Log in Register




Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide

Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide March 2013

(0 votes)

Even if you’ve never even begun to build a website, this guide will have you completing one within an hour. It’s a fast, practical, fun introduction to Joomla! and content managed website creation

Views 4,024 Downloads 22
Version March 2013 Created
System Joomla 3 Changed 2016-02-27
Website JED external Developer Packt Publishing external
License GNU/GPL external 0 EUR

Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It’s a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.

Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.

The Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It’s presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do – it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.
You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.

Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you’ll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites
  2. Installation: Getting Joomla Up and Running
  3. First Steps: Getting to Know Joomla
  4. Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an Hour
  5. Small Sites, Big Sites: Organizing your Content Effectively
  6. Creating Killer Content: Adding and Editing Articles
  7. Welcoming your Visitors: Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages
  8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want: Managing Menus
  9. Opening Up the Site: Enabling Users to Log In and Contribute
  10. Getting the Most out of Your Site: Extending Joomla
  11. Creating an Attractive Design: Working with Templates
  12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic: SEO Tips and Techniques

What You Will Learn

  • Create a feature-rich site that's easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Design attractive home pages that provide a quick overview of the site's contents and direct people to the content they could be interested in
  • Engage your web visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments
  • Design clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks
  • Make full use of templates to get your site looking just right, tweaking the CSS and customizing templates using your own logo, fonts, and colors
  • Extend Joomla!'s capabilities by finding and utilizing must-have extensions that perfectly meet your needs
  • Increase your site's visibility for search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques
  • Secure your site from hackers and potential threats using easy-to-follow techniques

Author: Eric Tiggeler

Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla!, such as the highly successful Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide  and Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He has also written several Joomla! guides in Dutch. His books have received excellent reader reviews. He also writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites. Over the last ten years, he has developed numerous websites, big and small, using Joomla!.

He is fascinated by the Web as a powerful, creative, and ever-changing means of communication, as well as by the revolutionary software Joomla!, which enables anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites.

On a daily basis, he works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated to the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 20 books in Dutch on writing and communication. His passion lies in making complex things easy to understand.

He is married, has two daughters, and lives and works in Hilversum, the Netherlands. On the Web, you'll find him at www.joomla.erictiggeler.nl (in Dutch) and www.joomm.net (in English).

Only registered and logged in users can download this file.

Add comment

Submit