Building Website with Joomla!

My work consists of activities like lecturing, advising, listening, testing and trying, programming,
learning how to understand structures, trying to get to the bottom of things, and constantly testing
again. This means customers in different countries, with different languages and cultures. A lot of
these activities can be done online. But I am often on the road for weeks on end. Long car, bus or
train trips; short to extremely short response times for email customer inquiries.
This type of work has ramifications on what we used to call an office.
Five years ago, it was normal to store e-mails on your home or office computer. Today, various
service providers are offering almost inexhaustible disk space for these purposes. In larger
companies, terminal servers are becoming more and more influential. The bandwidth of Internet
connections is increasing; maybe in my village soon as well!
The terminal with which you and I access our information becomes ever less important. What you
really need is a stable, affordable Internet connection over WLAN, UMTS, telephone, or satellite,
a browser, a screen that can display the information, and a keyboard that is as ergonomic as
possible and, of course, electricity. You can access your pool of e-mails, pictures, and documents
from anywhere in the world.
In this world, a company, an institution, an association, an organization needs an Internet presence
that is also user-friendly and flexible. One that is in tune with the times, one that can be easily
modified from a browser, and that replaces your briefcase and your address directory, that can
communicate with all kinds of systems, and that is easily expanded.
This website is the place where you can explain to others what you do, and/or what your company
does. It is the place that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to maintain your customer
relations. Until recently, the production of such a homepage was a difficult thing. You didn't have to
be a designated specialist, but a certain perseverance combined with an interest in the topic was
necessary to produce an appealing result. You had to create static HTML pages with an HTML
editor and subsequently load them onto a server via File Transfer Protocol. To provide even the
simplest interactivity like a guest book or a forum, you had to learn a programming language. Many
people, for understandable reasons, were reluctant to take on this hardship and therefore either
handed the production of their homepage to a web agency or decided to not even start such a project.
But rescue is near, because what you now have in your hand, this book, is the travel guide to
Joomla!, one of the smartest website administration system of the world.