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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 5.38 MB
    Pages | 270
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  This step-by-step tutorial shows the reader how to build an ASP.NET Content Management System from scratch. You will first learn the basics of a content management system and how to set up the tools you need to build your site. Then, you start building your site, setting up users, and adding content to your site. You will be able to edit the content of your site and also manage its layout all by yourself. Towards the end, you will learn to manage your site from a single point and will have all the information you need to extend your site to make it more powerful. Filled with plenty of code snippets and screen images to keep you on track as well as numerous additional samples to show you all the exciting alternatives to explore, this book prepares you for all the challenges you can face in development. This book is for beginner to intermediate ASP.NET users who have managed to learn Visual Web Developer and want to take on their first real-world application. It will help those who have used SQL Server Express, completed a few sample projects, and now wish to explore a Content Management System.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 13.3 MB
    Pages | 483
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field--development and deployment--with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides.
    Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You'll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you'll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You'll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.

    What you will learn from this book
    How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance
    The process of creating a module from scratch
    Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!
    Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems
    How to create and retain a virtual community
    Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM)

    Who this book is for
    This book is for web developers, hobbyists, web designers, bloggers, corporate content creators, and support specialists who are looking to build a more robust web site. Basic skills in the area of PHP programming are necessary.
    Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 9.82 MB
    Pages | 264
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  Joomla! is one of the most powerful open-source content management systems used to build websites and other powerful online applications. While Joomla! itself is inherently safe, misconfigurations, vulnerable components, poorly configured hosts, and weak passwords can all contribute to the downfall of your site. So, you need to know how to secure your website from security threats.
    Today every website needs to take security into consideration. Using the knowledge here, your Joomla! site can be ahead of the security threats so prevalent today.
    This book will take you all the way from the most basic steps of preparation to the nuts and bolts of actual protection. It is packed full of relevant and real-world topics such as security tools, configuration suggestions, setting up your test and development environment, reading and interpreting log files, and techniques used by bad hackers on the Internet. In addition to this you will learn how to respond to a site emergency should one occur and how to collect the evidence needed to pursue law enforcement action. The book provides a concise overview of all the parts needed to construct a defence-in-depth strategy for your Joomla! site.
    At the end of the book you will have a solid security foundation to take your Joomla! website to a higher level of security than the basic site setup.

    What you will learn from this book
    This book covers:
    Implementing steps for successful Joomla! website architecture
    Setting up metrics to measure security
    Exploring the test and development environment; developing your test plan to make sure everything will work as planned
    Utilizing your test and development site for disaster recovery
    Measuring the performance of your software development projects using a software development management system
    Exploring several tools to help protect your website
    Diving into security vulnerabilities: why they exist; some typical counter measures
    Exploring SQL Injections - how they can hurt you and how to prevent them
    Mastering the two important security layers - php.ini and .htaccess
    Reading and analyzing logs relevant to protecting your Joomla! site
    Handling Security Incidents in a professional manner
    Blocking nuisance IP addresses

