Chapter 1: Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Your Web Site In this chapter you'll learn why you'd want to use Joomla!: to create a cool looking, feature-rich site that's easy to expand, customize, and maintain. Chapter 2: Installation: Getting Joomla! Up and Running You'll learn how to install Joomla! on your own computer or on a web server, and how to install a sample site. Chapter 3: First Steps: Getting to Know Joomla! In this chapter you'll get familiar with the basic concepts of Joomla!: the Joomla! interface and the principles of a web site constructed out of 'building blocks'. Chapter 4: Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an Hour Face a Real-Life Challenge In this chapter you'll use Joomla! to build a basic but expandable web site fast customizing Joomla! 's default sample site to fit your needs, adding content, menu links, and changing the site's look and feel. Chapter 5: Small Sites, Big Sites: Organizing Your Content Effectively Making it easy to add and find information on your site: designing a clear, expandable, manageable structure for your content. Chapter 6: Creating Killer Content: Adding and Editing Articles In this chapter, you'll learn to create content pages that are attractive and easy to read, and you'll learn about different ways to tweak the page layout. Chapter 7: Welcoming Your Visitors: Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages When you've got your content set up, you'll create a home page and overview pages to entice visitors to actually read all your valuable content. Chapter 8: Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want: Managing Menus In this chapter, you'll practice designing clear and easy navigation through menus. How can you help the visitors to find what they want easily? Chapter 9: Opening Up the Site: Enabling Users to Contribute and Interact You'll learn how to enable users to log in and allow them to create content and manage the web site. Enable visitors to register and give them exclusive access to premium content. Another powerful way to get visitors involved is to allow them to leave comments. Chapter 10: Getting the Most out of Your Site: Extending Joomla! In this chapter, you'll learn how to extend Joomla!'s capabilities using all sorts of extensions: using an image gallery to attractively display pictures, automatically showing article teasers on the home page, or enhancing your workspace by installing an easier content editor. Chapter 11: Creating an Attractive Design: Working with Templates Templates will give your site a fresh look and feel and make it easy to create an individual look, different from a typical Joomla! site. You'll learn how to install and customize templates. Chapter 12: Attracting Search Engine Traffic This chapter shows you how to increase your site's visibility for search engines applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, such as creating friendly URLs. Appendix - Keeping the Site Secure In this chapter you'll learn simple, common sense steps you can take to keep your site safe from hackers.
