Tài liệu Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

About the Authors
Cory Webb is a web designer and developer and the owner of CoryWebbMedia, LLC, where he specializes
in building web sites with the premier content management system (CMS), Joomla!. He is perhaps
best known for his instructional site, HowToJoomla.net, where he shares his insights and experiences
through tips and tricks for beginning Joomla! users. Since the inception of HowToJoomla.net, he has written
dozens of articles that have been well received by the Joomla! community. He has received numerous
accolades such as ‘‘Sweet Jesus, thank you! I spent a day and a half looking for this bit of code! You’ve
saved my sanity!’’ and ‘‘Thank You! I REALLY needed this solution!’’ He began working with Joomla!’s
predecessor, Mambo, in 2003 when he was given the task of building a web site for his employer. After
an exhaustive search for the right CMS, he found Mambo and never looked back. In May 2006, Cory
started working part-time as a freelance developer for JoomlaShack.com. In February 2008, he parlayed
that freelance work into a full-time career as the founder of Cory Webb Media, LLC.

Acknowledgments
The Joomla! project was founded on the principle that open source matters, and that a truly successful
open source project is only successful with a thriving community. I would like to thank the Joomla! core
team, working group members, contributors, and countless other volunteers who have worked together
to build one of the best open source projects in the world.
I would also like to thank the kind people at Wrox for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts,
insights, and experience with the Joomla! community. This has been a truly humbling and rewarding
experience, and I am grateful for every minute of it. Special thanks to Jenny Watson for approaching
me about the possibility of writing a book about my favorite CMS. Thank you also to the development
editor, Sydney Jones, whose patience and encouragement have helped me get through this process more
than she’ll ever know. I also want to thank Shane Sevo, the technical editor. His insights and suggestions
have been tremendously helpful in making this book the best it can be. Thank you also to the rest of the
Wrox team who have worked to bring this book to the Joomla! community.
Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank my wife Carly for supporting me throughout this whole
process. She put up with many weeks of long hours, late nights, and a cranky, sleep-deprived husband.
From the bottom of my heart, I could not have done this without her.