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The First Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!-The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System

If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla!-the world’s #1 open source content management system. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find never-before-published tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts, and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla!’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla!? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5 reference content.

·   Understanding content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together

·   Building Joomla! sites from scratch, and systematically customizing them to your needs

·   Organizing content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables

·   Creating dynamic pages and effective navigation

·   Working with Joomla! modules and components

·   Search engine optimization for Joomla! sites

·   Start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, an e-commerce site, and a blog

·   The most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: finding them, and using them

·   Key differences between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5, and what they mean to you

About the Website

The accompanying site for the Joomla 1.5 book, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla! The site also includes

• An active forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book from a Joomla expert 
  
• 5 fully functional Joomla 1.5 live follow-along examples from the book. You can browse the sites and their backends live online.
• Downloads of 5 free websites for Joomla 1.5 based on various chapter of the book. These are SQL dumps you can import to instantly give you a completed Joomla site. 
  
• 4 free tutorial templates and 3 free templates from joomlashack.com including the popular commercial template - JS Aqualine!

Customer Review :

Loved this Book!

I've tried a lot of different Joomla books but this is my favorite, I even recommend it to my clients on my website. I like the way the information was presented, not like a programmer but as a designer. This means I know that a lot of the people I deal with could get their head around it. I'm ready for the next one (and Joomla 1.6)!!

Rating :

Novices beware!

The thickness of the book combined with the recommendation from a Joomla User Group member got me excited about the value I would get from working through this book. I am a graphic designer. I'm brand new to Joomla. I built static websites using Dreamweaver 7 years ago.

I figured I would start at the beginning of the book and work my way to the back. I started following step-by-step directions on my computer to build a fictitious site. I discovered that the directions are not complete and I have to struggle to figure out what I am missing. This happened too many times. The author also assigns names to sections, categories and articles and then shows these same elements in a screen capture or in a list and they have a different name. The result was that it added unwelcome stress to a challenging process.

Amusingly, he quotes author Steve Krug from his book, "Don't Make Me Think": "If there's a major discrepancy between the link name and the page name, my trust in the site will diminish". My trust in this book and author are gone. I have moved on to another book.

Rating :

Needs an Errata

Getting through this book and its exercises is painfully slow. The author seems more intent on plugging his website and his affiliates than he is with conveying the content of his book in a practical and seamless manner. In the first chapter he simply blows off Mac users with little to no explanation. So I had to figure out the installation process by scanning through the Joomla forums.

The first 5 or 6 chapters are filled with redundant information that merely skims through some of the aspects of Joomla. I actually closed the book and used the "help" button that is accessible with every Joomla panel. This Joomla feature provided a line by line detail in simple and comprehensive explanations that the book did not.

The author devoted two chapters explaining the hierarchy of CMS and ran through a simple set up of sections, categories, and articles without really touching on any of the parameters. I understand that the parameters in Joomla are extensive but one would think a book that calls itself a "User's Guide" would at least attempt to explain some of the fundamentals.

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect is that the book is riddled with errors and I searched the author's shamelessly plugged website for an errata and found nothing. For example- the author makes a special note in part 1 of the tutorial to explain that module styles cannot be attached to components. Yet my navigation would not work until I disregarded the author's note and attached a "XHTML style" to my component. This may not seem like a big deal but I wasted a couple hours running line by line through code and troubleshooting until I figured out the mistake. This seemed to be the case over and over.

If you want to learn how to build sites with Joomla-save your money. There are plenty of free resources online that go into far more detail and are much easier to follow than this book. If you want to learn how to design custom Joomla templates save your hair and find a book that has an errata.

Rating :

Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide

This book is an good introduction to the Joomla! content management system. It's well written and clear, a good starting point for beginners. I found the book readable, jargon-free, and informative. I am a web designer, so I already had a solid foundation to start from. I think that beginners might benefit from more discussion about servers, since the Joomla! package requires a MYSQL server to be installed. However, the author covers the basics of Joomla!/servers adequately. All in all, it was a good purchase.

