Professional Joomla!

This book covers all the new features that will be included in the Joomla 1.6 release, as well as the previous version. Coverage will include the new standardized titles and menus of the Administrator interface and extensive examples for version deployment and in-depth discussion of the underlying technology and deployment issues. Finer points of configuration, custom templates, design patterns, the Joomla! application framework, advanced plug-in's, optimizing, and security will all be covered. Joomla! Source code for version control will be included in the book and accompanying WROX web site. Other content highlights
* Current in-depth content to address the increased sophistication of professional Joomla users
* Content reflects industry changes in the use and deployment of Joomla! where the development community has created better practices such as MooTools (included with Joomla) and jQuery, which now include robust AJAX capabilities that can be implemented with a minimum amount of code.
* Extensive coverage of how to use one or more of the object frameworks for an AJAX implementation