Joomla! Explained: Your StepbyStep Guide (Joomla! Press) - Softcover

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Stephen Burge has split his career equally between teaching and web development. In 2007 he merged the two by teaching web development with Joomla!. His company Open Source Training teaches Joomla! classes around the world and online. Stephen travels widely, helping people learn and thrive with Joomla!. He has been involved with many aspects of the Joomla! community, most recently as board member of Open Source Matters, which provides Joomla! with financial and legal support.

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Master Joomla! hands-on, step-by-step, through easy, practical examples!

Joomla! now powers tens of millions of websites of every size and type. But many beginners find it confusing, and most Joomla! books are too complex to help.Joomla! Explained is the solution. Top Joomla! trainer Stephen Burge teaches everything beginners need to know--and nothing they don t need to know!

Joomla! Explained requires absolutely no experience with Joomla! content management, website construction, programming, scripting, or even HTML. Stephen Burge has taught thousands of beginners--and thousands more who ve experimented with Joomla! but haven t mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding Joomla! users up the learning curve--from confusion to results!

You ll master Joomla! one easy step at a time, through a complete hands-on case study. Burge presents crystal-clear visuals, explanations, and analogies--all extensively tested with real Joomla! beginners. This book s quick, easy coverage includes

Understanding what Joomla! does and how it works

Installing the latest version of Joomla

Navigating your site s visitor and administrator areas

Mastering workflows that make site creation easy

Adding text, images, links, and formatting

Creating efficient, usable navigation

Providing contact forms, ad banners, and link directories

Using modules to enable site registration and search

Adding voting and other smaller plug-in features

Quickly changing site designs with Joomla! templates

Finding, choosing, installing, and using extensions

Building both business and personal sites, step by step

Giving customized access to different types of users

Managing site versions in multiple languages

Efficiently administering, backing up, and updating sites