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Joomla! Explained: Your StepbyStep Guide (Joomla! Press) 1st Edition

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The book will show people that they can build and manage a Joomla! 2.5 website without a technical background. Starting with an introduction to Joomla and how to install it, the book will detail how to add content, control users, make links and then add extra features to a Joomla! site. The book simplifies things to avoid difficult tasks that are unnecessary for beginners to understand. Written in plain English, the tutorial offers clear instructions, simple explanations, real-life examples, plenty of screenshots and humor. The book is aimed at busy people who want to understand Joomla in a fun, readable and straightforward way.
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"The book is a great learning tool for newbies and an excellent everyday reference for Joomla! content publishers and managers. It's equally valuable for website builders who want tutorials for their clients, and can serve as hands-on knowledge for any organization that is using Joomla!" Milena Mitova - Joomla Community Magazine

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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! Explainedrequires 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.

The 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
Note 1: This book was written using Joomla 1.6 but fully covers Joomla 2.5.
Note 2: This book does not cover coding your own templates or extensions. This book aims to teach you how to use Joomla even if you don't have a technical background.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0321703782
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AddisonWesley Professional; 1st edition (June 27, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780321703781
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321703781
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.54 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.01 x 9.1 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Steve Burge is from Portsmouth in southern England and now lives in Sarasota in the US.

Between leaving England and arriving in the US, there were a few stops in between, including Wales, Mexico, Japan and Australia. Steve paid for his travels by working as a teacher and a web designer.

Steve now combines teaching and web design by running OSTraining.com which teaches people how to build websites. OSTraining clients include Apple, Pfizer and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Education and Commerce.

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Gary E. Albers
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb tutorial
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2012
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Anyone who has ever attempted to design websites by handcoding with HTML, CSS and Javascript will greatly appreciate the value of using a CMS (Content Management System). Instead of spending many months, possibly years, gaining proficiency in those coding and markup languages, the task is reduced to (1) deciding which of the several CMS frameworks to use and (2) choosing a source of instruction. The first task usually amounts to deciding between one of the three most popular CMS implementations: WordPress, Joomla! or Drupal. For my purposes, I quickly decided on Joomla! for a variety of reasons. Then came the second task: how to learn to use it well in the shortest possible time.

After perusing the available texts on Amazon, I initially settled on Eric Tiggeler's book,  Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide , which appeared to be the most up-to-date and had good reviews. It covered Joomla! 2.5, the current version at the time, and I learned a lot from that book. Nevertheless, I finished it still pretty confused about the organization of Joomla! itself.

That was when I decided to buy the Kindle edition of _Joomla! Explained_, by Steven Burge, and I'm very glad I did. Burge's approach to teaching the fundamentals of Joomla primarily involves (1) using what he calls the CAShflow sequence of steps to add content and (2) repetition of core tasks. For me, it worked beautifully. I later learned that Burge runs a highly successful website that provides both online and classroom training in WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal, with an impressive list of satisfied clients. After finishing his tutorial book, I finally felt I had a good understanding of not only specific important tasks in Joomla!, but how everything fit together; i.e., the organization of Joomla! itself. This made it much easier to continue exploring on my own.

On one occasion I had to contact the author with a question. I received a personal reply within 24 hours. After answering my initial question during a couple of email exchanges, Steve turned me over to one of his excellent staff on his training website, OSTraining, who continued to provide knowledgeable help to several subsequent queries.

It should be noted that Burge's book targets version 1.6 of Joomla!, whereas the current version is 2.5, with 3.0 on the horizon. For the most part, this was not a problem. Almost all examples and instructions worked with 2.5, which I was using. The few inconsistencies I found were easy to identify and work around. The one major exception occurred in a later chapter on templates, where I was instructed to download and install a template that was apparently available free when Burge wrote the book. When I visited the download site, I discovered that the vendor now required registration and a substantial signup fee, which I declined! Again, this hiccup didn't seriously impact the lessons on templates. Also irritating was the fact that the book's errata referred to page numbers in the hardcopy version of the book. Since my Kindle edition did not have page numbers, only "locations", the errata were pretty useless. But, again, this did not represent a significant problem.

Having taught college-level computer science and programming courses in the past, I can only express my admiration for the organization and didactic techniques used by the author in this book. I would recommend it highly to anyone interested in learning the basics of Joomla! I look forward to an updated version of this book and, personally, intend to enroll in OSTraining for ongoing instruction from a tutorial school that seems to be both effective and surprisingly affordable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars JoomlaExplained is Great!
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2011
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I bought both the Kindle and the book version of JoomlaExplained by Steve Berg. It has become one of my recommended books to my students. It is simple, clear and well written. It truly is a step by step guide and is at the right level for new Joomla users. The text flows and is easy to understand. The examples and the links are very appropriate. I bought the Kindle version so that I could always have the book with me so that if I am working away from the office I have a quick electronic reference on hand. It also makes it easy to work between the steps in the book and on the screen. I was able to quickly create the sites and it gave confidence to do more with Joomla.
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David
5.0 out of 5 stars Burge's book has got to be best one for learning Joomla quickly and thoroughly!
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2013
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Just absolutely terrific book. Stephen Burge's version is absolutely the one. I looked at several, and I am an absolute newbie.

I bought a Synology DS713+ to host my website and one of the many free Packages that Synology offers is Joomla to create a website, and a MySQL database to manage it.

