What this book covers
Chapter 1, A New and Easy Way to Build Websites, will help you learn why you want to use Joomla! to create an advanced, cool-looking site that's easy to expand, customize, and maintain.
Chapter 2, Getting Joomla! Up and Running, will show you how to install Joomla! on your own computer or on a web server and how to create a sample site.
Chapter 3, First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla!, will familiarize you with the basic concepts of Joomla!, the administrative interface, and the principles of a website constructed out of building blocks.
Chapter 4, Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour, will make you face a real-life challenge of using Joomla! to build a basic but expandable website in less time. You'll customize a default sample site of Joomla! to fit your needs, adding content and menu links and changing the site's look and feel.
Chapter 5, Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively, will help you design a clear, expandable, and manageable framework for your content. Using a structure of categories and tags, you will make it easy for the users to add and find information on your site.
Chapter 6, Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles, will help you to create attractive content pages, and you'll learn about different ways to add images and tweak the page layout.
Chapter 7, Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages, shows you how to create a home page and overview pages to entice visitors to actually read all your valuable content.
Chapter 8, Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus, will discuss how you can help visitors to find what they want by designing clear and straightforward navigation through menus.
Chapter 9, Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute, will show you how to enable users to log in and allow them to create content and manage a website.
Chapter 10, Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla!, will explain how to extend the capabilities of Joomla! using all sorts of extensions, such as using an image gallery to display pictures attractively, automatically showing article teasers on the home page, or enhancing your workspace by installing a more powerful content editor.
Chapter 11, Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates, will show you how templates can give your site a fresh look and feel and how you can customize templates to create an individual look, different from a typical Joomla! site.
Chapter 12, Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques, will show you how to increase your site's visibility for search engines by applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, such as creating friendly URLs.
Appendix A, Keeping the Site Secure, will explore some simple, logical steps you can take to safeguard your site from hackers or data loss.
Appendix B, Creating a Multilingual Site, will walk you through the series of steps involved in creating a bilingual website using the multilingual capabilities built in Joomla!.
Appendix C, Pop Quiz Answers, contains answers to the multiple choice pop quizzes you will find throughout the book.
