Safari Books Online Offers Free Webcast
on August 19th with Joomla! Expert and
Author Barrie North

Sebastopol, CA - July 23, 2009
Safari® Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, creative, and business professionals, announced today that it will host a complimentary webcast on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT with Barrie North, author of Joomla! 1.5 - A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 2/e.During this webcast, North will focus on Joomla’s!  installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates and more. Joomla! is the world’s #1 open source content management system.

This 60-minute webcast is designed for site managers, administrators, and developers. Attendees will learn tips, tricks and solutions covering:

• How to build Joomla! sites from scratch and customize them
• Creating dynamic pages and effective navigation
• Optimizing Joomla! sites for search engines
• Identifying the most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons.

To register for this complimentary event, please visit: http://www.safaribooksonline.com/events/joomla.html. All webcast attendees will receive 45 days of complimentary access to Joomla! 1.5 - A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 2/e on Safari Books Online, and the first 10 people to register for and attend the event will receive an autographed copy of the book.

About The Author

Barrie North has more than 15 years of experience with the Internet, as a user, teacher and designer. In 2005, he co-founded Joomlashack.com, one of the world's leading providers of Joomla! templates. In addition to template design, he has provided Web marketing/SEO and usability, and he runs training classes for Joomla! across the country. In 2008, he launched Simplweb.com/joomla, which provides turnkey Joomla! Websites for small businesses, schools and other industries. He can be found blogging on Joomla at www.compassdesigns.net.

About Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com) is an on-demand digital library that delivers expert content in both book and video form from the world’s leading authors in technology and business. Technology professionals, software developers, Web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training. Safari Books Online offers a range of product mixes and pricing programs for organizations, government agencies and individuals. Subscribers have access to thousands of books, training videos and prepublication manuscripts in one fully searchable database from publishers like Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, IBM Press, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, FT Press, Wharton School Publishing, Apress, Manning, New Riders, Apple Certified, Course Technology, Splash Media and dozens more. For more information about Safari Books Online, please visit us online.

About Pearson

The global leader in educational and professional publishing, Pearson is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm InformIT - The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit, the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others, publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

Contacts

Safari Books Online
Paige Mazzoni / Rose St. Clair » (707) 827.4100
rstclair@safarijv.com
or
Rocket Science
Marie-Louise Clark » (415) 464.8110 x 214
marie@rocketscience.com