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Is it any good, this new Joomla! book? Don't take my word for it -- ask a reader! This is what www.slashdot.org says: If you want to build and maintain your own web site, the Joomla! Beginner's Guide is perfect for you"I just recently received Packt's new Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide by Tiggeler. If you're new to Joomla!, this is one of the best titles out there in terms of helping you get started with your first (perhaps second or third) Joomla! site. Tiggeler does a nice job covering all of the basics: everything from downloading and installing Joomla on a server, configuring it, and confirming the installation to working with and then removing the sample data that Joomla provides. The book lives up to its promise by including a chapter that promises the reader they'll have a site up and running in about an hour. Based on my own experiences, I suspect that, for most intermediate developers, Tiggeler is right; for beginners, expect to take a little more time." http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/06/01/1150233/Joomla-15-Beginners-Guide This is what Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos says: I positively recommend this book"Overall I found this book to be a great read for people who have no idea about web technologies, but want to get a site built on the cheap and very fast. It is very thorough and absolutely easy to read and follow in the expense of only scratching the surface of what Joomla! can do. So, if you want to get started building sites without any prior experience, or want to help a friend of yours accomplishing this goal, I positively recommend this book." http://www.dionysopoulos.me/blog/joomla-15-beginners-guide-full-review This is Eike Pierstorff's opinion: The Joomla! Beginners Guide could very well serve as a benchmark for other writers"Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide by Eric Tiggeler is the book that will get you started with Joomla." "This is where the Joomla! Beginner's guide comes in handy: It introduces new terminology step by step and in the order in which you will need it - no back and forth between different chapters necessary. And while each section introduces new terms and concepts on a need-to-know basis for the task at hand, by the end of the book you will have a pretty complete picture of what you can do with Joomla." "I can still say that, specific software aside, the Joomla! Beginners Guide could very well serve as a benchmark for other writers; this is how introductory material should be written." http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/2010/04/28/joomla-1-5-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide/ |
