Website Design Guide to Joomla! 1.5, Virtuemart & Extensions

I bought this book to help me understand the many facets of Joomla! which it does attempt to do. However, it uses possibly the worst English I have ever seen on a printed page which makes reading it a struggle. It has clearly been transcribed from an audio tape and printed without being proof read, making the text jump around from one subject to another without much continuity. Unusually, there are many self-promoting references included in the text, from hosting to logo design, which makes me think that the book is a self published work that has found its way on to Amazon somehow.There are other problems; on many occasions we are referred to something in a previous chapter which does not exist, and the author describes one approach of installing Joomla! - i.e. via Fantastico and by using Cpanel - to the exclusion of anything else. The screenshots are, in the main, too small to see even with a magnifying glass.Michelle Griffin is obviously a very clever lady, and if you can manage to understand the awful text she does explain what you need to do to make a Joomla! website, albeit with many assumptions along the way. The chapter on Virtuemart is good and there is a lot of practical advice given throughout the book, although it is delivered in a sporadic fashion.In fairness, a visit to her own website shows just how powerful Joomla! can be and how successfully she has constructed it BUT her instructions for emulating this success are, sadly, disjointed and confusingly poor.

Agree with everything in previous review.My main problems are:* Examples of installing are via CPanel* Screenshots are awful. They're so small, you cant read anythingDisappointing as it has so much potential.