References
From Joomla! Documentation
Joomla! main web site[edit]
- http://www.joomla.org/ Links to everything but be careful you do not get lost!
Books[edit]
As Joomla! becomes very widely used, so more books are available about it aimed at various levels of experience. It may seem strange to recommend books for an on-line application. But interestingly - the book has not died as a result of on-screen documentation. Studies have shown that people read differently on-screen than they read on paper, it even makes sense to use books as well as on-line resources. Here are some that add to the on-screen documentation.
- Jennifer Marriott and Elin Waring, The Official Joomla! Book Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010. Part of the Joomla! Press series. (Just published - I have not seen this yet)
- Ric Shreves, Joomla! Bible, Wiley, 2010. Comprehensive and practical. A reference book but with a lot of practical things, as well as nuggets of information. Good for developers but also useful for learners.
- Cory Webb, Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development, Wrox Wiley 2009. One of the Programmer to Programmer series. Better for people with a bit of experience of computing in general and web sites in particular. But it has some good parts - including some detailed analysis of Template files.
- Ron Severdia and Kenneth Crowder, Using Joomla, O'Reilly, 2010. A descriptive book in the traditions of the O'Reilly publications. Not for beginners.
- Marni Derr and Tanya Symes, Visual QuickStart Guide: Joomla!, PeachPit Press, 2009. Helpful layout with a lot of screen shots and asides. Some experience of IT is needed but the book leads you along nicely and is written in a straight forward style.
Help on-line[edit]
- General: The Joomla! Help pages are variable in their helpfulness, especially for beginners.
- Most are very good. If you are an experienced reader of Help - they will be useful.
- Beginners may find they do not understand all the vocabulary. But they do become clearer as you get to know Joomla! so do not write them off.
- Remember that Help is intended to contain all possible actions but does not necessarily explain the point of everything.
On-line resources[edit]
- http://magazine.joomla.org/
- http://docs.joomla.org/ The landing page for all Joomla! documentation.
Joomla! documentation[edit]
- Joomla! Administrator's Manual - on-line This will be comprehensive when it is complete.
- Quick start guide This includes descriptions of the Back-end as part of installing and creating a Joomla! site. It is good and helpful.
- Learning Joomla! using Sample Data It has a short section on the Back-end but is also useful in exploring the Sample data in the localhost installation.
Index to other documents in this series[edit]
--Lorna Scammell January 2011