Product Description

Learn how to develop a high quality social network using JomSocial

• Create and run your own social network with Joomla! and JomSocial
• Creating content for the social network and integrating it with other Joomla! extensions
• Community building and interactions

In Detail

JomSocial is a social publishing platform for Joomla! content management system. It allows you to connect with friends, integrate videos, follow users’ activity stream, share photos, create groups, and customize your brand.

JomSocial is an out-of-the-box extension that enables a Joomla! website administrators to set up a social network with ease, and customize it to meet the needs of a site. By the end of the book, the reader will have built a good looking, fully functional social networking site using this hands-on guide.

Social networks have become ubiquitous in the 21st Century and have changed the way we communicate. No longer used to simply keep in contact with friends, they are used by multimillion dollar businesses to promote new products, discuss the latest ideas, and receive customer feedback on a much more informal platform.

This practical tutorial will guide the reader through the installation of JomSocial on a Joomla! platform, to configure it for complete integration with Joomla!, and help to walk through processes for integrating other key Joomla! plugins into JomSocial as applications for interaction in an online social networking environment. The guide wraps it all up by hooking up our JomSocial-enabled social network with Facebook and Twitter using identifiable Joomla! modules

Product Description

Enhance your Joomla! Sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more

• Build impressive Joomla! Sites with JavaScript and jQuery
• Create your own Joomla!, jQuery-powered, extensions
• Enhance your site with third-party features, code-highlighting, Flicker, and more using Joomla! Plugins
• Detailed explanations with step-by-step guidance and practical examples

In Detail

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.

This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site. The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.

First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.

By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.

Build impressive Joomla! Sites with jQuery, from third-party extensions to development