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This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Joomla!. If you've never used Joomla!, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Joomla! based web site fast. You don't have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions using this book and Joomla! This book will guide through every step. This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors and marketing professionals who want develop a fully featured web presence in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive web site.
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Building Websites with Joomla! A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast Hagen Graf BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Building Websites with Joomla! A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast Copyright © 2006 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, Packt Publishing, nor its dealers or distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: February 2006 Production Reference: 3200206 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK. ISBN 1-904811-94-9 www.packtpub.com Cover Design by www.visionwt.com Copyright © 2005 by Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH, München. First published in the German language under the title "Joomla!" by Addison-Wesley, an imprint of Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH, München. Credits Authors Hagen Graff Proofreader Chris Smith Technical Editor Nanda Padmanabhan Production Coordinator Manjiri Nadkarni Editorial Manager Dipali Chittar Cover Designer Helen Wood Indexer Abhishek Shirodkar About the Authors Hagen Graff was born in July 1964. Born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany, his first contact with a computer was in the late seventies with a Radioshack TRS 80. As a salesperson, he organized his customers' data by programming suitable applications. This gave him a big advantage over other salesmen. With the intention of honing his skills, he joined evening courses in programming and became a programmer. Nowadays he works in his wife's consulting company as a trainer, consultant, and programmer (http://alternative-unternehmensberatung.de). Hagen Graf has published three other books in German, about the Apache web server, about security problems in Windows XP, and about Mambo. Since 2001, he has been engaged in a nonprofit e-learning community called "machm-it.org e.V.", as well as in several national and international projects. All the projects are related to content management, community building, and harnessing the power of social soft