Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, authorized guide to template design, development, and customization with Joomla!. Packed with examples, this clear, concise, practical text covers everything from beginning-level skills to power techniques-even creating new HTML5-native mobile views, today’s most exciting new Joomla! capability. Joomla! Templates will be invaluable for every professional web designer and developer who uses Joomla!, for advanced nonprofessional users, and for less experienced users who want to customize their own sites instead of paying others to do it.
Internationally renowned Joomla! expert Angie Radtke brings together essential knowledge about usability, CSS, information architecture, PHP, JavaScript, accessibility, HTML5, and more. Using concrete examples, Radtke guides you through applying these technologies and best practices to construct and deploy world-class site templates. You’ll walk through every key technical option, fully understanding the internal interactions that control Joomla! template behavior. Radtke concludes by walking you step-by-step through a complete workshop project: transforming a template created in Photoshop into a working Joomla! template.
Joomla! Templates will be invaluable for every professional web designer and developer who uses Joomla!, for advanced nonprofessional users, and for less experienced users who want to customize their own sites instead of paying others to do it. Download eBook Free »
Learn how to create a search engine-optimized Joomla! website.
Packed full of tips to help you develop an appropriate SEO strategy.
Discover the right configurations and extensions for SEO purposes.
Joomla! Search Engine Optimization
Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process and techniques by which you optmize the content and style of your site in order to induce more people to view it.
Joomla! Search Engine Optimization will then show you, by finding the right combination of extensions, how to supercharge your site. You will also be given a guided tour of key SEO services, like Google and Bing Webmaster, in order to implement a progressive and effective link building campaign. You will then learn key expert tips and tricks to enable you to build SEO-effective content which will take your site from invisible to unmissable with little effort. Download eBook Free »
Step by step approach to build efficient mobile websites with Joomla!
Learn everything from organizing your content to completely changing the site’s look and feel
Friendly, clear instructions and explanations enriched with the necessary screenshots
Joomla! Mobile Development Beginner’s Guide
Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it’s a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics with Joomla! and build a mobile website that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive mobile web sites that perfectly fit your needs.
Joomla! Mobile Development Beginner’s Guide: This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! for mobile, helping you to create professional and good-looking websites, irrespective of whether you want to create a full-featured company or a club website or build a personal blog site.
The Joomla! Mobile Development Beginner’s Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and then to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!’s powerful features to create websites for mobile devices. This book will guide you through the complexities of implementing add-ons, components, modules, and plugins in Joomla! for mobile-friendly websites. Download eBook Free »
Create a Joomla! website in an hour with the help of easy-to-follow steps and screenshots.
Go beyond a typical Joomla! site to make a website that meets your specific needs.
Learn how to secure, administrate, and fill your site with content.
Update to the popular Joomla! 1.5 Beginner’s Guide by Eric Tiggeler.
Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide
The Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!’s powerful features. Completely updated from the first book, real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich websites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. This book thoroughly covers the concepts behind the software and creates a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do – it’s about what you can do using Joomla!. Download eBook Free »
Give a unique look and feel to your VirtueMart e-Commerce store
Thorough discussion of template structure, available fields, and customization possibilities
More than 50 real-world exercises that can be directly adapted to your store
A comprehensive reference to all templates in the VirtueMart default theme including usage of each template and all available fields
Integrate with existing Joomla! plugins and JavaScript frameworks
A step-by-step comprehensive guide to customizing Joomla! VirtueMart templates and themes with the necessary screenshots and explained code
In Detail
VirtueMart is the best shopping cart solution around for the Joomla! CMS. A VirtueMart template is a Joomla! template that is designed to create the overall look of a store. It puts in things such as a shopping cart bar, more shop-like graphics, more readable colors, and so on. A VirtueMart theme only impacts the area of the site actually controlled by the VirtueMart component. Themes work inside the overall framework. Applying custom templates and themes to give a unique look and feel to your VirtueMart web store will really attract customers! This book will guide you to build VirtueMart custom themes and templates.
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