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Good Intro, but Not Very Coherent

While the book was a somewhat decent intro to Joomla, with relevant walk-throughs, the author at times tends to skip steps and does not provide answers for common mistakes that a beginner might make. For example, in one case, he is describing how to make a menu but leaves out a key detail of making "Show Title" a "no" variable, causing the reader to try to find out why his/her example looks differently from the book (it can become a nightmare trying to figure things out). Also, the index is woefully lacking -- trying to find out what the "order" column does involves searching through the book, rather than going to a page that should be listed in the index. Additionally, one of the templates the author recommends and can be downloaded on his own site after he requires you to submit your email address - the restaurant template - I found to be "unwritable", meaning it is limited in its ability to be customized. Even more, I found some of the images to be out of line with the text that referred to them. I bought this book because it was the later version of a friend's book, but much of this information I have found quite easily for free with google searches, after having to search so much to cover all the missing steps in the book. If you are serious about learning joomla, but are a beginner, simply google the large number of forums on the web, and you will get all the answers you are looking for. As for this book, it goes in the "ebay" pile. Will probably avoid Mr. North's writings in the future.

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Editorial Review :

The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!^TM--The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System

If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla!’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla!? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla! 1.5 reference content.

• Understand content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together
• Build Joomla! sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
• Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables
• Create dynamic pages and effective navigation
• Work with Joomla! modules and components
• Learn how to optimize your Joomla! sites for search engines
• Follow three start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, a small business site, and a blog
• Identify the most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: find them and use them

About the Website

The accompanying site, www.joomlabook.com, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla!.

Customer Review :

Good Intro, but Not Very Coherent

While the book was a somewhat decent intro to Joomla, with relevant walk-throughs, the author at times tends to skip steps and does not provide answers for common mistakes that a beginner might make. For example, in one case, he is describing how to make a menu but leaves out a key detail of making "Show Title" a "no" variable, causing the reader to try to find out why his/her example looks differently from the book (it can become a nightmare trying to figure things out). Also, the index is woefully lacking -- trying to find out what the "order" column does involves searching through the book, rather than going to a page that should be listed in the index. Additionally, one of the templates the author recommends and can be downloaded on his own site after he requires you to submit your email address - the restaurant template - I found to be "unwritable", meaning it is limited in its ability to be customized. Even more, I found some of the images to be out of line with the text that referred to them. I bought this book because it was the later version of a friend's book, but much of this information I have found quite easily for free with google searches, after having to search so much to cover all the missing steps in the book. If you are serious about learning joomla, but are a beginner, simply google the large number of forums on the web, and you will get all the answers you are looking for. As for this book, it goes in the "ebay" pile. Will probably avoid Mr. North's writings in the future.

Rating :

Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide

This book is an good introduction to the Joomla! content management system. It's well written and clear, a good starting point for beginners. I found the book readable, jargon-free, and informative. I am a web designer, so I already had a solid foundation to start from. I think that beginners might benefit from more discussion about servers, since the Joomla! package requires a MYSQL server to be installed. However, the author covers the basics of Joomla!/servers adequately. All in all, it was a good purchase.

Rating :

Loved this Book!

I've tried a lot of different Joomla books but this is my favorite, I even recommend it to my clients on my website. I like the way the information was presented, not like a programmer but as a designer. This means I know that a lot of the people I deal with could get their head around it. I'm ready for the next one (and Joomla 1.6)!!

Rating :

Needs an Errata

Getting through this book and its exercises is painfully slow. The author seems more intent on plugging his website and his affiliates than he is with conveying the content of his book in a practical and seamless manner. In the first chapter he simply blows off Mac users with little to no explanation. So I had to figure out the installation process by scanning through the Joomla forums.

The first 5 or 6 chapters are filled with redundant information that merely skims through some of the aspects of Joomla. I actually closed the book and used the "help" button that is accessible with every Joomla panel. This Joomla feature provided a line by line detail in simple and comprehensive explanations that the book did not.

The author devoted two chapters explaining the hierarchy of CMS and ran through a simple set up of sections, categories, and articles without really touching on any of the parameters. I understand that the parameters in Joomla are extensive but one would think a book that calls itself a "User's Guide" would at least attempt to explain some of the fundamentals.