This book presents very clear instructions, and shows what each screen should look like. Truth to tell, it took about 4 hours of working with this book and with Joomla itself, following the examples in the book, to create my first website. I just went up to page 100 or so, and not only could use it well enough to create a starter site, but I can see the quite logical way in which Joomla is organized and used. Joomla is astonishingly powerful and malleable, as well as simple to use. You never see code. You make a change in Site Administration, and there it is on the website.

Joomla is a CMS Content Management System. It allows you to type in text and imports pics to your webpages, and manage the look of your pages, navigation, etc. It turns out that creating a website is astonishingly simple Joomla and using this book, and the book gives a lot of good, sort of sidelight advice.

As a final note, it was easy to create the web site, but what had me stumped was actually installing my joomla-produced site on the Synology DS713+. There are things involved, including getting a fixed IP address, a domain name, and a security certificate from StartCom, setting up the DNS on the DS713+, and more. I figured all of this out, but I have zero experience in actually installing the website on the server.

It turns out that you create your website in Joomla, then open FileStation file manager and you can see the target file for any internet visitor. "\web" is a shared folder automatically created on the DS713+ when you set it up. The target file is web\index.html. Rename it to, e.g., web\originalindex.html. Then go to the folder at web\joomla and copy everything, directories and all, up to the web\ folder. Don't cut and paste. I experimented. Voila!
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HoneyBee
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Not a Techy and I Loved This Book
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2012
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I'm a bit of a luddite, so I've never designed a website before. My brother recommended Joomla, so being the avid reader that I am, I immediately looked for a good "how to" book.

If I can understand and follow this book, anyone can. A few days ago I started using Joomla and because of the detailed instructions in the book, it all feels very familar to me and easy to use.

Here are the pros: the book comes with a simple work flow that is easy to remember, no hard to understand "techy" language, it's well organized, it has good visuals, it literally takes you through everything step-by-step, it covers all the essentials.

There's not a lot of cons, but here are a few: there's a lot of unnecessary practice work (you can skip past it like I did), there's not enough info on extensions.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking to design with Joomla. It's an excellent book. I would have liked to have seen some more info on extensions, but it covered enough for me to learn the rest on my own.

Great book!
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Fenice
4.0 out of 5 stars Un manuale per tutti
Reviewed in Italy on November 29, 2014
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Manuale essenziale, chiaro, scritto per essere capito da tutti, a prescindere dalle conoscenze informatiche.
Anche se non esaustivo, alla fine del libro si riesce a metter su in locale un sito web scritto in Joomla!
Ottimo come primo libro sull'argomento.
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Derek Cameron
5.0 out of 5 stars Clear and to the point
Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2013
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This is indeed a great book. Most importantly, its explanations of things are incredibly clear and to the point. It's also comprehensive, covering the basics from installation of Joomla and getting started with articles, right through to where to get extensions and templates. The book is written for Joomla 1.6.2, but I still found it usable for Joomla 3.0.3. It's amazing how quickly software moves on. I pity the authors of technical books, who have to revise their work every twelve months to keep it reasonably up to date.
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Petar
5.0 out of 5 stars El libro perfecto que explica todo paso a paso y se aprende facil !
Reviewed in Spain on March 23, 2013
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Envio y manipulacion rapidos ! El libro es buenisimo para la creacion de paginas web a tu gusto ! Este libro es el perfecto para todo tipo de personas solo con leer un poco y practicar todo lo que dice en el libro y ya esta ya saves crear la pagina perfecta !
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Paul Cloetens
3.0 out of 5 stars bon ouvrage
Reviewed in France on February 5, 2013
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J'ai acheté ce livre comme base d'information concernant ce programme.
Il donne une vue complète avec le second volume "bible de base joamla".
A conseiller
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dtanderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent step-by-step guide for a complex subject
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2012
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It's taken me a long time to get around the complexities of Joomla. Things like "what are the differences between Components, Modules and Plugins"; menus and menu positions; creating Categories before adding Articles; etc.

This book is a very good step-by-step guide which you follow in creating a site for a fictitious town, Joomlaville. It gets you into the simple 3-step process of adding content to the site, and follows this through to the end, so if you complete the example website you should be very familiar with this process and hopefully continue to use for future sites you develop.

One minor criticism raised previously is that the book covers version 1.6, whereas the current version (July 2012) is 2.5. There are no real significant differences - at least for a newcomer to Joomla - so don't let this put you off.

One thing I missed, which is a real pity. I was on the last section of the book and happened to read the back cover. There it tells you that you can access the "Free Online Edition" of the book. This is for 45 days only, but should be sufficient for you to build the Joomlaville site. If you have an iPad or other tablet, as I do, then you can read this by the side of your computer whilst building the site. Such a big help.

Another thing to be aware of - there are a few typos and other errors in the book, which is probably on par for most books. So DO check the Joomla Explained Errata and mark up your book BEFORE you start the course.

Important issues covered, and suggested links, are for downloading templates (both free and commercial) and the most useful extensions, including the very important ones such as backup and security. The number of extensions for Joomla is enormous (nearly 10,000) and the author guides you through how to choose the most suitable ones for you.

If you go through the book step by step, you should become reasonably confident to work on your own sites and continually improve your knowledge of Joomla. Because of the complexity of Joomla itself, the learning curve is quite steep, and it does need a lot of perseverence to become reasonably adept at the whole process.
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