- ISBN13: 9780470432877
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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 sea… More >>
#1 by Tenzo on June 25, 2010 - 7:50 pm
I use Microsoft frontpage and wanted to get into something a little more current. I didn’t. The book was arranged awkwardly and didn’t start from the basics, which is what I needed.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Wray Post on June 25, 2010 - 8:41 pm
This book is an easy read, very informative, BUT, it is out of date already and has wrong information. And it is not all that useful. For example, if you look in the back for the index to find out how to install Forums on your website, all that the book has to offer is an address to the Joomla Forums page!
I have at home a Linux box running Ubuntu (the most popular distro of Linux) in which I installed xampp that is an Apache server. To install Joomla on that server, Joomla! for Dummies has no command lines in which accomplish the task. In other words, this is like someone telling you how to build a house without mentioning about the hammer and nails and …
I am sorry for being so negative, but I would not care for you to waste your money like I did.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Ross S. Smith on June 25, 2010 - 11:19 pm
Joomla for Dummies, ha ha!
I have always liked the ‘for Dummies’ series, but not this one. Badly written and next to useless.
Further, Chapter 2 is worse than useless it is just plain wrong,and doesn’t work.
Do yourself a favour, don’t buy this book!
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Book Buyer on June 26, 2010 - 12:40 am
This is a great book and it answered all the questions I had staring with Joomla for the first time. I highly recommend it if you are a starter on this subject.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by James Tormey on June 26, 2010 - 2:43 am
I had no experience at all with building a Joomla based website and this book made it easy to do. It was easy to understand and I could gt my website up and running within a few hours.
Rating: 5 / 5