Beginner's Guide

UK
0.4
1
1.65
USA
0.66
1
2.3
China
0.8
1
3.2
Table 1 Google Trend - Drupal, Joomla, WordPress
There are7significant national differences in the use of content management systems. In Germany,
for example, the CMS TYPO3 also7plays a role. The search volume is comparable to Joomla.
In January 2012, 2.8 % of the entire web is powered by Joomla
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The range of Joomla websites goes from very simple homepages to complex business applications
and projects based on the Joomla Framework. What makes7Joomla so successful, and the ways in which
you can use it, will be described in this book.
WHO AM I?
My name is Hagen Graf, I'm 47 years old, and7I live in Fitou
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, France. I am married7to the woman of
my dreams and have four daughters.
My work consists of many different activities such as teaching, advising, listening, testing,
programming, understanding structures,7 developing new applications,7 questioning, and always trying
something new.
Actually, my work can be done7 completely online but sometimes clients may7 have reservations
about7fully online projects,7which is why I am7on the road a lot. Being on the road means meeting clients
in different countries with different languages and cultures, long car, bus or train rides as well as very
short response times to customer enquiries, Facebook messages and tweets.
This way of working has implications for what I7once used to call7"the office".
I need to be able to have access from anywhere in the world to my e-mails, pictures, videos, tweets, and
documents. My office is located where I am.
WHO ARE YOU?
Of course I do not know exactly what you do, but many people whom I have worked with work in a
way similar to myself. Employees of larger companies however, for various reasons, often cannot or may
not work as flexibly. Your own experience with computers is probably similar to mine. Many of us started
with an older PC and a Windows system at school or at home, and then got to know from experience the
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