WHAT THIS BOOK COVERS

Because this book assumes you know absolutely nothing about building websites, you will start at the very beginning, learning what Joomla is. You will then plan your website, learn what a domain name is and how to choose a good one, and sign up for web hosting. You'll install Joomla with the click of a few buttons, and then you'll be ready to put content into your website. You'll download templates to make the site pretty, and you'll download extensions to make it interactive and interesting. At the end, you'll have a site of which you can be quite proud.

This book covers Joomla 1.5, the most heavily used version of Joomla as of this writing. Joomla 1.6 was released in January 2011, as I was finishing this book. However, as covered in detail in Appendix C, Joomla 1.6 will have a shorter life span than Joomla 1.5. Joomla 1.5 is supported through April 2012, so you have plenty of time to build and enjoy your Joomla 1.5 site.

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