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Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site
By: Jen KramereBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wrox
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Everything you need to know to plan and maintain a Joomla! site
Joomla! offers powerful functionality and ease of configuration, making it an immensely popular open source content management system. However, far more than simply downloading and installing Joomla! is required in order to create a dynamic web site. This book walks you through the critical steps that must be taken in the planning process prior to establishing a Joomla! site. Joomla! expert Jen Kramer reviews essential questions that need to be asked of a client, discusses technical solutions to a variety of challenges, and explains how a site structure should be organized.
Topics Covered:
I Want a Web Site and I Want It Blue — How Much Will That Cost?
Choosing the Right Technologies to Solve the Business Problem
Downloading and Installing Joomla!
A Brief Tour of the Joomla! Administration Interface
Creating and Configuring Menus
Installing and Configuring
Modules That Come with Joomla
Components That Come with Joomla!
Plug-Ins That Come with Joomla!
Adding Extensions to Joomla!
Home Page Tips and Tricks
Custom Templates
Advanced Template and CSS Tricks
Site Maintenance and Training
Once the groundwork has been laid, you'll discover how to host and install Joomla!, and upgrade and maintain your Joomla! site.
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Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site
Chapter One
I Want a Web Site and I Want It Blue - How Much Will That Cost?
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
* Understanding business strategy, web site strategy, and user strategy, and how they compliment and contrast with each other * Understanding a target audience and how it helps shape the message of your web site * Assembling a team to build the web site
If you're like me, you've been asked something like the question in the chapter's title more than once when talking to a potential client. How do you answer it?
* Do you offer them a package of services for a fixed price? * Do you ask them whether they want a calendar, blog, or some other piece of functionality with that? * Do you ask them whether they want to update the web site themselves, or do they want you to do the maintenance?
All these questions are reasonable to ask at a certain point in the conversation with your potential client. But a far better place to start is at the beginning. For example, I might reply by saying, "Sure, we can make it blue. But before we start talking about how the site will look, please tell me a little about your business. What do you do for a living?"
Why would I want to do that? If the client is telling me to set up a few pages and a calendar, what could be simpler? Charge the client and move on to the next one!
Many freelancers run their businesses just like this, and they do reasonably well in a reasonable economy. But as the economy gets worse, clients hold on to their pocketbooks more tightly. They want to know they are getting the biggest bang fo
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