The Joomla Book

Thanks for visiting www.joomlabook.com.

If you are here, you have either purchased Joomla 1.5- A User's Guide, or hopefully are just about to! This site is the companion site for this new book about Joomla 1.5 published by Prentice Hall. This site is an important part of the book, an experiment in print and web publishing!

Get the Joomla 1.5 book

The have-to-have book about 1.5 is now in its 2nd edition and shipping! I think that this book offers amazing value and I have packed it along with some great downloads you get with the book. You get free access to the companion site, www.joomlabook.com. This site features:

an active forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book from a Joomla expert (well, me anyway)
5 fully functional Joomla 1.5 live follow-along examples from the book. You can browse the sites and their backends live online.
downloads of 5 free websites for Joomla 1.5 based on various chapter of the book. These are SQL dumps you can import to instantly give you a completed Joomla site. This means you can create a school, blog or small business site instantly!
4 free tutorial templates and 3 free templates from joomlashack.com including our popular commercial template - JS Aqualine!

Where can you get these?

You can get the Book and the Video separately from Amazon:

Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (2nd Edition) $26.69 (save 34%)
Fundamentals of Joomla! (Video Training) $44.09 (save 37%)

Barnes and Noble are doing an exclusive bundle deal of a Fundamentals Joomla Video Training & Users Guide Package - $52.49 (save 25%)

Free Safari Books Online Webcast on Joomla

Joomla Book Join me next week for the 2nd in the series of free Joomla webcasts from Safari Books Online.

Its on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 1:00 pm EST and I'll be looking at how you can take advantage of the more advanced features of Joomla to make a successful website for your organization or business.

10 attendees will get signed copies of the best selling Joomla book - Joomla - A User's Guide. The last webcast filled up quickly, so make sure you register now!

Head over to Slashdot and checkout the great new review of Joomla:

Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide, 2nd Edition is to be recommended, particularly when matched with the DVD training course. Together they form a valuable reference guide and self-teaching tool, for newbies as well as seasoned website developers.

http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/1317218/Joomla-15-A-Users-Guide-2nd-Edition

I am very excited that some great new resources to learn how to Joomla are now available, Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (2nd Edition) and Fundamentals of Joomla! (Video Training)!

The second edition of the book is an update of the best selling book on Joomla, bringing it up to date with the latest version of Joomla 1.5. It also has a completely new chapter on marketing your site and SEO, two topics that change continuously.

The Joomla Video Training is a completely new release. Its a packed 9 hour training video on Joomla 1.5. You can listen as I explain some of the most difficult Joomla concepts, like sections and categories and creating your site navigation.

If you'd like to get some insight into the background behind these new releases, you can head over to cmswire and Dee-Ann LeBlanc's interview about them.

A 2nd edition of the #1 best selling book on Joomla is in production!

The release date is Q1/Q2 in 2009, and the book will be updated to match the fast paced releases of Joomla 1.5!

Learn How to Joomla with Videos

Joomla - A User's Guide has been the #1 best selling book on Joomla! Thousands of new Joomla users have used it to build great looking and successful websites.

The author, Barrie North is recognized as a world class educator on Joomla. His blog compassdesigns.net is the most read blog on Joomla today.

Learning how to Joomla is just about to get alot easier, Prentice Hall will be publishing a Video series based on the book. It includes over 10 hours of expert Joomla instruction, and 4 over-the-shoulder case studies where you can see step by step the creation of four different Joomla websites.

The release date is Q1/Q2 in 2009, available on DVD and on iTunes