Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website

Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website | Barrie M. North | AWESOME! Very thoroughly written for newbies and experts

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	Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website Barrie M. North Prentice Hall PTR, 2007 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Invaluable resource!

I am a professional web developer (mainly J2EE and PHP/MySQL); this book really helped me to take a decision: switch to Joomla!

The book starts with an introduction to Joomla! (and CMS in general) and then helps you to start your own site from scratch (fresh installation with NO sample content).

Then you'll learn how to develop a pure CSS template and after that there are three chapters devoted to the development of three different kind of sites: school, restaurant and blog.

Along with a dedicated site and forum (where Barrie replies to ALL our "stupid questions" ;) )... what else should I say?

Highly recommended!

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AWESOME! Very thoroughly written for newbies and experts

I have to say that after reading this book, I was impressed. This was the first book that I read about Joomla 1.5 and I was expecting a boring book with no examples. This book takes you through every step and leaves nothing out. I has some marketing steps and I loved the SEO chapter. The example sites that are built are quality examples of how a Joomla website should be organized. There was not a lot of technical mumbo jumbo and this book was very easy to read and understand. I will definitely buy more book by Barrie North in the future. He really knows his stuff.

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Joomla! A User's Guide

Great book for someone wanting to learn Joomla! 1.5 from the ground up. Knowing HTML and CSS is not required, but would be very helpful. Lots of "golden nuggets" of information throughout the book, such as SEO tips, average client monitor sizes, etc. Instructions include specific examples and walk-throughs. An excellent primer!

The only criticism I would offer is that some of the example images are difficult to read because they are printed light gray and the small text in the image.

well-written and accessible, though not fully complete

Well-written. It's aimed for someone with slightly less ability than I, but more than the average never done more than surf the web user.

Some portions of this book are available on-line for free.

I was disappointed with the templates section. I wanted something on finding and modifying other people's templates. Instead it includes how to make a basic template, which is helpful to know, but I need something more robust and found myself struggling with this part. I know others who have found this a tough step.

I found it useful to buy another book on CSS and XHTML, as I needed to brush up my skills in order to get into things with the templates.

Still, this may be the best Joomla book out there for a first introduction.

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better than I thought yesterday.. I stand corrected

Edit.. ok I gave a not great review for what turned out to be a user error.
I'm still working through making my template BUT I was able to install and view my template on joomla (note make sure to have joomla 1.5 installed)

Thank you for the help Barry, sorry for the negative remark.

again for the review part, I do like the language. The book explains how and why which is helpful. It's an easy read. Recommended for the novice (like me)

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