Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide, a new book that will help newbies to get started with Joomla! and quickly go beyond the basics. Written by Eric Tiggeler, an experienced Joomla! tutorial writer as well as the author of a Dutch Joomla! Manual, this beginner's guide will help readers build and maintain impressive user-friendly websites with Joomla! 1.5.

Joomla! is an award-winning open-source Content Management System, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It is written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide is a practical book that gives readers a head start in using Joomla! 1.5. Readers will learn to build dynamic, interactive websites that are easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also explains how attractive home pages can be designed with clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks.

Through this book, readers will learn to make full use of templates to make their website look attractive by tweaking the CSS, customizing templates and using custom logos, fonts, and colors. It will also help developers engage website visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments. In addition to this, the book will teach users to increase their site's visibility on search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.

Developers who wish to build and maintain their website using Joomla! 1.5 as well as newbie’s to the subject will find this book a beneficial and interesting read. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-beginners-guide/book.

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, a new book that will help developers build media-rich Joomla! websites by learning to embed and display multimedia content. Written by Allan Walker, an experienced Joomla developer and a member of the Joomla! Marketing Team, this book is a step-by-step tutorial to create a feature-packed media-rich Joomla! site. It will also help to build a livelier Joomla! website with videos, audios, images by using popular multimedia extensions.

Joomla! is the world’s hottest open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia is a practical guide that shows how to include popular media elements into a website and collaborate with external web resources such as YouTube, Flickr and Google. It will teach readers to create regular podcasts and utilize RSS to help publicize and deliver their website content. Additionally, it also highlights the benefits of multimedia features and warns of the accessibility issues that can arise when they are misused.

Using this book, developers will be able to manage their Joomla! multimedia elements using FTP and the Media Manager. It will also help them to enhance their website by using video content effectively and teach them the effects of fonts, characters, and text. Developers will learn to add and manage image content to make the best impact for their website owners in addition to creating and managing podcasts.

With a step-by-step tutorial approach, this book is ideal for Joomla! developers and website administrators who want to add media-rich content elements and interactive features to their website, and collaborate with external resources. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-multimedia/book

About 3 weeks ago, you helped us exploring alternatives to Joomla’s default sidebar module position names. Well, Morph is now on its way to take a bold step in moving away from the default module position names for it’s sidebars.

Problem

When you build a new website with Joomla’s sample content, it uses “left” and “right” positions to assign the default modules. Most likely, this is also how you have it on your existing live site that you want to convert to Morph.

Solution

The sidebar module migrator tool helps you move your existing modules assigned to the left/right module positions over to the new ones. It works both ways, so whether you are moving to the new positions or moving back, we have you covered.

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For more information about the Morph Toolset, framework and themelets, go to www.joomlajunkie.com .

On Morph's new documentation site you will find everything from help videos, tutorials, faq's and more.

In order to really get the most out of Morph, it's highly recommend you go through the available documentation, as many of the concepts used in Morph are new and require a bit of understanding to best utilize.

Take your time, it's worth it!

CATEGORIES

Getting Started - Gives you the basics to get up and running quickly.
Configurator - This component puts you in the driving seat of your Joomla website.
Themelets - Customize your themelet using Configurator and/or custom CSS.
Page Layouts - Information about working with Morph's flexible page layouts.
Module System - Information about working with Morph's powerful module system.
Menu System - Information about working with the various menu options built into Morph.
Typography - How to work with Morph's built in typography features.
Developer Docs - How seasoned Joomla users tap into Morph's more advanced features.
Help Videos - Here you find all video tutorials and guides about Morph and themelets.
FAQ's - A list of frequently answered questions related to the Morph toolset.
Troubleshooting - First place to look if you run into error messages or other problems.
Themelet Guides - Information about how to get setup with your themelets.

GO TO http://www.prothemer.com/blog/tutorials/documentation-for-morph-now-available/ for more information.