:) Is that your review or someone elses?
Barrie On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:38 PM, David A. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Now I read this. :-) > > To follow-up my own postings. I'm like most of us, I tell people about > Joomla and then would like to turn over good resources to them so they can > get going on their own. I decided to explore two Joomla books for > recommendations to Webmasters. One is the Visual Quickstart Guide Joomla! by > Marni Derr and Tanya Symes published by Peachpit, and the second one is > Joomla! A User's Guide by Barrie M. North published by Prentice Hall. Both > of these books arrived today so I've not been able to examine them closely > yet, but I did skim through them. North's book in Chapter 11 titled, > "Creating a Restaurant Site for Joomla!" looks like an excellent guide for a > Webmaster. I also like the areas called "The Least You Need to Know" which > is exactly what a Webmaster is looking for. Before anyone gets huffy about > the job title of Webmaster, I am referring to those who are not programmer > types but have responsibility to control content on a web site. The Visual > Quickstart Guide Joomla! is what the name implies as the rest of the Visual > Quickstart series where there are many screen shots with text next to them > briefly explaining each item such as a parameter. > > I'm going to turn these two books over to a Webmaster and see how they do > and what is found to be most useful. It might be the combination of these > two books or merely specific sections from each. I've professionally > enjoyed the work of Barrie North and dig his newsletters and web site. > However, I am looking for Joomla resources for Webmasters as I defined above > since like all of us I want to see Joomla continue to grow and one way is > for the Webmasters to be sold on it. I had a Webmaster search Amazon.com and > come up with these two books independently of my influence. > > > David Roth > > >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:37:19 -0500 >> From: "Barrie North" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [joomla] Need Joomla 1.5 book recommendation for Webmasters >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> I like the one at joomlabook.com ;) >> >> Seriously, you can get the ebook at informit.com, and here is a coupon >> for >> 35% off JOOMLA08 >> >> Good luck! >> >> Barrie North >> >> > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -- Barrie North ~Instant Joomla Sites~ www.simplweb.com
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