Joomla! 3: Beginner’s Guide

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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.

What you will learn from this book

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

Approach
Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner’s Guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are bolstered by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! website.

Who this book is for
This book is written for beginners to website design. By the end of the book you will have built a complete custom content managed website, and be ready to build any kind of website.