The Joomla! 1.5 Beginners Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works.

What you will learn from this book

• Create a feature-rich site that's easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages   such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Design attractive home pages that provide a quick overview of the site's contents and direct people to the content they could be interested in
• Engage your web visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments
• Design clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks
• Make full use of templates to get your site to look just right, tweaking the CSS and customizing templates using your own logo, fonts, and colors
• Extend Joomla!'s capabilities by finding and utilizing must-have extensions that perfectly meet your needs
• Increase your site's visibility for search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques
• Secure your site from hackers and potential threats using easy-to-follow techniques

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This practical guide book will help you create rich media websites built using the Joomla! Content Management System.

The Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia book provides you with valuable information, techniques, and the discipline and knowledge to utilize Multimedia effectively within your website. It takes you beyond the basics of Joomla! and helps to take full advantage this powerful web content management software, to deliver media-rich web content.

JoomlaChicago is pleased to announce its plans to host the first ever JoomlaEXPO on May 16, 2008 at the elegant Renaissance Chicago O'Hare Suites Hotel.  The event will focus strongly on technical education, of course, but will also address practical issues related to selection of Joomla! (vs. another CMS) and operation of Joomla! in a production environment.

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Joomla! Accessibility is a new book from Packt that helps readers create accessible websites with Joomla! Written by Joshue O Connor, Senior Accessibility Consultant with CFIT, this book is designed to help readers gain a deeper understanding of Joomla! and accessibility.

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