Friday 10 September

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The Project

Joomla! Books

If you are having difficulty managing your Joomla! website, the following Joomla! books will help you get a handle on it. We also use these books and recommend them to you.

Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

Tracey Porst

Keep your web site up-to-date and maintain content and users with ease:

Add, edit, and manage content, from articles and text to images, audio, and video
Quickly master the administration area of your new web site and make yourself familiar with the navigation and how the content is organized
Get to grips with managing users, slaying spam, and other activities that will help you maintain a content-rich site
In-depth coverage for content administrators and end users of a Joomla! site with plenty of practical, working examples and clear explanations

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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

Eric Tiggeler

Build and maintain impressive user-friendly web sites the fast and easy way with Joomla! 1.5

Create a web site that meets real-life requirements by following the creation of an example site with the help of easy-to-follow steps and ample screenshots.
Practice all the Joomla! skills from organizing your content to completely changing the site's looks and feel
Go beyond a typical Joomla! site to make the site meet your specific needs
Create your own Joomla! template
Get to grips with inspiring examples and best practices and implement them to enhance your Joomla! site

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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

Hagen Graf

Learn Joomla! 1.5 features
Install and customize Joomla! 1.5
Configure Joomla! administration
Create your own Joomla! templates
Extend Joomla! with new components, modules, and plug-ins

Click here to view more

Joomla! Cash

Brandon Dawson , Tom Canavan

Money-making weapons for your Joomla! website

Learn to set up a cash-generating Joomla! website
Learn to implement a shopping cart on Joomla!
How to run an affiliate program from your site
Set up streams of income using Joomla!
Gain valuable search-engine ranking knowledge

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Joomla! Template Design: Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide

Tessa Blakeley Silver

A complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique
website templates for the free Joomla! 1.0.8 PHP Content Management System

Create Joomla! Templates for your sites
Debug, validate, and package your templates
Tips for tweaking existing templates

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Joomla! Accessibility

Joshue O Connor

A quick guide to creating accessible websites with Joomla!

Understand what accessibility really means and why it’s important
Ensure that content editors and writers publish accessible articles
Create accessible Joomla! Templates
Understand Assistive Technology (AT) and the needs of people with disabilities

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Joomla! Web Security

Tom Canavan

Secure your Joomla! website from common security threats with this easy-to-use guide

Learn how to secure your Joomla! websites
Real-world tools to protect against hacks on your site
Implement disaster recovery features
Set up SSL on your site
Covers Joomla! 1.0 as well as 1.5

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Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart

Suhreed Sarkar

Build feature-rich online stores with Joomla! 1.0/1.5 and VirtueMart 1.1.x

Build your own e-commerce web site from scratch by adding features step-by-step to an example e-commerce web site
Configure the shop, build product catalogues, configure user registration settings for VirtueMart to take orders from around the world
Manage customers, orders, and a variety of currencies to provide the best customer service
Handle shipping in all situations and deal with sales tax rules
Covers customization of site look and feel and localization of VirtueMart

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Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development

Joseph L. LeBlanc

A practical tutorial for creating your first Joomla! 1.5 extensions with PHP, written and tested against the final release of Joomla! 1.5

Program your own Joomla! extensions
Master Model-View-Controller design
Build configurable site modules to show information on every page
Use built-in HTML and JavaScript functions

Click here to view more

Joomla! runs on any platform including Windows, most flavours of Linux, several Unix versions, and the Apple OS/X platform. Joomla! depends on PHP and the MySQL database to deliver dynamic content.

The minimum requirements are:

Apache 1.x, 2.x and higher
PHP 4.3 and higher
MySQL 3.23 and higher

It will also run on alternative server platforms such as Windows IIS - provided they support PHP and MySQL - but these require additional configuration in order for the Joomla! core package to be successful installed and operated.

Support

Support for the Joomla! CMS can be found on several places. The best place to start would be the official Help Site. Here you can help yourself to the information that is regularly published and updated as Joomla! develops. There is much more to come too!

Of course you should not forget the Help System of the CMS itself. On the topmenu in the Back-end Control panel you find the Help button which will provide you with lots of explanation on features.

Another great place would of course be the Forum . On the Joomla! Forum you can find help and support from Community members as well as from Joomla! Core members and Working Group members. The forum contains a lot of information, FAQ's, just about anything you are looking for in terms of support.

Two other resources for Support are the Joomla! Developer Network (JDN) and the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED). The Developer Network for example provides lots of technical information for the experienced Developer as well as those new to Joomla! and development work in general. The JED whilst not a support site in the strictest sense has many of the Extensions that you will need as you develop your own Web site.

The Joomla! Core members are regularly posting their blog reports about several topics such as programming techniques used in Joomla!, Security, Events and more. You can even subscribe to get notified by e-mail when a new blog post is made!

Documentation

Joomla! Documentation can of course be found on the Help Site. You can find information such as an Installation Guide, User and Administrator manuals, Frequently Asked Questions and a lot more. The User Documentation Team are the guardians of the documentation relating to the practical use of Joomla!. The Developer Documentation Team are the stalwarts behind detailing how Joomla! works from the ground up and how you can develop your own Extensions and Templates and much more.

Other than the documentation provided by the Joomla! Documentation Work Groups there are also books written about Joomla! You can find a listing of these books in the Joomla! Bookshelf .

Want to help?

If you want to help in the documentation project for Joomla! then please post your details on the User Documentation Forum or the Developer Documentation Forum

This Web site is powered by Joomla! The software and default templates on which it runs are Copyright 2005-2007 Open Source Matters. All other content and data, including data entered into this Web site and templates added after installation, are copyrighted by their respective copyright owners.

If you want to distribute, copy, or modify Joomla!, you are welcome to do so under the terms of the GNU General Public License. If you are unfamiliar with this license, you might want to read 'How To Apply These Terms To Your Program' and the 'GNU General Public License FAQ'.

Joomla! documentation is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike License 2.5 or by the specific license of their respective copyright owners.

The Joomla! licence has always been GPL.