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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

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

B. Creating a Multilingual Site

C. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Let's begin by downloading the current version of Joomla.

Point your browser to www.joomla.org. On the home page, click on the Download button.
You'll be taken to the download page. Select the latest release. Make sure that you download the full package (the other versions are upgrades for existing Joomla installations).
The default download file is a ZIP file. Download this file to your hard drive.
Unpack the compressed file to a folder on your hard drive. If you don't have a software program to unpack files, check out http://www.7-zip.org for an open source file extraction program.

You've downloaded and extracted the Joomla software files. All files required to install Joomla are now stored in a folder on your computer.