Welcome to the Joomla SEO Club and Book

Who is the Book for?

Strengths

• Barrie's writing style is easy-to-read and flows well.
• Thoroughly illustrated. Especially in the early parts of the book, theres an illustration on every page.
• The book is comprehensive - at over 420 pages, it clocks in at twice the size of some other Joomla guides.
  
• There's an accompanying support forum for follow-up questions.
  

Weaknesses

• It was written before the stable launch of 1.5 so things mentioned in the book have changed slightly.
• The book does contain affiliate links (but then so does this blog post)
  

Overall Impression

This book is a quantum leap forward over Barrie's previous "Joomla! Admin Manual". How do I know? His previous book had a lot of the same flaws as my SEO Book when it was first published. It was a collection of blog posts rounded out into a book, with a lot of the normal problems of self-publishing including typos and substandard organization.

Barrie has worked hard on making this new book much better and enlisting the help of a professional publishing company has clearly paid off. "Joomla! a Users Guide" is 50% longer and has replaced the bloggy-style with slick text and clear organization. Readers seem to think so too - its now the best rated Joomla! book on Amazon.

Further Reading

• Reviews of the book on Amazon.com
• Homepage for the book
• Interview with Barrie
  
• Review of the Barrie's Admin Manual for 1.0
• More Joomla Books
  

Comments (1)

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written by Webhostingpad, February 24, 2008

I have bought this book and I 100% satisfy with this. The guideline is very clear and everything is there! thumb up!!!

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