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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Introduction


Joomla! is a well known and popular platform. In fact, the joomla.org site itself receives several thousand hits a year. While there isn't a known figure for the amount of websites running Joomla!, a search in Google revealed over ten million sites that have it or reference it.

With a popular platform like Joomla!, sites are a target for hackers. And many of these sites are easy targets for a variety of reasons such as incorrect permissions, sites not being properly maintained, bad hosting choices, and more.

In this chapter you'll learn how to do the easy and medium difficulty tasks, designed to eliminate quite a few of the issues you may experience.

Lastly, we'll cover some tools and techniques designed to keep you safe.

For those interested in going deeper into security, you may wish to purchase Joomla! WebSecurity from Packt Publishing. It deals with the full gamut of security for your Joomla! site. It is available from Amazon.com and directly from PacktPub.com.