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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

Using the Joomla! Extensions Directory and Google


There are currently several thousand extensions listed on the Joomla! Extensions Directory, also known as the JED (http://extensions.joomla.org), so it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for one person to be familiar with all of them. As a result, we will need to take our time finding just the right extensions.

Luckily, the JED is divided into categories where we can view all the extensions related to that category or topic, and it can be searched along with the Internet in general, for extensions that we want. Alternatively, we can ask other people we know who might be more knowledgeable than ourselves.

The best way to use the JED search is via the advanced search feature, which can be found at the top of the page and to the right of the search box as shown:

When searching for extensions though, I actually recommend using Google over using the built-in search on the JED if possible, as at the time of writing, the search is not as useful...