.5 administrator panel and Jobs! Pro control panel interface. After finishing this chapter, you can administrate and drive out your Joomla! jobsite easily.

Chapter 3, Designing a Jobsite Template, explains the basics of creating a Joomla! 1.5 template. After finishing this chapter, the basics of the template design in Joomla! 1.5 will be clear.

Chapter 4, Changing Configuration Settings, provides a step-by-step guideline to configuring your Joomla! jobsite with Global Configuration and Jobs! Pro configuration settings.

Chapter 5, Managing Jobs, Job Types, and Categories, is written for a practical approach. After completing this chapter you will learn managing jobs, job types, and categories from Jobs! Pro control panel.

Chapter 6, Managing Countries and Companies, covers adding a new country and managing list countries from the administrator panel. You will also learn how to manage company countries.

Chapter 7, Managing Email and Application Status, provides guidelines to create an e-mail template that will be used to respond to the applicants. You will also learn how to manage applications and its status. After reading this chapter, you will easily be able to manage your e-mail templates, applications, and application status.

Chapter 8, User Registration, Credits, Resume fields, and Education Levels, explains some complex and critical tasks, such as user registration system, managing employer credits, managing resume fields, and education levels. After completing this chapter, you will learn registering an employer or a jobseeker and managing the credit system. You will also learn to add or remove resume fields, resume field category, and education levels.

Chapter 9, Managing Cover Letter, Resume, and Resume Files, talks about viewing, adding, deleting, publishing and unpublishing cover letters, resumes, and resume files. After finishing this chapter, you can manage cover letters, resumes, and resume files.

Chapter 10, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), covers SEO, making SEO strategy, how to choose the right keywords, inserting the title and metadata in your Joomla! jobsite, changing basic SEO settings, making SEF URLs, creating an XML or an HTML site map, and submitting site maps and websites to search engines.

Appendix A, Online Resources, provides some website listings for further reading.

Appendix B, Search Engine Stop Words, provides a list of search engine stop words, which will help you to avoid using these words as keywords in SEO.

You can use any platform such as Windows, Linux, MAC, or any other operating system. You will need the following:

If you are looking to build and manage a jobsite using Joomla! extensions, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of using extensions is not expected, but Joomla! basics will be required.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "Add a<param> element for each parameter that you want to define and insert these between<params>...</params> tags."

A block of code is set as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE install PUBLIC "-//Joomla! 1.5//DTD template 1.0//EN"
"http://www.joomla.org/xml/dtd/1.5/template-install.dtd">

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Now click on Save to save everything."

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