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Joomla 1.7 - beginners guide
Some words from Hagen Graf: www.cocoate.com
Last time, with the Joomla! 1.6 - Beginner's Guide, I offered the PDF of the book as a free download and the HTML version for free, too. People loved that and downloaded the free book more than 50,000 times since March 2011. Hope you enjoyed reading and learned a few things.
From a business point of view, the free book was 'not that successful' for our company. :) For the 1.7 project we thought about the dilemma between offering a free book and covering the costs for the creation process and how to solve it. The result was the idea of sponsoring and offering discounts for the readers. I asked several Joomla! related companies at #jab11 to sponsor a chapter. In the beginning it was a bit hard to describe and often they thought this guy is a bit crazy, but now, since the release date of Joomla! 1.7 you can read and download the book.
This book, as every book, has chapters, an outline, many screenshots and it covers the newest technology available in the "Joomlaverse".
It is based on the successful Joomla! 1.6 - Beginner's Guide and extended with more chapters. All the existing chapters are reworked and new screenshots were taken, where it was necessary. It has now 255 pages.
