Book Description
Money-making weapons for your Joomla! website
- Learn to set up a cash-generating Joomla! website
- Learn to implement a shopping cart on Joomla!
- How to run an affiliate program from your site
- Set up streams of income using Joomla!
- Gain valuable search-engine ranking knowledge
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.
What you will learn from this book?
- 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
Approach
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!
Who this book is written for?
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.
About the Author
Brandon Dawson
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 athenainternet.com.
He enjoys building websites, hiking, cycling, and spending time with his fiancée and their son. 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 joomlawarrior.com and brandondawson.org.
Tom Canavan
A twenty-three year veteran of the Computer Business, and a CIO at a thriving dot-com, Tom Canavan has a degree in Robotics and Numerical Control. He is author of the book Dodging the Bullets – A Disaster Preparation Guide for Joomla! Based Websites.
Book Details
- Paperback: 180 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 3, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847191401
- ISBN-13: 978-1847191403
- File Size: 10.4 MiB
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