Authors: Steve Holzner, Nancy Conner

Learn to link articles on your site with drop–down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full–site search, let your guests sign up for e–mail lists, and much more. Joomla! For Dummies helps you to:

• Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page
• See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout
• Use templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them to
• Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built–in Joomla! modules
• Build search engine–friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic
• Explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them
• Check into plug–ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do
• Find modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more