Beginning Joomla! (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Dan Rahmel

Book Overview

Joomla is one of the most searched-for and hired-for open source content management systems in the world. Since 2007, the combination of Joomla and Dan Rahmel's bestselling Beginning Joomla , From... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1430216425
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A must have book

After reading the reviews, I was somewhat skeptical. How ever with a need for more info I made the purchase. I am glad I did, regardless of your skill with joomla. You will find everything you need to get to grips with this powerful CMS! Some of the reviews say the book is for pros. My dealing with joomla is this. If you want a CMS with power and need the ability to use it, you will have to come to terms with learning. No book will do the heavy lifting for you! Those of you who did not find this book well detailed and informative. Ether you did not read it, or are just to lazy to work through the program. I gave it five stars only because that's as high as I could go!

The perfect book for beginners

I read some reviewers prefer reading online tutorials. I'm more a book person. For something completely new, I rather sit down with a book. This book is perfect for Joomla beginners, like myself. It took me a weekend to understand Joomla good enough to build a basic site, and a bit longer to make a reasonable template. Without this book, I could do it too, probably. Only it would take me much, much longer. Good written, well explained. Doesn't go deeper than it has to, so you (that's us, beginners) can build a pretty advanced site without diving into PHP or MySQL too deep. Doesnt't scare you off with complicated language or arcane required wisdom required after chapter 1. (Which far too many computer books do, regretfully.) Highly recommended.

Excellent beginner's book

First off, let me state that I'm a complete beginner when it comes to making websites. I have very limited experience with HTML/XHTML, and no experience with PHP, MySQL, javascript, modules, etc. But with this book I was able to have a complete up and running website in a matter of hours. The author does a very good job of holding your hand and walking you step by step through the entire process of setting up Joomla! on your web server and customizing the site to make it your own. I've looked at some of the documentation online, but a lot of it assumes that the reader has a more than cursory knowledge of numerous online processes. But Rahmel assumes that you have a shaky foundation of websites and instructs you accordingly. The book is also valuable in that it explains the numerous ins and outs of Joomla! where other documents fall short. For example, one of the templates I downloaded didn't call up the breadcrumbs module and I had no idea how to insert it into the template. The online documentation didn't help much, but luckily this book explained the breadcrumbs module and how to insert it. For anyone who is a newb to website design, this is the perfect book to get you started.

Highly recommended Book

I have been learning Joomla for quite sometime - from online videos, forums etc and finally i decided to get a book. This book is an excellent tutorial whether your starting out or have some ideas already. The author explained the topics thoroughly. What i really like is it that it not only teach you good design concepts but also it has everything you need to know to start a CMS website using new Joomla 1.5

Great book - easy to read

Well, I pretty much had to learn Joomla from scratch within a few days. There is so much documentation online, but this book was well worth the $40 I spent on it. I bought it from a bookstore. As a novice developer, I felt this book was written in easy to read, easy to understand, language. Not at all theoretical, and provides good practical examples with lots of diagrams and screen-shots. This is one of the few technical books out there that I didn't get a headache from reading. I highly recommend it.