Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide

Joomla! is the free and easy way to create websites, and this book is written for absolute beginners who want to learn the basics and go beyond. Packed with helpful screenshots and crystal clear instructions.

• Create a Joomla! website in an hour with the help of easy-to-follow steps and screenshots.
• Go beyond a typical Joomla! site to make a website that meets your specific needs.
• Learn how to secure, administrate, and fill your site with content.
• Update to the popular Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide by Eric Tiggeler.

In Detail

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web- sites that perfectly fit your needs.

Completely updated for Joomla! 2.5, this practical guide teaches you how to create professional, appealing and extendable websites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club website or build a personal blog site.

The Joomla! Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Completely updated from the first book, real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich websites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. This book thoroughly covers the concepts behind the software and creates a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do – it's about what you can do using Joomla!.

What you will learn from this book

• Create a feature-rich site that's easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Design attractive home pages that provide a quick overview of the site's contents and direct people to the content they could be interested in
• Engage your web visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments
• Design clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks
• Make full use of templates to get your site to look just right, tweaking the CSS and customizing templates using your own logo, fonts, and colors
• Extend Joomla!'s capabilities by finding and utilizing must-have extensions that perfectly meet your needs
• Increase your site's visibility for search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques
• Secure your site from hackers and potential threats using easy-to-follow techniques

Approach

Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are bolstered by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! website.

Who this book is written for

This book is written for beginners to website design. By the end of the book you will have built a complete custom content managed website, and be ready to build any kind of website.

Joomla! 是一個免費且簡單的建立網站的方式，這本書是為了絕對初學者而寫，想要學習基礎並超越。內容豐富，並附有有用的截圖和清晰的指示。

• 透過易於跟隨的步驟和截圖，在一小時內建立一個 Joomla! 網站。


• 超越一個典型的 Joomla! 網站，打造符合您特定需求的網站。


• 學習如何保護、管理和填充您的網站內容。


• 更新至 Eric Tiggeler 撰寫的熱門書籍《Joomla! 1.5 入門指南》。

詳細內容

Joomla! 是最受歡迎的開源內容管理系統之一，由全球用戶社群積極開發和支援。儘管它是一個有趣且功能豐富的工具，但要超越基礎並建立符合您需求的網站可能會有挑戰性。使用本書，您可以創建完全符合您需求的動態、互動式網站。

這本實用指南完全更新至 Joomla! 2.5，教您如何創建專業、吸引人且可擴展的網站，無論您是想建立一個功能完整的公司或俱樂部網站，還是建立個人部落格網站。

Joomla! 入門指南幫助初學者快速入門，並超越基礎，充分利用 Joomla! 強大的功能。這本書從第一本書開始完全更新，實例和教程將激發您的想像力，並展示任何開發人員使用 Joomla! 可以實現的專業、現代、功能豐富的網站。本書徹底介紹了軟體背後的概念，並創建了一個清晰的軟體運作圖像。本書不是關於 Joomla! 能做什麼 - 而是關於您使用 Joomla! 可以做什麼。

您將從本書中學到什麼

• 創建功能豐富的網站，無需學習 HTML 和層疊樣式表（CSS）等網頁語言，並且易於擴展、自定義和維護


• 設計吸引人的首頁，提供網站內容的快速概覽，並引導人們前往他們可能感興趣的內容


• 通過讓訪問者註冊、添加內容和留下評論，吸引您的網站訪問者並將他們轉化為活躍用戶


• 使用菜單、子菜單和文本超鏈接設計清晰且易於導航的網站


• 充分利用模板，使您的網站看起來完美無缺，通過調整 CSS 和自定義模板使用您自己的標誌、字體和顏色


• 通過尋找並使用完全滿足您需求的必備擴展，擴展 Joomla! 的功能


• 應用高效的搜索引擎優化（SEO）技巧，提高您的網站在搜索引擎中的可見性


• 使用易於跟隨的技巧，保護您的網站免受駭客和潛在威脅

方法

本書以快節奏、友好且引人入勝的方式撰寫，旨在作為您的指南和導師放在電腦旁邊。逐步教程輔以對您所做的事情背後原理的解釋。您將迅速掌握所需的技能、提示和技巧，建立成功的 Joomla! 網站。

本書適合對象

本書適合網站設計初學者。通過本書，您將建立一個完整的自定義內容管理網站，並準備好建立任何類型的網站。