Used book – Joomla! 3.8 - Create and manage your website, Didier Mazier

Joomla! is one of the best CMS (Content Management Systems); free, it allows you to create powerful websites and stands out from its competitors with its very advanced native features. Since version 3, it offers a high-performance MVC architecture, a responsive design (adapting to mobile devices) based on Bootstrap, increased processing speed, as well as reliability and security. Version 3.8, with advancements such as customizable fields, offers multiple applications: e-commerce, education, social networks, etc.

This book is aimed at beginners and experienced users alike who want to discover the strengths of version 3.8. It provides detailed step-by-step explanations for a progressive mastering of this version of Joomla! to build powerful websites.

You will learn how to install and configure a website with Joomla!, how to take advantage of advanced access and editing rights management for multiple users, how to manage the graphic aspect of the site with templates (graphic models) and how to use frameworks (work platforms) that will save you valuable time in customizing your site by avoiding tedious lines of code!

You will understand how content is structured and how to deploy the best organization of articles, categories, fields, and modules.

The construction of a multilingual site will be studied in detail; you will also explore navigation and search tools. The strength of Joomla! lies in its extensibility, so you will see how to install and configure extensions, components, modules, plugins, all free, to increase your site's functions: multimedia content, Google Maps... And, with the complete e-commerce system Hikashop, you will learn how to create and configure an online store.

A chapter is dedicated to SEO for your site. The book concludes with a presentation of the main site administration and optimization functions: social media integration, statistics, but also security, maintenance, backup, and updates.