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[Barrie North]

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Is that your review or someone elses?

Barrie

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:38 PM, David A. Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>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" <barrie at compassdesigns.net>
>> Subject: [joomla] Need Joomla 1.5 book recommendation for Webmasters
>> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
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>> 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
>>
>>
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