Joomla! 16 Beginner Guide Hagen Graf Christine Graf Isabell Schulz Thilo Petry Nadine Loeffler Dianne Henning eBook
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"Jumla" is the Swahili word for “all together" and was the inspiration for the name Joomla!. The Joomla! project is one of the biggest content management systems worldwide, backed by a global community. It lets you create unique websites in your own language. Even if you are not a specialist -) I have structured the book as follows
1. Introduction
2. Showcase
3. Installation
4. Structures and Terms
5. What's New in Joomla! 1.6
6. Managing Content
7. Website and Content Configuration
8. Templates
9. Navigation
10. Users and Permissions
11. Extension Management
12. Core Extensions
13. Modules
14. Plug-ins
15. Multi-Language Websites
16. Working with Templates
17. Search Engine Optimization
18. Upgrade from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 1.6
19. Resources
Although you are a beginner, you will be able to manage your own Joomla! website. If you are somehow familar with HTML, CSS and image editing, you will be able to customize a template for your website.
Joomla! 16 Beginner Guide Hagen Graf Christine Graf Isabell Schulz Thilo Petry Nadine Loeffler Dianne Henning eBook
I will review three books about Joomla 1.6:- Joomla 1.6: A User's Guide, by Barrie North
- Joomla 1.6 First Look, by Eric Tiggeler
- Joomla 1.6 - A Beginner's Guide, by Hagen Graf
I will not review the Joomla website documentation because there isn't any! Joomla 1.6 has been out for five months and the official website just shows a table of contents for chapters people should write someday.
Joomla 1.6 is a dream to use for organizing content, such as articles, menus, categories, and navigation. Both North's book and Tiggeler's book explain this area well. You almost don't need a book, it's so easy to do.
I haven't yet delved into Access Control Levels. I need to do this on one of my websites. Tiggeler's book has a chapter on ACL, North's book doesn't. If you will have a community of users, e.g., students, teachers, and administrators, each with different powers and privileges, you will need to study this.
Extensions can be a nightmare. But no book will help you, as each extension has its own bugs. All you can do is buy extensions that include tech support, i.e., the free, unsupported extensions hardly ever work.
The big nightmare with Joomla 1.6 is the templates. What attracted me to Joomla 1.5 was that you could switch modules on and off, set where you wanted them to appear (e.g., at the top of the left column) and dynamic content would appear. E.g., a list of the highest-rated articles on your website, or a list of members currently logged in, or a menu or something. This isn't easy in Joomla 1.6. 1.6 templates use CSS3 and HTML5 to create layouts without using tables. Joomla 1.5 books are no use at all for 1.6 templates.
Tiggeler's book explains clearly all the changes you can make to existing templates without tinkering with the CSS3 and HTML5 code. Same templates give you a lot of options you can change.
North's book tells you how to write a template from scratch. This might be helpful if you know CSS3 and HTML5 but I was lost. I know the old CSS and HTML but the new stuff is really different.
I bought Graf's book and only read the template chapter. Mostly it's about modifying existing templates, beyond the options the designers gave you (Tiggeler's book) but without writing your own template from scratch (North's book). It has some useful information but isn't anywhere close to a complete explanation.
To reiterate what's so frustrating: to build a Joomla 1.6 website you will select a template to display your layout, e.g., your logo in the upper left corner, the main menu across the top, two columns for displaying dynamic modules in a narrow column on the left and a wide column on the right for your content, etc. You'll be able to change elements of the layout from the Joomla administration area (Tiggeler's book explains this well). But there will be one little thing you want to change. E.g., the top menu isn't quite wide enough to display all your categories. You could shorten the names of your categories, but you'd rather make the top menu a few pixels wider. None of these books explains how to make little changes to an existing template. I've spent thousands of dollars hiring "experts" to make some little change, and most of these so-called experts know barely more than I know.
I'm now ordering a book about CSS3 and HTML5. Maybe this will be the "missing manual" I need.
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Joomla! 16 Beginner Guide Hagen Graf Christine Graf Isabell Schulz Thilo Petry Nadine Loeffler Dianne Henning eBook Reviews
I will review three books about Joomla 1.6
- Joomla 1.6 A User's Guide, by Barrie North
- Joomla 1.6 First Look, by Eric Tiggeler
- Joomla 1.6 - A Beginner's Guide, by Hagen Graf
I will not review the Joomla website documentation because there isn't any! Joomla 1.6 has been out for five months and the official website just shows a table of contents for chapters people should write someday.
Joomla 1.6 is a dream to use for organizing content, such as articles, menus, categories, and navigation. Both North's book and Tiggeler's book explain this area well. You almost don't need a book, it's so easy to do.
I haven't yet delved into Access Control Levels. I need to do this on one of my websites. Tiggeler's book has a chapter on ACL, North's book doesn't. If you will have a community of users, e.g., students, teachers, and administrators, each with different powers and privileges, you will need to study this.
Extensions can be a nightmare. But no book will help you, as each extension has its own bugs. All you can do is buy extensions that include tech support, i.e., the free, unsupported extensions hardly ever work.
The big nightmare with Joomla 1.6 is the templates. What attracted me to Joomla 1.5 was that you could switch modules on and off, set where you wanted them to appear (e.g., at the top of the left column) and dynamic content would appear. E.g., a list of the highest-rated articles on your website, or a list of members currently logged in, or a menu or something. This isn't easy in Joomla 1.6. 1.6 templates use CSS3 and HTML5 to create layouts without using tables. Joomla 1.5 books are no use at all for 1.6 templates.
Tiggeler's book explains clearly all the changes you can make to existing templates without tinkering with the CSS3 and HTML5 code. Same templates give you a lot of options you can change.
North's book tells you how to write a template from scratch. This might be helpful if you know CSS3 and HTML5 but I was lost. I know the old CSS and HTML but the new stuff is really different.
I bought Graf's book and only read the template chapter. Mostly it's about modifying existing templates, beyond the options the designers gave you (Tiggeler's book) but without writing your own template from scratch (North's book). It has some useful information but isn't anywhere close to a complete explanation.
To reiterate what's so frustrating to build a Joomla 1.6 website you will select a template to display your layout, e.g., your logo in the upper left corner, the main menu across the top, two columns for displaying dynamic modules in a narrow column on the left and a wide column on the right for your content, etc. You'll be able to change elements of the layout from the Joomla administration area (Tiggeler's book explains this well). But there will be one little thing you want to change. E.g., the top menu isn't quite wide enough to display all your categories. You could shorten the names of your categories, but you'd rather make the top menu a few pixels wider. None of these books explains how to make little changes to an existing template. I've spent thousands of dollars hiring "experts" to make some little change, and most of these so-called experts know barely more than I know.
I'm now ordering a book about CSS3 and HTML5. Maybe this will be the "missing manual" I need.
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