Joomla Author - Barrie North

Joomla 1.5 - A User's Guide
Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website

Leading Joomla consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and more. You’ll find never-before-published Joomla tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise.

Experienced with Joomla? You’ll constantly turn to this book for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla 1.5 reference content.

Understand content management, what Joomla does, and how its components fit together
Build Joomla sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables
Create dynamic pages and effective Joomla navigation
Work with Joomla modules and components
Search engine optimization (SEO) for Joomla sites
Start-to-finish Joomla case studies: building a school website, a small business brochure site, and a blog
The most valuable Joomla extensions and add-ons: how to find them and use them

BARRIE NORTH has more than 15 years of Internet experience as a Web designer, plus over a decade of classroom teaching experience and curriculum development expertise. In 2005, he launched Compass Design, a Joomla consultant company specializing in Joomla Web design and SEO; and partnered to found Joomlashack, a leading provider of Joomla templates and customization services.

Barrie consults on Web marketing, search engine optimization, usability, and standards compliance for Joomla. A former member of the Joomla Design and Documentation Working Groups, he blogs about Joomla at compassdesigns.net.