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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned much about the power of Joomla templates. A Joomla template is a set of files that contain the HTML and CSS code that defines what your web page looks like. Joomla comes with a few different templates. Most templates have built-in options that allow you to tweak their look and behavior.

If you want a different layout, there are tons of templates you can download from the web, and a good many of them are available for free. Customizing an existing template is a great way to personalize the look and feel of the website. Joomla's Template Manager allows you to change the CSS styles that the template uses, for example, when you want to change the color scheme or replace the default logo image.

If you need a customized template for your site, you can consider either building your own template from the ground up or using a template framework as a base for your own design.

As far as content, functionality, and looks are concerned, your site is about finished...

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