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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.6 First Look, a new book, which is a concise guide to everything that’s the latest in Joomla! 1.6. Written by Eric Tiggeler, this book contains ample screenshots and clear explanations of all the new features of Joomla! 1.6 and their usage, whilst covering changes in all aspects of Joomla! including interface, menus, templates, and extensions.

Joomla! is the world’s hottest open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.6 First Look book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed and how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from the existing Joomla! versions. Furthermore, this book starts off by teaching readers the general changes in interface and basic articles, and then progresses to take them through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features.

Using this book, developers will learn the various changes in Joomla! 1.6 that affect the day to day routine of organizing, adding and editing articles. Additionally, this book will assist developers to understand the new extensions overhauled in Joomla! 1.6 and the new SEO features to enhance their site's SEO, and to access Control Levels relevant to website administrators in need of fine grained user permissions control.

Packed with step-by-step instructions and illustrative screenshots, this book is ideal for existing Joomla! users, developers and designers, who wish to know about everything that's new in Joomla! 1.6. The book is out now and available from Packt.

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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook, a new book that contains over 60 quick and direct recipes to help readers to overcome common Joomla! queries. Written by Tom Canavan, this book includes the brand new portions of Joomla! 1.6 along with recipes covering a range of site management and core Joomla! activities.

 Joomla! is one of the world’s most high-profile open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla 1.5 Cookbook will help users to find straight and swift ways through their common problems, which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. This book starts off with solutions to the most familiar queries that users might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5, and then goes on to guide users through Joomla! templates, modules and security.

Using this book, developers will learn to install Joomla! and set up their database on two different but common types of hosting. Additionally, this book will enable developers to manage links, users and media, and install, assign and create modules and components. Furthermore, this book will teach developers to perform easy and medium difficulty tasks that are designed to eliminate the issues that they may experience.

Packed with the easiest solutions to various pitfalls that might fall in the way of Joomla! sites, this book is ideal for Joomla! site owners, who want to get particular things working or improved, and want to get rid of their problems quickly. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-cookbook-to-overcome-common-joomla-queries/book

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Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook is a new book from Packt that will help readers to set up, take control and use the best extensions available for Joomla! Written by Suhreed Sarkar, this book covers extensions for just about every use of Joomla!, while allowing readers to implement access control list across groups.

Joomla! is one of the world’s most high-profile open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook enables users to add maps, image galleries, slideshows, video players, security, forums, shopping cart, guestbook, and other mind-opening functionalities to their sites. This book starts off by teaching users to control access to their Joomla! site and then goes on to explain integration of Joomla! with phpBB. Additionally, users will learn to improve communication among their site customers, to add Ajax contact forms and to build database applications without coding, through this book.

Using this book, developers will learn to create backups that can be restored on any other Joomla! site, import hundreds of users from a CSV file enabling them to log in without registering themselves, send tweets automatically upon publishing articles in Joomla!, add project management functionalities to their Joomla!-based sites and get notified about new contents from time to time (for subscribers), and to add attachment to an article in a much easier way using the Attachment plugin.

Packed with step-by-step instructions to use Joomla! extensions to achieve optimal sites, this book is ideal for developers, who wish to build basic Joomla! sites, and are looking for information on the use of Joomla! extensions and their customization. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-top-extensions-cookbook/book

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Building job sites with Joomla! is a new book from Packt that will help readers to build their own professional website using Joomla! Written by Santonu Kumar Dhar , this book will assist users to administrate and publish their Joomla! job site easily using the Joomla! 1.5 administrator panel and the Jobs! Pro control panel interface, and boost their job site ranking in search engines using Joomla! SEO.

Joomla! is one of the world’s high profile open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Building job sites with Joomla! starts off with the basic installation and configuration, and goes on to explain all the steps required to assemble a working job site efficiently. Furthermore, users will learn to manage their site easily using the Jobs! control panel, and to expedite the communication between employers and the jobseekers using e-mail templates. Additionally, users will learn to add and manage job types, job categories, and applications in order to keep their database organized.

Using this book, developers will learn the installation and configuration of Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs! Pro. They will also be able to manage cover letters and resume files to make their application stand out in a crowd.  Additionally, developers will be able to augment their website ranking in search engines using handy SEO strategies such as using effective keywords, making SEF URLs, creating sitemap, and submitting website to search engines.

A step-by-step tutorial with a practical approach and a lot of screenshots, this book is ideal for developers, who wish to build and manage job sites using Joomla! extensions. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please click on the book image.

