Joomla is one of the content management system (CMS) which is available at free of cost and it is open source program which enables web developers to build powerful dynamic web sites online applications. Joomla can be used very easily by non technical person and it can be extensible easily with the many modules which are also availble at free of cost. Joomla is the most popular web site software available online today.

A content management system (CMS) is software which keeps track of every piece of content on a web site, much like a local library keeps track of books & stores them. Content can be anything like simple text, music, photos, documents, video or about anything we can think of. The main advantage of using a CMS as it requires no technical knowledge or skill to manage a web site.

Joomla can be used through out world to create web sites of all sizes and shapes. Some of the sample websites we can create using joomla are corporate website portals, intranets and extranets, online news papers, magazines and publications, online reservation websites, e-commerce websites, government websites, small business applications, non-profit organisational sites, school and church applications, community websites many more websites can be created easily with joomla content management system. A little bit help and start should be required to use Joomla by a non technical user. So this book will be helpful to work with Joomla.

With its pre-coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies. Learn to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, let your guests sign up for e-mail lists, and much more. Joomla! For Dummies helps you to: Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout Use templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them to Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modules Build search engi (more…)

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