Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website
Published: 2007-12-11
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pages: 480 (Paperback)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pages: 480 (Paperback)
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Product Reviews
Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website
On the positive side: A clear concise guide to using Joomla! as a CMS to build websites. The contents list is detailed and the book is easy to understand, and what I liked most was you could jump to any section of the book and throughout it gives clear guidelines and notes. Well worth the read.
I don't think I came across anything I would have liked to have seen prior to purchasing the book. Aside from not finding it earlier rather than later!
[2010-04-24]
This is a must have for newbies to Joomla
I purchased this book on the recommendations given on various sites and have found the book invaluable. There are times where a good reference book is better than trying to get the answers from google on-line. This is the book to keep by your side when trying to produce websites using Joomla! The content is written in easy to understand language for the complete novice to read and digest.
[2010-04-11]
On the whole, a very useful book
Despite some rather harsh comments here and elsewhere, Barrie North's book is a very useful guide for the curious mind. He deserves commendation, not brickbats. One of the topics that Mr North would do well to address in an update would be foremost in the minds of many: how to go about fashioning a standard installation of Joomla to one's needs, especially when that standard installation has been made by your ISP, as happens to be the case these days. The three templates that get installed with Joomla 1.5 are not attractive (but thanks anyway) and more documentation is required about customising them. I am often asked by friends: should the installation be in a joomla folder or should it go live right away and, if in an online folder, how does one make it publishable, and so on? Joomla warriors may laugh at this simple line of questioning but these questions do preoccupy people who are keen on Joomla but also confused. A lot of the online info and 'guidance' is mind-numbing jargon that does their writers little credit. Barry North at least avoids that most of the time and, despite typos cited elsewhere and other valid criticisms, he excels in explaining the stuff. Go easy on him, and let him do an update.
[2010-03-07]
An Easy Way to learn Joomla!
As a total beginner I purchased this book to learn Joomla! When I finished reading this book (after 2 weeks of intensive practising) I was able to build a website in Joomla! What I appreciated the most, were the practical chapters where I was building 3 complete websites from scratch. That taught me the most! I can only recommend this excellent book.
[2010-02-20]
about as much use as a chocolate tea pot
if content is king, then this is the emperor's new clothes. maddingly out of date and frustrating to use. don't buy it unless you like banging your head against the wall, espcailly when it comes to building a new template.
[2009-12-29]
Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website
On the positive side: A clear concise guide to using Joomla! as a CMS to build websites. The contents list is detailed and the book is easy to understand, and what I liked most was you could jump to any section of the book and throughout it gives clear guidelines and notes. Well worth the read.
I don't think I came across anything I would have liked to have seen prior to purchasing the book. Aside from not finding it earlier rather than later!
[2010-04-24]
This is a must have for newbies to Joomla
I purchased this book on the recommendations given on various sites and have found the book invaluable. There are times where a good reference book is better than trying to get the answers from google on-line. This is the book to keep by your side when trying to produce websites using Joomla! The content is written in easy to understand language for the complete novice to read and digest.
[2010-04-11]
On the whole, a very useful book
Despite some rather harsh comments here and elsewhere, Barrie North's book is a very useful guide for the curious mind. He deserves commendation, not brickbats. One of the topics that Mr North would do well to address in an update would be foremost in the minds of many: how to go about fashioning a standard installation of Joomla to one's needs, especially when that standard installation has been made by your ISP, as happens to be the case these days. The three templates that get installed with Joomla 1.5 are not attractive (but thanks anyway) and more documentation is required about customising them. I am often asked by friends: should the installation be in a joomla folder or should it go live right away and, if in an online folder, how does one make it publishable, and so on? Joomla warriors may laugh at this simple line of questioning but these questions do preoccupy people who are keen on Joomla but also confused. A lot of the online info and 'guidance' is mind-numbing jargon that does their writers little credit. Barry North at least avoids that most of the time and, despite typos cited elsewhere and other valid criticisms, he excels in explaining the stuff. Go easy on him, and let him do an update.
[2010-03-07]
An Easy Way to learn Joomla!
As a total beginner I purchased this book to learn Joomla! When I finished reading this book (after 2 weeks of intensive practising) I was able to build a website in Joomla! What I appreciated the most, were the practical chapters where I was building 3 complete websites from scratch. That taught me the most! I can only recommend this excellent book.
[2010-02-20]
about as much use as a chocolate tea pot
if content is king, then this is the emperor's new clothes. maddingly out of date and frustrating to use. don't buy it unless you like banging your head against the wall, espcailly when it comes to building a new template.
[2009-12-29]