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Professional Joomla!

Professional Joomla walks the reader through Joomla, an open content management system that is rapidly growing in popularity. Readers will quickly advance from installation, integration, and set-up topics to digging into the underlying PHP and MySQL whose flexibility is driving the growth of the platform. Readers will explore load balancing, log tracking, and even search engine optimization. From a user standpoint, Joomla offers tremendous ease of use and simplicity. The elegant dashboard based upon the KDE interface allows content to be updated in minutes and data to flow freely from outside sources. Administrators and developers have he capability to customize virtually every aspect of the platform. For this reason extra attention is given to topics like plug-ins, the API, design and skinning, and integration with existing databases, websites, and web services.

Learn Advanced Joomla! Techniques

Professional Joomla! will lead the reader through the advanced design, setup, configuration, and management of a superior Joomla site.

Professional Joomla! will take the reader through:

• Creating multi-column templates for a customized site look
• Adding Extensions and Components so a Joomla site can feature everything from an eCommerce shopping cart to an Event Calendar
• Developing custom extensions to add new functionality to their website including modules, components, and plug-ins
• Using advanced programming methodology such as programming patterns to ensure scalability of your site
• Implementing Ajax for more robust Joomla interaction
• Directly query the Joomla MySQL database for custom reporting
• Professional deployment of a high-volume site
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Joomla content

Joomla is quickly becoming the premiere content management system because it allows small to medium web sites to construct, maintain, and add to their site content with a simple web-based interface. In almost every field, Joomla is being adopted by businesses to ensure that maintenance costs remain low. The opportunity for developers who specialize in development of specialty tools for this market is growing every day.

Professional Joomla! will provide complete instruction to developers and content providers in all aspects of content creation. The advanced user will find thorough "how-to" information for everything from component development to MySQL database modification to load-balancing.

Professional Joomla! will be available in October. Pre-order your copy today!

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