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Packt is pleased to announce ChronoForms 1.3 for Joomla! site Cookbook, a new book that will help readers toexplore the versatility of ChronoForms in order to make their website interactive. Written by Bob Janes, this book will assist readers in publishing forms to websites using ChronoForms quickly and easily.

ChronoForms is a Joomla Component that helps Joomla/Mambo users to publish forms to a website swiftly and effortlessly. Joomla! is a fantastic way to create a dynamic CMS, whereas ChronoForms is the extension that allows developers to interact with their users by means of forms.

ChronoForms 1.3 for Joomla! site Cookbooktakes users through form development in a step by step manner using ChronoForms’ built-in drag-and-drop tool. This practical guide also goes on to explain other important topics such as validation of user input and how to save data in the database. Readers will also learn to change the look and the feel of their forms to match their site.

Using this book, developers will learn to use ChronoForms plugins to enhance their forms and develop more advanced features, to create common types of forms, to display their forms in an article, a module or a light box, to set up form validation and security, and to setup emails to send form results to site administrators or to the users.

Packed with easy-to-follow recipes, tips and tricks, and ample screenshots, this practical book is ideal for people who want to add simple newsletter sign-ups or complex multi-page interactive forms to their Joomla! sites. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/chronoforms-13-joomla-site-cookbook/book

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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! Social Networking with JomSocial, a new book that will help readers to create and run their own social network with Joomla! and JomSocial. Written by Kwasi Boateng and Beatrice A. Boateng, this book will enable users to create content for their social network and integrate it with other Joomla! extensions.

JomSocial is a social publishing platform for the Joomla! Content Management system and allows users to connect with friends, integrate videos, share photos, create groups, and customize their brand. It is an out-of-the-box extension that enables Joomla! website administrators to setup social networks with ease and to customize them.

Joomla! Social Networking with JomSocial guides users through the installation of JomSocial on a Joomla! platform in addition to helping them walk through processes for integrating other key Joomla! plugins into JomSocial for interaction in an online social networking environment. Users will have built a good looking, fully functional social networking site with the help of tips and tricks, by the end of this hands-on guide.

Using this book, developers will learn the customization of their profile by adding extra fields and changing their avatar to enhance the look of their site. Furthermore, this book will enable readers to set profile permissions, determine privacy settings to control the privacy of their site, set preferences for user activities, customize user activity, invite friends on other networks and increase their sites visibility by integrating their Facebook account into their Joomla! social network.

With step by step instructions, this practical guide is suitable for both novice and advanced Joomla! Users and is ideal for individuals or institutions, who desire to develop a social networking system using the Joomla! content management system. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-social-networking-with-jomsocial/book

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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook, a new book that provides readers with over 60 incredibly effective recipes for taking control of their Joomla! templates. Written by Richard Carter, this book starts from the basics of Joomla! templates customization and goes on to explain the most complex functionalities too, along with a great mix of recipes for beginners, intermediate, and advanced Joomla! template designers.

Joomla! is one of the world’s high profile open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing a site's logo and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. This book will help users make their site more attractive, user-friendly and mobile- friendly, in addition to integrating it with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube, to suit their needs perfectly.

Using this book, developers will learn to add a multilingual aspect to their website as well as Joomla! concepts such as module chrome and template positions. Additionally, this guide will also enable users to create custom error templates and attractive print styles, create social bookmarks, embed videos, add a shoutbox to their Joomla! website, style Joomla!'s search results and customize the look and feel of their website.

With step-by-step instructions for customizing Joomla! Templates, this book is ideal for Joomla! developers, who want to enhance the look and feel of their Joomla! sites. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-templates-cookbook/book

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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide, a new book that will help newbies to get started with Joomla! and quickly go beyond the basics. Written by Eric Tiggeler, an experienced Joomla! tutorial writer as well as the author of a Dutch Joomla! Manual, this beginner's guide will help readers build and maintain impressive user-friendly websites with Joomla! 1.5.

Joomla! is an award-winning open-source Content Management System, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It is written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide is a practical book that gives readers a head start in using Joomla! 1.5. Readers will learn to build dynamic, interactive websites that are easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also explains how attractive home pages can be designed with clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks.

Through this book, readers will learn to make full use of templates to make their website look attractive by tweaking the CSS, customizing templates and using custom logos, fonts, and colors. It will also help developers engage website visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments. In addition to this, the book will teach users to increase their site's visibility on search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.

Developers who wish to build and maintain their website using Joomla! 1.5 as well as newbie’s to the subject will find this book a beneficial and interesting read. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-beginners-guide/book

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