Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites
Ron Severdia
Language: English
Pages: 386
ISBN: 0596804946
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Why use Joomla? Because with Joomla you don't need to have any technical expertise or web design experience to create effective websites and web apps. Whether you're creating your first website or building a multi-function site for a client, this book provides straightforward, hands-on instruction that makes it easy to learn this open source web content management system.
Written by members of the Joomla Leadership Team, Using Joomla helps newcomers quickly learn the basics, while developers with Joomla experience will pick up best practices for building more sophisticated websites. You'll also find more than a dozen ways to extend the functionality of existing Joomla-built websites. Start building with Joomla in minutes!
- Get guidelines for planning, creating, and organizing your content
- Understand how to create and use Joomla templates to build websites quickly
- Explore how components, modules, and plug-ins can extend your site's functionality
- Increase your site ranking by using Joomla best practices
- Use built-in components such as banners, news feeds, polls, search, and web links
- Set up an online store, calendar, photo gallery, discussion forum, and more
- Learn important security precautions to safeguard your site
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Provides a way for site visitors to rate the article they are viewing. This can be seen toward the top of Figure 10-3. Figure 10-3. Content–Page Navigation and Content–Rating Content–Email Cloaking Spammers use spambots to crawl the Internet looking for email addresses. If you can view the source code on your current site and read your email address in plain text, so can spambots. Joomla uses the Email Cloaking plug-in to hide your email address using JavaScript. This way, the browser
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