Barrie North - Author of Joomla - A User's Guide Simplweb- The Joomla Book

Barrie North - Author of Joomla 1.5 - A User's Guide

Leading Joomla consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and more. You’ll find never-before-published Joomla tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise.

Experienced with Joomla? You’ll constantly turn to this book for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla 1.5 reference content.

Understand content management, what Joomla does, and how its components fit together
Build Joomla sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables
Create dynamic pages and effective Joomla navigation
Work with Joomla modules and components
Search engine optimization (SEO) for Joomla sites
Start-to-finish Joomla case studies: building a school website, a small business brochure site, and a blog
The most valuable Joomla extensions and add-ons: how to find them and use them

Barrie North has more than 20 years of experience with the Internet as a user, designer, and teacher. He has spent more than 8 years in the education field, becoming steadily more involved in web technology, teaching web design classes to students and technology integration to teachers. Most recently, he worked as an IT consultant for two new schools pioneering the use of technology. As well as web design, he has provided web marketing/SEO, usability, and standards compliance expertise to his clients.

Barrie North is a founder of Joomlashack.com, one of the oldest and most popular Joomla template providers, and www.simplweb.com, a service that provides easy-to-use, turnkey Joomla hosting for those new to Joomla. He also maintains a blog about all things Joomla at www.compassdesigns.net. When not working, he can frequently be found on the Joomla community boards, and he has written many free tutorials for using Joomla. Barrie lives in South Strafford, Vermont.

He is the author of the best-selling book "Joomla - A User's Guide", currently in its 3rd edition. Barrie has also released a comprehensive Livelesson Joomla Video series, both published by Prentice.

You can reach Barrie at barrienorth|at|compassdesigns.net.