    Approach
    This book will give you a strong, hands-on approach to security. It starts out with the most basic of considerations such as choosing the right hosting sites then moves quickly into securing the Joomla! site and servers. This is a security handbook for Joomla! sites. It is an easy-to-use guide that will take you step by step into the world of secured websites.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 4.93 MB
    Pages | 227
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to creating Joomla! templates for your website. It guides you through setting up a basic workflow for Joomla! template design, debugging and validating the template code, creating drop-down menus, interactive forms, and dynamic forms for your site, and packaging up your finished template in a ZIP file for users. This book is aimed at web designers who want to create their own unique templates for Joomla!. Readers should have basic knowledge of Joomla! (which can be obtained by working through Building Websites with Joomla!) and also some knowledge of CSS and HTML, and using Dreamweaver for coding purposes.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 10.6 MB
    Pages | 364
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  Build template-based web sites without the hassle of writing code!
    Joomla! is a free, open source PHP & MySQL-based content management system that allows you to create interactive, community-based Web sites without having to write or program code in PHP or ASP.NET. This fun and friendly introduction to Joomla! shows you how to create a rich, interactive Web site that does not require any code.
    No matter your skill level, this easy-to-understand resource demonstrates how to drop preconfigured modules that already contain PHP and MySQL code directly into your Joomla! site. Thanks to the Dummies fun and friendly approach, you'll quickly see how easy to create a rich, interactive Web site with Joomla!
    Demonstrates how to create a business site—complete with shopping cart—quickly and easily
    Walks you through developing Web sites with discussions, RSS feeds, picture submissions, and more
    Includes coverage of the newest version of Joomla!, explains its completely new administrative features, and reviews its ability to provide different levels of access to different users via much-requested access control lists
    Find out why Joomla! is the easiest way to build an interactive, community-based Web site
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 27.8 MB
    Pages | 795
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) for Web sites. While it is free and relatively easy to use, there are lots of tricks and functionality that may not be intuitive to new users or those switching from other systems. And the previous version is quite different from the new Joomla 1.5, for which documentation is sparse. Joomla! Bible is the complete, step-by-step guide you need to build and manage Web sites using the very newest version of this powerful and popular CMS.
    Walks you through obtaining the Joomla! 1.5 code and how to deploy it to a server, configure the site, create content, and manage content and user hierarchies
    Helps you get the most out of core modules that provide advanced functionality, including the Polls Module, the Banner Manager, the Media Manager, Galleries, Weblinks, Content Syndication, and Newsfeed Aggregation
    Vaults you into the world of Web 2.0 with extensive coverage of JomSocial, and shows you how to set up for e-commmerce with VirtueMart
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 9.24 MB
    Pages | 340
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Joomla!. If you've never used Joomla!, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Joomla! based web site fast. You don't have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions using this book and Joomla! This book will guide through every step. This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors and marketing professionals who want develop a fully featured web presence in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive web site.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 17.5 MB
    Pages | 380
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."
    While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.
    This book takes a practical step-by-step approach of teaching the installation and configuration of Joomla! 1.5, customizing it, creating your templates and extensions, and finally, building your own website.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 23.6 MB
    Pages | 438
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  Joomla! is one of the most searched–for and hired–for open source content management systems in the world. Since 2007, the combination of Joomla! and Dan Rahmel’s bestselling Beginning Joomla!, From Novice to Professional have made it so that all you have to do is read a single book to learn how to build sites that take community–authored content and turn it instantly into published web pages with features like rich templating, content management, forums, photo management, and article commenting.
    Now revised and updated for Joomla! 1.5, this second edition “job–in–a–book” provides the solid core of know–how that you’ll need to get the most out of your Joomla! deployment, written to fully exploit the features of latest version of Joomla! More than just a simple “build a toy web site” guide, Beginning Joomla!, Second Edition will give you a wealth of life–saving tips, tricks, tools, and fixes that experienced Joomla! developers use to build powerful, popular web sites while avoiding major headaches. This book covers
    How to use add and create extensions
    Access management and how documents, photos, and other content are managed in Joomla! 1.5
    E–commerce integration and search engine optimization
    Dan Rahmel explores the updates to Joomla! 1.5 that you’ll need if you already use Joomla! and explains, using the latest terms, how to build a web site from scratch if you don’t already use Joomla! An update to the best–selling Joomla! title on the market, this is the Joomla! book to get.

    What you’ll learn
    The best way to set up a Joomla! installation and web server
    Creating a Joomla! site, from idea to execution
    The latest features of Joomla! and how to leverage them

    Who this book is for
    This book is for current and prospective web developers interested in using the Joomla! content management system, as well as for any web user seeking to learn how to self–publish for a community.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 50.0 MB
    Pages | 524
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  How to develop powerful mobile Web sites using popular content management systems (CMS)
    Mobile is the hottest thing going—and developing content for mobile devices and browsers is even hotter than that.  This book is your guide to it all—how to design, build, and deploy sites, blogs and services that will work brilliantly for mobile users. You’ll learn about the state-of-the-art of mobile web development, the tools available to use, and the best practices for creating compelling mobile user interfaces. Then, using the most popular content management systems, WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal, you’ll learn how to building world-class mobile web sites from existing platforms and content..  The book walks you through each platform, including how to use third-party plug-ins and themes, explains the strategies for writing your own logic, how to switch between mobile and desktop, and much more.
    Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and acquaints you with  a range of mobile devices and networks
    Covers topics common to all platforms, including site topologies, switching between mobile and desktop, common user interface patterns, and more
    Walks you through each content management platform—WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal—first focusing on standard plug-ins and themes and then exploring advanced techniques for writing your own themes or logic
    Explains the best practices for testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site
    Also explores analytics, m-commerce, and SEO techniques for mobile
    Get ahead of the the mobile web development curve with this professional and in-depth reference guide.
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  • About The File:
    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 11.2 MB
    Pages | 292
    Language | English
    Category | Programming Web
    Description:  Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.
    This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.
    The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.
    First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.
    By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
    Build impressive Joomla! Sites with jQuery, from third-party extensions to development
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