Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1: Introducing Joomla! Chapter 2: The Finer Points of Installation and Configuration. Chapter 3: Developing Custom Templates. Chapter 4: Adding and Modifying Available Extensions. Chapter 5: Developing Simple Extensions: Modules. Chapter 6: Advanced Extensions: Components. Chapter 7: Joomla! and Ajax. Chapter 8: Design Patterns and Joomla! Chapter 9: Hooking into the Joomla! Foundation: Plug-Ins. Chapter 10: Building Joomla! Communities. Chapter 11: Managing a Professional Deployment. Chapter 12: Interfacing with Outside Content. Chapter 13: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Chapter 14: Joomla! Security. Chapter 15: What Joomla! Can't Do. Chapter 16: Spotlight on Successful Joomla! Sites. Index.

About the Author

Dan Rahmel is an author best known for his work with database systems, PHP, and Visual Basic. He has more than a dozen years of experience designing and implementing information systems and client-server solutions using MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Visual FoxPro. He began work as a writer for various magazines, including DBMS , American Programmer , and Internet Advisor . He is the author of more than a dozen books, and his writing has been translated into numerous languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. In 2006, Focal Press issued a special edition of Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking: Practical Techniques for the Guerilla Filmmaker (Focal Press, 2004) for release in India.