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Joomla! Template Design: Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide: A complete guide for web designers to all aspects ... Joomla! 1.0.8 PHP Content Management System |  | Author: Tessa Blakeley Silver
Publisher: Packt Publishing
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Product Description
A complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique website templates for the free Joomla! 1.0.8 PHP Content Management System - Create Joomla! Templates for your sites
- Debug, validate, and package your templates
- Tips for tweaking existing templates
In Detail Joomla! is a free, award-winning content management system written in PHP that allows users to easily publish their content on the World Wide Web and intranets. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. The Joomla! template is a series of files within the Joomla! CMS that control the presentation of the content. The template is the basic foundation design for viewing your Joomla! website. To produce the effect of a "complete" website, the template works hand in hand with the content stored in the Joomla! databases. This book will help you build templates for your Joomla! site. It will help you understand the options in dealing with them. It will help you learn about how to use multiple templates in the same site. It will advise you on creating beautiful Joomla! designs, and using CSS rather than tables in your templates. The book guides you on using animations and other effects in Joomla! templates and provides you with tricks for tweaking existing templates. What you will learn from this book? - Set up a basic workflow for Joomla! template design
- Work on layouts for your template
- Debug and validate your template code
- Use the W3C's XHTML and CSS validation tools
- Package up your finished template into a working ZIP file
- Know the standard XHTML markup and CSS classes for Joomla!
- Create Suckerfish drop-down menus
- Get Flash content quickly into your Joomla! site
- Create interactive and dynamic forms in your Joomla! site
- Download and install Joomla! Extensions for your Joomla! site
- Use the wrapper (Wrapper Menu Item) for fully working Ajax applications
Approach This book covers the "how-tos" of creating templates for Joomla. There is also advice about what works and what to consider when working with your Joomla! template. Who this book is written for? This book is aimed at web designers who want to create their own unique templates for Joomla!. Readers should have basic knowledge of Joomla! (which can be obtained by working through Building Websites with Joomla!) and also some knowledge of CSS and HTML, and using Dreamweaver for coding purposes.
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 The best (only!) Joomla book worth getting August 21, 2008
April Greenberg
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the best and really the ONLY book out there for Joomla. Now, I have to admit that I don't really like Joomla. However, I'm a web designer and occasionally I have to create or work on sites in Joomla anyway.
At first, I bought another Joomla book but all it did was left me confused. It didn't help me and didn't talk at all about fixing up a template to reflect a client's logo and branding which is what I usually need to know. And forget about online documentation for Joomla; it's just not out there. And the interface is not intuitive at all, so you'd think documentation would be a given.
But THIS book is completely awesome and it does what it says it does. The author showed me clearly how to make a Joomla site look the way I need it to look AND in the process, she explained many things about Joomla to me that made no sense at all to me before (for example, why Joomla does some of the things it does, what parts of it spit out html tables and what parts I can really control with my template CSS, etc). Also, the author explained how to make multi-level unordered menu items work (I had previously torn my hair out over wondering why that didn't work in Joomla) -- turns out you need to install a module.
And even beyond Jooma itself, I also picked up quite a bit on how to properly implement web standards and use CSS, which I'd been needing to brush up on. This book has actually helped me with many aspects of my job in general, not just making a Joomla template!
I still don't completely understand why people choose to use Joomla, as I still find the admin interface to be confusing and badly worded, but as long as people use it, they'll need designs for it This book is the only thing out there that makes this possible. I totally recommend it.
Jooma! Template Design September 25, 2008
R. Pettway (New York, NY)
The style of the book worked very well for me. It was a great balance of solid instructions and visual examples that made it very easy to understand and follow. I have other books by this author and highly recommend for the novice to those more advanced who may need a refresher.
Kudos to the author and Amazon for carrying this selection!
R. Pettway
 Best intro to Joomla templating August 24, 2008
Charles Foxgrover (Brooklyn, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have 3 books on Joomla and this is the only book that truly helped me through getting an original design (from another party) into one of my Joomla sites. I run three sites with Joomla, all for non-profit organizations and therefore have to do my work on night and weekends. I'm a web professional and know the concepts of building sites but I'm a manager and don't build sites everyday for a living. This book got me through the template basics in way that allowed me to implement an original design that had no references to typical Joomla page layout areas, in a couple of days. By taking you through the process of designing a Joomla template from scratch I was finally able to understand how a web page was generated by Joomla and how I could eliminate much of the "noise" in the default setup. It's possible that a web beginner may find some things difficult and perhaps a comprehensive description of the Joomla content engine will not be found but I heartily recommend this book if you need a jump start of creating templates for Joomla.
Valuable info October 31, 2008
Kevin Morrison (USA Northwest)
The only regret I have is that I need information on Joomla 1.5 not 1.0.8. How ever much of the information in this book can be used and I found the book well written and in plain English. Hope to see an update for 1.5 from this author, I will purchase immediately!
 It's good but a little dated November 9, 2009
Rob Livingston
It doesn't take long for a computer book to become dated and this one is no different. It's still a good book though. I've read a few Joomla books now and it seems each has something to offer that the others don't have. The other Joomla books I have will become dated in a few months when version 1.6 comes out. Oh, well!
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