Search icon Close icon
Search icon
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from  Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783981502
Pages 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Eric Tiggeler Eric Tiggeler
Profile icon Eric Tiggeler
LinkedIn
Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla!, such as the highly successful Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide  and Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He has also written several Joomla! guides in Dutch. His books have received excellent reader reviews. He also writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites. Over the last ten years, he has developed numerous websites, big and small, using Joomla!. He is fascinated by the Web as a powerful, creative, and ever-changing means of communication, as well as by the revolutionary software Joomla!, which enables anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites. On a daily basis, he works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated to the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 20 books in Dutch on writing and communication. His passion lies in making complex things easy to understand. He is married, has two daughters, and lives and works in Hilversum, the Netherlands. On the Web, you'll find him at www.joomla.erictiggeler.nl(in Dutch) and www.joomm.net(in English).
See other products by Eric Tiggeler

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques Keeping the Site Secure Creating a Multilingual Site Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – downloading and activating a new template

For your site's redesign, you've hit upon a great looking template on the Web. In this example, we'll use the Future template developed by IceTheme. It is a clean and basic template that offers enough opportunities to customize the layout and appearance. This can be done as follows:

  1. Navigate to http://www.icetheme.com/Downloads/Joomla-Templates/Free-Joomla-Templates/Future/View-Category.

  2. Click on the Download button. The compressed template file (IT_Future_V.3.0.1-(unzip-first)-9544626154.zip) is saved on your computer.

  3. Navigate to the ZIP file on your computer and unzip it. The ZIP file contains several other ZIP packages: the template, an installation guide, and several free extensions that come with the template. After you've decompressed the ZIP file, the files shown in the following screenshot should be available:

  4. After you've uncompressed the main ZIP file, you should also unzip the following files: IceMegaMenu_Unzip_First.zip...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
arrow left Previous Chapter
Chapter 1 of 22
Next Chapter arrow right
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Sign up now
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Start free trial
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}

Authors (1)

Profile icon Eric Tiggeler
LinkedIn
Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla!, such as the highly successful Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide  and Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He has also written several Joomla! guides in Dutch. His books have received excellent reader reviews. He also writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites. Over the last ten years, he has developed numerous websites, big and small, using Joomla!. He is fascinated by the Web as a powerful, creative, and ever-changing means of communication, as well as by the revolutionary software Joomla!, which enables anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites. On a daily basis, he works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated to the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 20 books in Dutch on writing and communication. His passion lies in making complex things easy to understand. He is married, has two daughters, and lives and works in Hilversum, the Netherlands. On the Web, you'll find him at www.joomla.erictiggeler.nl(in Dutch) and www.joomm.net(in English).
Read more
See other products by Eric Tiggeler

Personalised recommendations for you

Based on your interests and search pattern
Left arrow icon
Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development
Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development
Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development covers everything a frontend developer or a Drupal developer needs to know about the Drupal 10 theme layer. Using real-world examples, this book will help you to build up from an empty theme to a fast, responsive, maintainable, and accessible Drupal website in both monolithic and decoupled ways.
Aug 2023 12 hours 0 minutes
Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 3 and React
Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 3 and React
Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 3 and React contains a wealth of practical guidance for picking up full stack development. The step-by-step exploration of everything from dependency injection, ORM with Hibernate, and JWTs to RESTful APIs, UI styling, and TypeScript will help you to develop the Spring Boot and React skills you need.
Oct 2023 15 hours 8 minutes
Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3
Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3
This practical guide teaches inexperienced Java programmers and web developers how to design, develop, test, and deploy highly scalable and maintainable APIs using REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and reactive programming paradigms with Java and Spring Boot. Complete with real-world examples, it will guide you to build enterprise-level APIs and services.
Sep 2023 16 hours 28 minutes
Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
This book guides you to discover and extract quality data from the web using Python libraries such as requests, lxml, pyquery, scrapy, and to use effective scraping techniques. It’ll help you master the fundamentals and advanced concepts of web scraping and apply your skills to real-world data extraction tasks, with analysis and visualization.
Oct 2023 10 hours 48 minutes
Mastering Blazor WebAssembly
Mastering Blazor WebAssembly
Mastering Blazor WebAssembly is a comprehensive, practical guide that’ll help you to develop advanced web applications. By combining real-world experience with the thorough knowledge needed to build Blazor apps in a masterful fashion, this book enables you to efficiently manage cross-platform mobile development with .NET MAUI and Blazor.
Aug 2023 12 hours 20 minutes
Mastering Blazor WebAssembly
Mastering Blazor WebAssembly
Mastering Blazor WebAssembly is a comprehensive, practical guide that’ll help you to develop advanced web applications. By combining real-world experience with the thorough knowledge needed to build Blazor apps in a masterful fashion, this book enables you to efficiently manage cross-platform mobile development with .NET MAUI and Blazor.
Aug 2023 12 hours 20 minutes
Full Stack Web Development with Remix
Full Stack Web Development with Remix
Unlock the power of the web platform and cutting-edge technologies for your React applications using Remix to take advantage of the full stack to create a great user experience. This book is a complete resource covering the conventions, levers, and primitives of Remix and illustrates concepts through a real-world project.
Nov 2023 10 hours 36 minutes
Real-World Svelte
Real-World Svelte
This book is a must-have guide to unlocking Svelte's true potential. You’ll learn about advanced component development, efficient coding, and powerful UI patterns using actions. With a focus on state management, custom stores, and renderless components, this book equips you to build exceptional web apps with lightning-fast performance.
Dec 2023 9 hours 24 minutes
Building Micro Frontends with React 18
Building Micro Frontends with React 18
This book is a step-by-step guide to building production-grade, highly scalable, and performant web apps using multi-SPA and micro apps patterns, where you’ll learn to deal with complexities related to micro frontends. The book is a full life cycle guide to building, deploying, and managing micro frontends in a cloud-native environment.
Oct 2023 7 hours 16 minutes
Drupal 10 Masterclass
Drupal 10 Masterclass
This all-in-one guide helps you get up and running with building Drupal applications using the latest Drupal 10 features. You’ll develop a complete practical understanding of Drupal frontend, backend, architecture, content management, themes, and modules to deliver a rich user experience by creating custom Drupal apps.
Dec 2023 10 hours 20 minutes
Full-Stack Flask and React
Full-Stack Flask and React
This book teaches you how to build simple yet efficient production-ready web applications. Starting with an introduction to React, this book will equip you with deeper knowledge of Flask and React technology stacks to undertake web application development with confidence.
Oct 2023 13 hours 36 minutes
Full-Stack Flask and React
Full-Stack Flask and React
This book teaches you how to build simple yet efficient production-ready web applications. Starting with an introduction to React, this book will equip you with deeper knowledge of Flask and React technology stacks to undertake web application development with confidence.
Oct 2023 13 hours 36 minutes
Right arrow icon