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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

The Internet and the free economy


On the Internet today there is a constant push by people to receive more for less, and as a result it is very easy to get a hold of vast quantities of information, media, and entertainment for little or no cost. This has resulted in many, if not most, users assuming the Internet as a big free storehouse of whatever they want.

For a while this economy seemed sustainable as hardware and bandwidth prices dropped dramatically, and investors poured money into different sites during the dot com boom. But many web sites focussed more on getting visitors than building a sustainable business model, which is part of what lead to the subsequent bust.

This difficulty in monetization has persisted through to today, with only a few of the Internet's biggest sites actually turning a profit. The rest, like Facebook, rely mainly on investor's capital to fill the gap, like Facebook, or the support of a profitable mother company such as with Google and YouTube.

What does this...