Build and maintain impressive Web sites user-friendly, fast and easy with Joomla! 1.5 Creating a website that meets the requirements of real life by following the example of creating a site with the help of easy to follow steps and screenshots sufficient practice of all Joomla! site to create a site that meets your specific needs Get to grips with inspiring examples and best practices and apply them to improve Joomla! Using this book, you can create dynamic, interactive web site that perfectly suits your needs. This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional web sites and handsome, if you want to make a full-featured enterprise club or website or build a personal blog site. Joomla! What you will learn from this book Create feature-rich site that is easy to develop, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) design an attractive home page that gives a brief overview the contents of the site and direct people to content they may be interested in web visitors engage you and turn them into active users by allowing them to register, add content, navigation design and leave comments clear and easy to use menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks Making full use of templates to get your site looks right, tweaking the CSS and change the template use your own logo, fonts, and colors Extend Joomla! 'S ability to seek and take advantage of the must-have extensions that perfectly meets your needs Increase your site's visibility to search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques Secure your site from hackers and potential threats by using easy to follow techniques Chapter 1: Introduction: New and Easy How to Build Your Website - In this chapter you will learn why you want to use Joomla:! To create a cool, feature-rich site that is easy to develop, customize, and maintain. Chapter 2: Installation: Getting the Joomla! interface and the principles of a website that is built out of the building blocks'. Chapter 4: Web Building Basics: Create a Website in Time - Face a Real-Life Challenge - In this chapter you will be using Joomla! to build a web site quick basic but expandable - customize Joomla! 'S default sample site to suit your needs, add content, links, menus, and change the look and feel. Chapter 5: Small Site, Great Site: Managing Your Content Effectively - Make it easy to add and find information on your site: design, clearly extended, managed to structure your content. Chapter 6: Creating Killer Content: Adding and Editing Articles - In this chapter you will learn to create page content that is interesting and easy to read, and you will learn some ways to tweak the page layout. Chapter 7: Welcoming Your Visitors: Create attractive Home Page Home and Summary of Changes - If you have content you organize, you will create a home page and summary page to attract visitors to actually read all your valuable content. Chapter 8: Visitors Help You Find What They Want: Managing Menu - In this chapter, you will practice designing clear and easy navigation through menus. How you can help visitors to find what they want easily? Chapter 9: Site Opens: Enables Users to Contribute and Interact - you will learn how to allow users to log in and allow them to create and manage website content. In this case, the chapter you will learn how to extend Joomla! - 'S ability to use all sorts of extensions: use image gallery for interesting displays the image, automatically display the teaser article in the yard, or improve your job easier by putting the content editor. Chapter 11: Creating Interesting Design: Working with Templates - Template will give your site a fresh look and feel - and makes it easy to create an individual look, different from the "normal" Joomla! You will learn how to install and customize the template. Chapter 12: Attract Search Engine Traffic - This chapter shows you how to improve your site's visibility to search engines implement Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, such as creating friendly URLs. Appendix - Keeping Secure Site - In this chapter you will learn simple, common sense steps dapat you do to keep your site safe from hackers. Approach Written in a fast paced yet friendly approach and attractive, this guide Beginner Packt is designed to be placed beside the computer as your guide and mentor to meet the challenges of building real world web. web site with practical examples that help you to learn by experimentation and play. Who is this book written for If you want to build and maintain web sendirisitus, Joomla! It helps you build skills and knowledge you may have on a web site but even if you're new to this topic, you will not have difficulty understanding instructions and explanations clear and friendly.