Joomla
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At the heart of every Web site
project is the need to organize and present content.
For the last 10 years, static sites have dominated
the Internet landscape, and site maintenance has
been a laborious and often frustrating process. Web
masters had to cope with thousands of line of HTML
code across a mass of Web page files. However,
employing a dynamic site required a large amount of
custom coding and potential unforeseen security
loopholes. The release of the Joomla content
management system (CMS) in 2005 opened a new age of
affordable, advanced Web site deployment. Content
management was now possible without any programming
required, yet the flexibility of the Joomla system
allowed the creation of robust add-ons to augment
the CMS. As tens of thousands of developers flocked
to Joomla and the availability of add-ons reached
critical mass (almost 1700 at last count), Joomla
became the most important noncommercial CMS in the
world. It has become a major force in allowing Web
masters to perform site deployment and management
without the grueling effort.
This widespread
adoption has opened numerous opportunities for
professional Joomla developers. With the number of
downloads of the Joomla system having surpassed 2.5
million by mid-2007, developers can find a ready
audience for their work. Whether you’re creating an
XHTML-compliant template to sell to a subscription
site, providing expert Joomla consulting services,
or releasing a Joomla extension into the open source
community for widespread adoption, there is a place
for you in the wide world of Joomla. With the
diverse needs of professional readers in mind, I
wrote this book with the intention that you would
turn the last page with an understanding of Joomla
second only to full-time developers or the Joomla
development team members. Between these covers, I
have tried to provide examples of the two main
areas of the professional Joomla field: development
and deployment.
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