You're reading from Joomla! 4 Masterclass A practitioner's guide to building rich and modern websites using the brand-new features of Joomla 4

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238975

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Joomla

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Luca Marzo

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Joomla! Out of the Box

2. Chapter 1: A Powerful and Extensible Core FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How to Manage Content

4. Chapter 3: Advanced Content Management

5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Flexibility of Modules

6. Chapter 5: Building Your Site Structure: the Menu System

7. Chapter 6: Managing Users and Their Permissions

8. Part 2: Advanced Features

9. Chapter 7: SEO at Its Best

10. Chapter 8: One Site, Multiple Languages

11. Chapter 9: Planning Operations with Scheduled Tasks

12. Chapter 10: Tailored Communication with Mail Templates

13. Chapter 11: Command-Line Interface

14. Part 3: Styling and Securing Your Website

15. Chapter 12: Styling Your Website – Templates

16. Chapter 13: Customize Everything with Overrides

17. Chapter 14: Child Templates

18. Chapter 15: Template Frameworks

19. Chapter 16: Advanced Features – Access and Security

20. Part 4: Case Studies

21. Chapter 17: Case Study – A Corporate Website in Joomla

22. Chapter 18: Case Study – Online Academy with Joomla

23. Chapter 19: Case Study – A B&B Booking System with Joomla

24. Index

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Introduction

In this case study, we’ll analyze the experience of Host.it, an Italian hosting service provider that was an early adopter of Joomla 4 for its corporate website.

Host.it has been involved with Joomla since its inception – in fact, it acted as a supporter and sponsor of the Italian Joomla community, providing it with free hosting infrastructure, co-organizing JoomlaDay Italy, and sponsoring localization activities.

The company offered a Joomla-compatible hosting service when other major hosting companies didn’t, and this allowed it to conquer an important market share among Joomla hosting services.

The Host.it website was originally built in 2017 during the company rebranding, and it was released as a monolith Java application that included the company Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, the web shop, the client panel, and the public website. This was the natural choice since the core systems of the company were developed using Java...