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You're reading from Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783981502

Length 476 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Joomla

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Eric Tiggeler

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER

3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla!

4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour

5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively

6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles

7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages

8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus

9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute

10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla!

11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates

12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques

A. Keeping the Site Secure

Choosing a web host that meets your security requirements

B. Creating a Multilingual Site

C. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

What do you need to start?

To be able to install and run Joomla, you'll need hosting space and a few tools. Here's a full shopping list.

Hosting space

First of all, you'll need hosting space—a place on a web server where you can set up your site, making it accessible for anyone with Internet access. Your hosting account should support the PHP scripting language (as Joomla is written in PHP), it should support the type of database that Joomla uses, called MySQL, and it has to run the Apache server software. Specifically, the following are the system requirements for Joomla 3.x:

PHP 5.3.10 or higher: PHP is the scripting language that Joomla is written in. PHP 5.4 is recommended.
MySQL 5.1 or higher: The MySQL database is where Joomla stores its data (the contents of your site). The MySQL database should support the InnoDB storage engine (which is a technique to store and manage information in a database).
Apache 2.x or higher: Apache is the web server software that processes the PHP instructions...

You're reading from Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

What do you need to start?

Hosting space

Authors (1)

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