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect is that the book is riddled with errors and I searched the author's shamelessly plugged website for an errata and found nothing. For example- the author makes a special note in part 1 of the tutorial to explain that module styles cannot be attached to components. Yet my navigation would not work until I disregarded the author's note and attached a "XHTML style" to my component. This may not seem like a big deal but I wasted a couple hours running line by line through code and troubleshooting until I figured out the mistake. This seemed to be the case over and over.

If you want to learn how to build sites with Joomla-save your money. There are plenty of free resources online that go into far more detail and are much easier to follow than this book. If you want to learn how to design custom Joomla templates save your hair and find a book that has an errata.

Rating :

Novices beware!

The thickness of the book combined with the recommendation from a Joomla User Group member got me excited about the value I would get from working through this book. I am a graphic designer. I'm brand new to Joomla. I built static websites using Dreamweaver 7 years ago.

I figured I would start at the beginning of the book and work my way to the back. I started following step-by-step directions on my computer to build a fictitious site. I discovered that the directions are not complete and I have to struggle to figure out what I am missing. This happened too many times. The author also assigns names to sections, categories and articles and then shows these same elements in a screen capture or in a list and they have a different name. The result was that it added unwelcome stress to a challenging process.

Amusingly, he quotes author Steve Krug from his book, "Don't Make Me Think": "If there's a major discrepancy between the link name and the page name, my trust in the site will diminish". My trust in this book and author are gone. I have moved on to another book.

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Editorial Review :

Critical for converting XML documents, and extremely versatile, the XSLT language nevertheless has complexities that can be daunting. The XSLT Cookbook is a collection of hundreds of solutions to problems that Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) developers regularly face. The recipes range from simple string-manipulation and mathematical processing to more complex topics like extending XSLT, testing and debugging XSLT stylesheets, and graphics creation with SVG. Recipes can be run directly or tweaked to fit your particular application's needs more precisely. The XSLT Cookbook provides an ideal companion both for developers still figuring out XSLT's template-based approach who want to learn by example, and for developers who know XSLT and want a collection of quickly reusable recipes. Each recipe walks through a problem and a solution, with explanations of the choices made and techniques used in creating that solution, and many recipes include alternate solutions and explore issues like convenience and performance. Among the variety of XSLT books now available, none has the explicit solution-oriented approach of this Cookbook.

Customer Review :

Truth in Advertising

Having twenty years of experience in programming, but being a novice with XSL, I needed help on a project. I purchased this book for its title, hoping to gleam examples that may assist with what I needed. I was not disappointed! This book is filled with example XSL transformation code! But, buyer beware! This book is for developers with knowledge of XSLT. If you need to learn the language, then purchase the XSLT for Dummies book, it is quite competent in it's content. (I did.) But for what the title indicates it is, then it is a fantastic purchase! I highly recommend this book, as it saved me through the project I was assigned.

Rating :

Excellent reference book

Excellent reference book for what I need to do. I learn XSLT in a hard way by myself with no aware of existence of this great book. I found code sniped on internet, this book is time saver with lots of great examples with practical use. The review before this review was dated 2008, I guess XSLT is not hot any more, eh? At least this is not popular technology.

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Better Than The Internet

While much of the examples can be gleamed from the internet, they are organized and indexed very usefully here.

I do very little XSLT, and this book has saved me countless hours of research and development.

Note that this book is not for beginners. And that makes it even better.

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XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano

This book is a real eye-opener about what and how can be done with XSLT. It is a great Cookbook with a huge variety of extremely useful solutions for various problems.
Viktor Melekhine


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For Experienced XLST users, as a reference and to get ideas.

This book is for the experienced XSLT developer. It will provide many, many code samples right from the beginning. I purchased this book thinking I can learn XSLT but, this book is not for the beginner. With that, I am not saying you should not purchase it. What I am saying is that I found a very good companion book: XSLT FOR DUMMIES. Believe it or not, this was my first for dummies book. Don't let the title fool you, this is a great first book to understand XSLT. I think the cookbook will start you where the dummies book ends but with a very different approach: To give you ideas. From the dummies book, you will understand what XPath and other key topics which you will already need to understand for the cookbook. For example, the cookbook goes right to covering XPATH in chapter one but assumes you know what and how it works. I hope this review will help everyone understand what this book will do for you and the correct approach in using it.

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