Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide

by Eric Tiggeler

Overview

Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide is written for beginners to website design. By the end of the book you will have built a complete custom content managed website, and be ready to build any kind of website.

Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are bolstered by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! website.

The Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Completely updated from the first book, real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich websites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. This book thoroughly covers the concepts behind the software and creates a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do - it's about what you can do using Joomla!.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849517904
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	03/26/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Eric Tiggeler is author of the Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide and has written several Dutch books on Joomla!, all of which got excellent reviews. He's also written a successful Dutch guide to the Drupal 7 CMS. Eric writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites.

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. 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 http://www.erictiggeler.nl (in Dutch) and http://www.joomm.net (in English).