Joomla! Bible

By Ric Shreves

Comprehensive guide to creating Web sites with the open-sourceJoomla!1.5

Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) forWeb sites. While it is free and relatively easy to use, there arelots of tricks and functionality that may not be intuitive to newusers or those switching from other systems. And the previousversion is quite different from the new Joomla 1.5, for whichdocumentation is sparse. Joomla! Bible is the complete,step-by-step guide you need to build and manage Web sites using thevery newest version of this powerful and popular CMS.

• Walks you through obtaining the Joomla! 1.5 code and how todeploy it to a server, configure the site, create content, andmanage content and user hierarchies
• Helps you get the most out of core modules that provideadvanced functionality, including the Polls Module, the BannerManager, the Media Manager, Galleries, Weblinks, ContentSyndication, and Newsfeed Aggregation
• Vaults you into the world of Web 2.0 with extensive coverage ofJomSocial, and shows you how to set up for e-commmerce withVirtueMart

Get the most out of Joomla! 1.5 with this complete guideguide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Dec 9, 2009
• ISBN: 9780470588857

Ric Shreves

Ric Shreves is one of the founding partners of water&stone, an interactive agency that specialises in open source web content management systems. Ric has been building CMS websites for over 10 years, and during that time has been involved in projects for a number of global brands, including BASF, BearingPoint, Colgate-Palmolive, Tesco Lotus, FPDSavills CBRichard Ellis, Mercy Corps and many others. Ric has published a number of books on open source in general and on open source content management systems in particular. Past work includes books on Mambo, Drupal, Joomla! and Ubuntu.