Joomla Reference Books and Materials

Below you will find a list recommend books that you can use to learn and reference in your Joomla efforts. These books are available for purchase online at amazon. The book images are links straight to the appropriate page at Amazon.com where you can get more details and purchase the book.

Joomla Reference Books
   
Beginning Joomla! is a great reference and has been in our library form a couple of years now. It is straight forward and covers subject matter for both the beginner and as a refresher for the developer. The book covers all the basic features and even includes a beginning guide to using the e-commerce component VirtueMart.
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It is our choice to get you started. It has been updated in 2009 to better reflect the Joomla 1.5 Improvement.
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5: The best-selling Joomla! tutorial guide updated for the latest 1.5 release
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For those that know the basic concepts and want more detail then this book will assist you in not only getting started but goes into somewhat more depth on most subjects. It also has been updated to keep up with the later Joomla! 1.5 releases.
Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart is the book for those that are using Joomla and VirtueMart as either a E-Commerce shopping cart or an online catalog. This book goes beyond the VirtueMart manual to provide more detail and instruction regarding setting up a online store or catalog. We recommend this book for our customers that will use VirtueMart for their E-Commerce solution.
When you are ready for the deep end "Professional Joomla!" get you wet quickly. This book is not for the beginner and gets into the more technical aspects of Joomla!. The chapter on search engine optimization does a good job of supplying a basis from which you can improve your site ranking.