What to Expect From the New Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia Book

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia Book
A new Joomla! how-to guide has just been released by Packtpub. Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia book is an excellent step-by-step guide, that is loaded with background information as well as screen shots, to help anyone looking to create a multimedia-rich website with Joomla.

Packtpub has released a new book entitled Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, written by Allan Walker. Packtpub is well known for publishing a variety of excellent books for specific technologies and solutions. The goal of their books is to allow IT professionals share their experiences and solutions to adapting and customizing frameworks, systems, and applications. They have made the book available in PDF format as well as a hard copy. The hard-copy has a cover price of $44.99, the e-book retails at $35.99, and the combo pack retails at $75.50. Fortunately, there are substantial discounts at the Packtpub website.

The author of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia is Allen Walker. He is well known for hist online business “Amplify”, which is a consultant and development firm. He has been a part of several large scale Joomla! Projects and has even been involved with getting Joomla! Integrated into the UK government as well as the private sector. He is also involved with the 2009 Joomla! Google Summer of Code program as well as being actively involved as a member of the Joomla! Marketing team.

The goal of the book is to provide step by step instructions to help newer programmers to create a media-rich Joomla! Website through both HTML as well as free Joomla! Extensions. The goal of this book is to teach website developers and Joomla! administrators how to create media-rich content elements as well as interactive features into their site. This book is designed so that even the newest designer can understand it.

Here is a quick look at what Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia covers:

  1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Joomla! Multimedia
  2. Chapter 2: Managing Your Joomla! Media
  3. Chapter 3: Text, Characters, and Fonts in Your Joomla! Site
  4. Chapter 4: Adding and Managing Image Content
  5. Chapter 5: Using Audio in Your Joomla! Website
  6. Chapter 6: Using Video in Your Joomla! Website
  7. Chapter 7: Collaborating with External Sources
  8. Chapter 8: Joomla! Templates and Multimedia
  9. Chapter 9: Joomla! Multimedia Project
  10. Appendix: Extension Types and How to Install Them

The book is extremely comprehensive and is full of screen shots that help guide users through every step by step process that are covered.

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