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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

Monetization models


There are five main models used for monetization on the Internet, the features of which often overlap one another making it sometimes difficult to determine which model is which.

Advertising

Advertising is a favored income stream of many people, particularly bloggers and sites offering an otherwise free service or product.

In this model, our income would come almost entirely from other people who are trying to sell their products and services to our visitors.

Advertising is generally only effective on high traffic sites, because most web users ignore a majority of advertising reflexively. We need to put an advertisement in front of a lot of people before we can find people who will click on them.

There are many approaches that we can take to put advertising on our site.

Google Adwords

One of the most common advertising methods, Google Adwords is a system where semi-random advertisements are placed on our site by Google, who then pays us a small percentage of the income they...