Book description
If you’re new to content management systems—or even new to building websites—this practical guide will get you up and running in no time. You don’t have to know much code, if any, to get started. Need to build a website quickly? Have a client that requires a powerful website with lots of compelling features? Ideal for web designers and developers alike, this updated edition takes you step-by-step through site creation with Joomla, with plenty of hands-on exercises along the way.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Overview
- 2. Planning Your Website
- 3. A Tour of the Administrator Panel
- 4. Setting Up the Basics of Your Website
- 5. Creating Content
- 6. Managing Media and Creating Galleries
- 7. Making Your Website Speak Multiple Languages
- 8. Starting a Blog
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9. Create and Share an Event Calendar
- Hands-On Exercise: Installing and Configuring JEvents
- Hands-On Exercise: Creating a Calendar
- Hands-On Exercise: Creating Event Categories
- Hands-On Exercise: Adding JEvents to the Menu
- Hands-On Exercise: Adding Events to JEvents
- Adding Events from the Frontend by Visitors/Registered Users
- Add a Module Showing Latest Events on Other Pages of the Site
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10. Creating Forms
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Contact Form with Contact Enhanced
- Hands-On Exercise: Installing Contact Enhanced
- Hands-On Exercise: Creating Beautiful Contact Pages with Forms
- Hands-On Exercise: Adding a Contact Form to the Menu
- Hands-On Exercise: Configuring Contact Enhanced
- Hands-On Exercise: Adding a Contact Form to an Article
- Hands-On Exercise: Add a Form Field to the Contact Form
- Hands-On Exercise: Adding Captcha to the Form
- Testing Your Contact Form
- Donation Form with RSForm Pro
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Contact Form with Contact Enhanced
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11. Building an Online Store
- Hands-On Exercise: Installing HikaShop
- Hands-On Exercise: Configuring HikaShop
- Hands-On Exercise: Setting Up Payments, Shipping, and Taxes
- Hands-On Exercise: Adding Categories, Products, and Attributes
- Adding the Shop to the Menu
- Adding HikaShop-Specific Modules
- Notes About Security, SSL, and PCI Compliance
- 12. Engaging and Keeping in Touch with Your Users
- 13. Solutions to Common Problems
- 14. Making Your Website Secure and Optimized
- A. How to Install Joomla
- B. Updating and Migrating Joomla
- C. Choosing the Right Extensions
- D. Developing for Joomla
- E. Tips and Tricks
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Using Joomla!, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449345396
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