Joomla! 1.5 A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website

The world's best-selling Joomla! book, now fully updated to cover Joomla! 1.55- Covers everything users need to know to build Joomla! sites from scratch - and customize them to their specific requirements.- Includes complete case studies, extensive code samples, and detailed coverage of today's best Joomla! extensions and add-ons- By Barrie North, a high-profile author and leading Joomla! consultant who is well known for his speaking and training engagements. Millions of individuals and organizations want to build sophisticated Web sites that can be easily edited and updated. The best tool for doing so is Joomla! -- the world's #1 open source content management system. Easy to read, and easy to use, this book is packed with real-world scenarios, examples, and code - all fully updated for the newest release, Joomla! 1.5.5. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers everything readers need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. Writing in plain English, North starts by demystifying content management and introducing Joomla!'s simplest design and system concepts. Next, North builds readers' expertise step-by-step, showing how to build and customize Joomla! sites from scratch. Topics covered include: content organization, dynamic pages, navigation, modules and components, optimizing Joomla! sites for search engines, and a whole lot more. Throughout, North offers expert tips and tricks that can be used by anyone, including Joomla! novices. He presents never-before-published tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies. Readers will also learn where to find the best and newest Joomla! extensions - so they can accomplish even more with Joomla!, without writing original code.

Barrie North has more than 15 years of experience with the Internet, as a user, designer, and teacher. He has spent more than 8 years in the education field, becoming steadily more involved in web technology and teaching web design classes to students and teaching technology integration to teachers. Most recently, he worked as an IT consultant for two new schools pioneering in the use of technology. As well as web design, he has provided web marketing/SEO and usability, and he runs training classes for Joomla! across the United States.

 

In 2008 he launched a new company, Simplweb.com, which provides turnkey Joomla! websites for small business, schools, and other industries. He has written many free tutorials for using Joomla! and is a frequent speaker at Joomla! events. His combination of Joomla! expertise, educational skills, and engaging writing has produced books accessible to everyone.