Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development /by Chuck Lanham (Author), James Kennard (Author). Joomla! is one of the world s top open source content management systems, which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to enhance the functionality of your website.

The hands-on example projects in this book are based on fictitious website development briefs, and they illustrate practical ways of applying Joomla! The book dives straight into the process of constructing the featured projects. A chapter is dedicated to each example website project. Each chapter is a separate project booklet, written independently of any other chapter.

- A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast
- Walk through each step in a friendly and accessible way
- Customize and extend your Joomla! site
- Get your Joomla! website up fast

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.

Create and customize a professional Joomla! site that suits your business requirements

- Adapt your site to get a unique appearance, features, and benefits of your choice
- Save on development costs by learning how to do professional work yourself and solve common problems with a Joomla! site
- Step through how to build an effective subscription-based business with Joomla! and market a site effectively
- Understand and customize modules, plugins, components, and templates
- A precise book packed with examples and careful explanations

JoomlArt November template JA Seleni now launched! The theme enriches our current magazine/reviews concept collection beside JA Teline III and other available series. We propose it as a candidate for business/reviews/magazine portal, not only with neat looking but also adaptive functionalities.
Given "content the first", JA Seleni extends Joomla! core capacity in terms of content management via JoomlArt favorite addons i.e. JA News, JA Newsticker, JA Tabs, JA Contentslider, JA Bulletin. These pieces of functionalities inherit advantageous T3 framework helpfully facilitating your efforts to get optimized on SEO, handheld device compatibility, RTL language support as well as modular development. As a plus, the JA Mega menu, a web 2.0-oriented menu is another worthy enhancement to your site navigation. Four other menu types are also in the built-in set.
Creating a nice Joomla site handy than ever, with up to 5 color variants! JA Seleni shall be a ready-to-use whistle easy-to-customize web page solution.
An Overview of JA Seleni features:
* Modern and beautiful web typeface
* 3 columns layout based template
* 5 color options: Default, orange, brown, green, violet
* Tableless design and 100% CSS-based
* Joomla 1.5.x compatible
* 5 Menu options: JA Split menu, JA Css menu, JA Moo menu, JA Dropline menu, JA Mega menu
* XHTML 1.0 Transitional Check it ?
* CSS Validates Check it ?
* Valid 508 Accessibility
* Delivered with source .PSD and FONT files, Demo site sample database and detailed user guide which can be found in JA Seleni downdoad and JA Seleni forum.
* Well-commented template_css.css and index.php file for flexible customization
* Cross Browser Support