Joomla! 1.6 First Look

by Eric Tiggeler

Overview

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849513432
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	03/16/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Eric Tiggeler is author of the Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide! and has written two Dutch Joomla! guides, which all got excellent reviews. He writes tutorials for several computer magazines and for the Dutch Joomla! community website.Eric is fascinated by the Web as a powerful and creative means of communication – and by revolutionary software such as Joomla!, enabling anybody to create beautiful and user friendly websites.On a daily basis, Eric works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated with the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than ten Dutch books on writing and communication. His passion is making complex things easy to understand.Eric Tiggeler is married and has two daughters. He lives and works in Hilversum (the Netherlands). On the Web, you'll find him on www.schrijfgids.nl (in Dutch) and www.joomm.net (in English).