Joomla! 3 Boot Camp: 30-Minute Lessons to Joomla! 3 Mastery

by Robin Turner, Herb Boeckenhaupt

Overview

Joomla! is the world's most popular open-source CMS website-building software, used by many of today's top companies to build websites and powerful online applications. JOOMLA! 3 BOOT CAMP: 30-MINUTE LESSONS TO JOOMLA! 3 MASTERY takes a unique approach to helping you master Joomla! 3. After a thorough introduction to the newly revamped Joomla! platform, the authors present a series of solutions for installing and managing a Joomla! 3 website. With the book's handy exercise-based format, you simply look up the tasks you want to perform and learn how to insert content using Joomla! 3 and its extensions. Then follow the easy, step-by-step instructions to accomplish each task. Among other skills, you will learn the details of Joomla! content structure and site layout; how to create and edit a commercial-quality website using the Joomla! 3 backend administrator control panel; how to integrate advanced extensions, specialized components, and modules, and much more. The book's companion website offers exercises, updates, and a wealth of valuable information for website administrators, including an online course written by the authors. With JOOMLA! 3 BOOT CAMP, you can master any content-management task in a half hour or less, even if you're new to the software. Intermediate and advanced users will find a quick reference, with special hints and tips to simplify the insertion of content items. Take control of your websites with JOOMLA! 3 BOOT CAMP: 30-MINUTE LESSONS TO JOOMLA! 3 MASTERY.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781285764672
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	04/16/2014
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Robin Turner is a program head and instructor of accounting and economics at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. She has 27 years of teaching experience at both the university and community college levels. She has authored print and digital educational support materials for more than 25 college accounting texts and has received several teaching excellence awards. Additionally, Robin received awards for Phi Theta Kappa Outstanding Advisor, Phi Theta Kappa Horizon Advisor, State Council of Higher Education of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award nominee, and Outstanding Faculty Among Students. In her spare time, she loves to cook, makes candy to die for, reads mystery novels, gardens, and spends time golfing with her spouse, Herb Boeckenhaupt.

Herb Boeckenhaupt retired from a 35-year career in the printing and graphics business in the late 1990s, just as the Internet was emerging. Following the sale of his business, he became a fulltime website designer and developer and has helped hundreds of clients over the past 15 years. Herb has been building websites with Joomla! since shortly after the software was "forked" from the Mambo platform. He has won awards for his work, including North Carolina Businessman of the Year and the Phi Beta Lambda National Business Person of the Year. He volunteers as a member of the Information Technologies and Web Technologies Advisory Committees at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. He has recently launched an online mobile app service for small businesses

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Joomla! 2. Installing Joomla! 3 3. Joomla! 3 Default Installation 4. How Joomla! 3 Works 5. Fast Track Start. 6. Front Page Content and Layout. 7. Adding and Managing Extensions. 8. Components: Contacts. 9. Components: Banners. 10. Components: Joomla! Update. 11. Components: Messaging. 12. Components: Newsfeeds. 13. Components: Redirects. 14. Components: Search and Smart Search. 15. Components: Tags. 16. Components: Weblinks. 17. Categories. 18. Articles. 19. Modules. 20. Plug-Ins. 21. Templates. 22. Images and Media. 23. Access Control Links and Permissions. 24. Using the Menu System. 25. Joomla! 3 Websites on Mobile Devices. 26. Using Forms. 27. Using Fonts with Joomla! 3. 28. Website Backups.