|
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 | 
 enlarge | Author: Hagen Graf
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $44.99
Buy New: $39.98
You Save: $5.01 (11%)
New (18) Used (6) from $39.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 55567
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 184719530X
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781847195302
ASIN: 184719530X
Publication Date: March 28, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews:
 HORRIBLE waste of money September 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
wow, with the exception of the moron reviewing a book by not reviewing it, all you guys are been way too generous. This book belongs in the aisle for the visually impaired (not meant in a mean way).
I bought this book after rave online reviews. It was a complete disappointment. There are 353pgs (w/o the index) the font is HUGE (i mean at least 16pt+ on regular font and 18pt+ on titles, no exaggeration, its regular edition) and most of the stuff this guy is writing about can be found in Joomla's website for FREE! docs.[...] I mean it seems like it was just copied, pasted and published. The whole book seem to be rushed and very poorly written.
There is a chapter about the beez template where the author invites the designer to explain her template. She spends a good chunk of her time telling you how she only had 1 week to write the chapter and how she only has one chapter to explain it to you and that she has a book where she explains it better. really? so i must read your crap and then go out to purchase another crap? crap.
There are SOO many shameless plugs, another designer giving you "bonus templates" but no information on how to get these said templates as well as "if you would like to hire such and such to design work for you, you can reach him/her here @ [...]"
Professional Joomla! by Dan Rahmel is cheaper, better written and loyal to the customer. I would understand the shameless plugs in Building websites with Joomla if the book was FREE and they make their money via these plugs. However, I paid $[...] on it and expect quality for it.
I go to joomla's website and the publishing company PACKT is on the front page pushing its "Vote for Best PHP *and* Best Overall Open Source CMS contest" and guess what else is on the page? you guessed it, this book.
HORRIBLE please don't buy this book. You will learn more via docs.joomla.org and for free.
 Great Tutorial Book August 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a great book for beginners of the web world. Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 really is quite helpful in setting up and maintaining a website built on the popular framework.
The book has very well documented, with images, the Joomla! experience. Each chapter covers new topics to help you setup, edit, and maintain your site, and the content on the site.
The later chapters are helpful, and will whet your appetite for more if you are a programmer.
Beginners will be quite satisfied with this book, as it details in very easy to follow steps exactly how to get your site up, and working, and how to easily maintain and edit the site.
 If you want the basics... July 29, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Get this book, but don't expect much more. The first half of the book is a complete snore if you have done any web development in the past, this includes HTML as it is completely non-technical. This book also introduces somthing that I haven't seen in a technical text in a while and that would be an editorial piece. Maybe I'm light on open source reading but I don't really care so much about someone's opinion on why companies that do not share the authors opinion are selfish and only open source developers go to heaven.
It might not be that extreme, but it really has no place in a technical / educational text. If I want those opinions I'll buy a different book, I'm just trying to learn a bit about the software.
If you want the technical approach, order the WROX book. Does a much better job from the get go digging into the technical aspects of the project and leaves the ego stroking to others.
 optimised for search engines! April 24, 2008
8 out of 76 found this review helpful
Joomla [sorry, I just won't add that exclamation mark after it] is targeting the novice website designer and programmer. By some definitions, a designer need not be concerned with the messy details of actually making webpages. However, Joomla is easy enough to pick up that a designer might well be tempted to indulge in actual page design and generation.
It does aim at websites where the intent is for users to have a persistent login. To this ends, Joomla offers a separation of functions, for the user and for the administrator [you presumably]. As the book demonstrates, it's pretty easy for you to create user accounts. The specialisation for content management is shown when there is the concept of groups of users. Joomla offers Registered, Author, Editor and Publisher. With subsidiary groups of Manager, Administrator and Super Admin. The administrative tasks are done within a simple GUI that frees you from memorising arcane command lines.
Joomla also has an interesting functionality. It lets you, the website author or owner, publish Joomla-generated URLs that are search engine friendly. Various search engines tend not to store long URLs, where there are many arguments in these, after the host name. The assumption is that the URLs refer to dynamic [ie. transient] content. Hence there is little point to the engine storing these URLs, or the pages pointed to by them. But you want the engine to store your website's URLs, right? What Joomla does is rewrite the URLs in a more compact form, which improves the chances of an engine recording these. And thus offering your website in its free results.
|
|
|
Copyright 2008 - RailroadBookstore.com
| |
