From: Boogie Boydon
 Subject: Website Building with Joomla!

Amazing?! I’d say it's AWESOME!!!

And now you can learn how to build websites like these in 10 easy lessons!

(The physical book is currently available for Philippine residents only at this time. The online eBook version will be back again soon. Please check this page from time to time for announcements.)

Setting up an interactive portal for your company? Building an online store for your business? Creating a sophisticated real-estate management site? Developing a membership site for your organization? How long do you think would each of these take? 

With a content management system and website development platform like Joomla!, building professional-looking, sophisticated, and interactive web-based systems is possible within a short time and at very minimal costs. With Joomla!, the website you only dreamed possible is now within reach and may easily become a reality.

Learn how to design, develop, and deploy Joomla! websites with this 7-day tutorial package that teaches you how to do it in 10 easy lessons.

• Lesson 1: The Joomla! Content Management System 
• The Joomla! Content Management System
•  A Short History of Joomla!
• Joomla! is Template-based

• Lesson 2: Setting Up a Local Joomla! Development Environment
• The Native Joomla! Environment

• Lesson 3: Creating Your First Joomla! Website
• Launching our WampServer
• Creating our First Joomla! Website
• Joomla! Installation
• Creating a Website with Sample Data
  

• Lesson 4: Understanding the Joomla! Template
• Joomla! is Template-based
• How Templates Work
• Installing a Joomla! Template
• Modifying the Joomla! Template

• Lesson 5: Managing and Editing Articles
• Joomla!'s Article Manager
• Joomla! Administrative Panel’s Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Working with Existing Content
• Creating New Content
  

• Lesson 6: The JCE Editor 
• An Improved Editing Experience
• The Joomla! Extensions
• Installing the JCE Editor
• Updating Content

• Lesson 7: Working Your Way Through Menus 
• Introduction to Joomla!’s Menu System
• The Menu Module and Joomla!’s Template Positions
• Managing Menu Items
• Managing the Front Page
• Adding New Menu Items

• Lesson 8 – Enhancing Content Through More Extensions 
• Enhancing Content Presentation
• A Blog-style Way to Present Your Articles
• Other Ways to Present Your Articles
• Enhancing Content through a Commenting Component 
• Dealing with Long Articles
• Tabs and Slides – An Alternative to Pagination
• Article Parameters
  

• Lesson 9 - Preparing a Home for your Website 
• What You Have Learned so Far
• Finalizing Our Website for Publishing
• Using Domain Name Analyzer (DNA)
• Registering Your Domain Name
• Setting Up Your Webhosting
  

• Lesson 10 - Uploading your Website to your Webhost
• Connecting Your Domain Name to Your Webhost
• The cPanel Hosting Control Panel
• Uploading Our Joomla! Website

1. The 210-page book (personally signed by the author) with an accompanying CD that includes:
2. Free Joomla! templates that you can use for your future projects.
3. Installers of programs used in the tutorials.
4. Collection of sample articles that can be used as website content.