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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

Configuring extensions


When configuring our extensions, it is important to make sure that we are setting them up to align with the goals and mission we set earlier. Keeping notes on these handy will make configuring our extensions quicker and easier.

AEC

AEC is likely to be the biggest, and most difficult, extension to configure on our site. The wide array of settings and configurations required can be daunting to a beginner, or even someone experienced with it. Thankfully, there are only a few settings that most people will need to use on their sites.

To download AEC, we need to go to http://valanx.org/.

The first thing we need to do is go to Extensions | Plugin Manager and activate the System | Legacy plugin. As AEC is still only native to Joomla! 1.0, we need to activate this plugin to get it to work on Joomla! 1.5.

Next we need to install the AEC component and the two plugins that come with it.

Before we configure AEC, we need to make some decisions. First, what sort of subscription plans...