This month’s featured book is "Joomla! Explained — Your Step-by-Step Guide" by Steve Burge. The book is a great learning tool for newbies and an excellent everyday reference for Joomla! content publishers and managers. It’s equally valuable as a training resource for the website builders who want to use select chapters as standalone tutorials for their clients, and can serve as a sustainable hands-on knowledge management component for any organization that has deployed and is using Joomla! to establish and grow its web presence.
Steve Burge “has taught thousands of beginners — and thousands more who’ve experimented with Joomla! but haven’t mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding Joomla! users up the learning curve — from confusion to results!”1. In addition to owning one of the leading Joomla! SEO services provider, www.alledia.com, as well as www.ostraining.com, Steve is a board member of Open Source Matters, which provides Joomla! with financial and legal support.
The biggest value of this book is that it removes any and all of the ambiguities related to using Joomla! as your website management system. It builds practical understanding of how to work with the CMS and offers a clear path that leads you to an intuitive way of learning about Joomla!, and how to use it easily and effectively.
“Maybe Joomla! is a hobby for you. Maybe you went to work one day and your boss said “Surprise! You’re learning Joomla!.” Maybe you’re a web professional who’s looking to make a career from building Joomla! sites. It doesn’t matter”, says Steve. “We all want to spend more time building web sites and less time struggling with complicated instructions. After all, the whole point of you using Joomla! is to allow you to take control of your site quickly and easily.”
The book’s target audience will benefit doubly from reading it:
There is no denying that Joomla! is no MS Word (although many baby-boomers might argue that MS word has been the hardest thing they have ever had to learn, considering that 20 years ago the world was a very different arena IT-wise) and to reap the highest benefits from it you need to invest the time to learn how it functions. But there are books that make the learning process fun. They engage and stimulate your brain — they make you think, ask questions and want to learn more. And Joomla! <explained> definitely belongs to this class of books. It is easy to process, makes the Joomla! learning fun and easy, and is an excellent resource not only for “newbies”, but also for the professional designer who wants to diversify into Joomla!, as well as for web content publishers and managers.
1From the back cover of Joomla! <explained> — Your Step-by-Step Guide
2While this book was written for Joomla! 1.6, Steve Burge has confirmed that it will also apply to Joomla! 1.7.
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