{"id":589,"date":"2008-12-30T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2008-12-30T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:46:19","slug":"book-review-building-website-with-joomla-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Building Website with Joomla! 1.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/\">Packt Publishing<\/a> sent me a complimentary copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/Joomla\">&#8220;Building Website with Joomla! 1.5&#8221;<\/a> by Hagen Graf to review.  I specifically was interested in this book as I was researching the use of Joomla! as part of redoing an elementary school website.<\/p>\n<p>First off, the book was well organized.  It begins with an introduction to web content management systems and the role they play today in web sites, covers a brief history of Joomla!, and then focuses the rest of the book on the installation and configuration options.  As a first time Joomla! user, I can definitely say that the book helped me out quite a bit in understanding the way things were configured.  Chapters 4 through 12 focus on different areas of Joomla!, including menus, extensions, components, and content in sufficient detail to make a useful reference but in a way that a first time user can get through the configuration.  As a reference, this is the book&#8217;s strong point.<\/p>\n<p>Where I was a bit disappointed was that I was look more for a tutorial, rather than a pure reference book.  Given that I was setting up a new site using Joomla! for the first time, I was hoping for an extended step by step approach that would take me through a complete site development.  While there is a chapter in the book called &#8220;A Website with Joomla!,&#8221; it was only 12 pages long and was presented more in the context of a demonstration than a tutorial.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I was pleased with the book.  I think it will be a useful reference as I develop the site, but I also think I&#8217;ve still got more work ahead of me to get the site out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packt Publishing sent me a complimentary copy of &#8220;Building Website with Joomla! 1.5&#8221; by Hagen Graf to review. I specifically was interested in this book as I was researching the use of Joomla! as part of redoing an elementary school website. First off, the book was well organized. It begins with an introduction to web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}