Jen Kramer - Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site

Joomla! Start to Finish : How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site

Everything you need to know to plan and maintain a Joomla! site Joomla! offers powerful functionality and ease of configuration, making it an immensely popular open source content managementsystem. However, far more than simply downloading and installing Joomla! is required in order to create a dynamic web site. This book walks you through the critical steps that must be taken in the planning process prior to establishing a Joomla! site. Joomla! expert Jen Kramer reviews essential questions that need to be asked of a client, discusses technical solutions to a variety of challenges, and explains how a site structure should be organized. Once the groundwork has been laid, you'll discover how to host and install Joomla!, and upgrade and maintain your Joomla! site. Joomla! Start to Finish: * Sheds light on downloading and installing Joomla!, creating a site map, and tracking content and images * Details how to perform backups with JoomlaPack * Examines the modules, components, and plugins that come with Joomla! * Delves into Joomla!'s default template and how to download a template from another site * Introduces the Joomla! Extensions Directory and explains how to use it * Describes creating customized templates from the ground up, including advanced styling tricks with CSS * Expounds site maintenance and the importance of backups Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. wrox.com Programmer Forums Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world. Code Downloads Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use. Read More Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.