1-84719-140-1Packt Publishing 9781847191403 1847191401Nov-07 List Price: $34.99Paperback164 pages Our Price: $34.99 Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. It is an open-source solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. The emphasis of this book is towards business and online e-commerce; it will give you a valuable knowledge base on search engines, layout and design, implementing a shopping cart, marketing your website, affiliate marketing and more. You will appreciate the concise and straightforward method to set up a cash-generating website. Coverage includes: Tips for generating revenues for your site Setup of your shopping cart Good layout and design for your site VirtueMart shopping cart setup Details of the iDevAffiliate affiliate system Marketing your website This book is a fast and easy read, taking the reader from the inception of an idea, to a fully working cash-generating website built on Joomla! This book is suitable for business people with a medium level of technical skill who need a good primer on how to implement a cash-generating website. Those unfamiliar with Joomla! Would benefit from reading Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1. Brandon Dawson is a 29 year-old website developer from Lancaster, Ohio in the United States. He has completed Joomla! projects for clients ranging from major corporate clients, such as Apple Incorporated, to small local businesses. He maintains a business website at www.athenainternet.com. He enjoys building websites, hiking, cycling, and spending time with his fiancée and their son, Augdin. He is also a huge movie buff from having spent his college years operating a small local movie theatre. He frequents the Joomla! support forums, and maintains personal websites at www.joomlawarrior.com and www.brandondawson.org. Tom Canavan has practically grown up with the Computer industry. He started his career out of college doing component-level repair of barcode readers. From there he moved into a computer systems maintenance position supporting proprietary minis, mainframes, PCs, and networks with a major defense firm. Later he moved to AST Research and then to Dell Computer Corporation where he worked as a Sr. Systems Consultant working with Fortune-500 customers. He has well over twenty-three years working on all facets of computing, networking, and customer problem solving. He has a degree in Robotics and Numerical control from Grayson County College. He is the co-host of a successful Podcast about Joomla! known as JoomlaJabber.com. He is the author of Dodging the Bullets – a disaster preparation guide for Joomla! based websites.