Joomla! 1.5x Customization Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs : Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs.

Create and customize a professional Joomla! site that suits your business requirements.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chapman, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Joomla! 1.5x Customization; Joomla! 1.5x Customization; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. The Skills Required to Customize Joomla!; The architecture of the Internet; HTML; CSS; Server-side scripting and PHP; MVC programming and PHP; Client-side scripting and JavaScript; Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX); JavaScript frameworks-Mootools and jQuery; Database work with MySQL and SQL; Summary.
  • 2. Setting Up Our EnvironmentTypes of tools; File transfers; Code editing; Image editing; Web browsing; Database administration; Storing code; Checkout; Update; Commit; Add; Delete; Revert; Ignore; Building locally; Practical-picking our tools; Practical-using our tools; Inspect Element; Summary; 3. Planning Our Site; Why is it so important to plan?; The Frankensite effect; No one can hit a target they don't have; How to plan; Mission; Practical-write our own mission statement; Monetization; Practical-decide our monetization model; Goals; Practical-set our goals.
  • Licenses, encryption, and commercialismLicenses; Open source; Proprietary; Encryption; Commercialism; Using the Joomla! Extensions Directory and Google; Choosing extensions from our goals; Practical-turning goals into extensions; Display audio and video; Submit pictures of customers' own house to a public gallery; Ask questions to each other and discuss topics; Grow an income from ad-supported free members and subscriptions; Customer comments on our articles; Ability to collect, moderate, and display user testimonials; Convert default web page URLs to human-readable links.
  • Essential extensionsNinjaXplorer; JoomlaPack; JCE; EasySQL; Summary; 4. Installing and Configuring Extensions; Configuring Joomla!; Core extensions; Components; Modules; Plugins; Global Configuration; Configuring content sections and categories; Clearing out the sample content; Creating sections; Creating categories; ; ; Buying in Japan; Renting in Japan; General Housing Matters; Configuring extensions; AEC; Subscription plans; Payment gateways; General Configuration; Customization; Micro Integrations; Authentication plugins; PayPal; Creating subscription plans; Joo!BB; Configuring boards.
  • Overall Configuration of Joo!BBConfiguration details; Board settings; Latest post settings; Feed settings; Attachments; View settings; View footer settings; Registration User Settings Defaults; Avatar settings; Captcha settings;!JoomlaComment; General; Security; Posting; Layout; Ninja Custom Gallery; Categories; Custom fields; Buildings; Gardens; Interior; Galleries; Settings; sh404SEF; Other extensions; Summary; 5. Installing and Modifying Templates; Finding a template; Choosing a template; XHTML and CSS validation; Template structure; Extra features; Browser compatibility; Typography.