books

Cleveland, OH, January 25, 2012

"Joomla! 1.7: Beginner's Guide" and "Joomla! Development: A Beginner's Guide" has been nominated for a 2012 Small Business Book Award in the category of Technology.

Joomla! 1.7 Beginner's Guide	Joomla! Development - A Beginner's Guide

The Small Business Book Awards recognize business books that were published in 2011. Small business owners often seek advice and information through books. While there are many thousands of books published each year, it's those of interest to small businesses and entrepreneurs that the Small Business Book Awards seek to honor.

"With so many books being published each year, we wanted to recognize those that made a difference to small business owners and managers and startup entrepreneurs," said Ivana Taylor, Book Editor at Small Business Trends, which produces the Awards. "Our annual Small Business Book Awards are a way to highlight the books that entrepreneurs are reading and learning from."

The Awards are an honor to the authors who write books for the small business and entrepreneurial community. Says Anita Campbell, CEO of Small Business Trends, "For many of the authors, writing a book is a labor of love. Often they get up early in the morning before the rest of the family awakes, and they devote their evenings, weekends, holidays and vacations to writing. They deserve recognition."

We are pleased to announce that the most read Joomla! 1.7 book is now available in Russian and, of course, as a free pdf.

The book is available in various formats. You have the choice between

• the free HTML version online.
• the free pdf - Руководство для начинающего пользователя Joomla! 1.7.
• a printed paperback book for 15 €
• an EPUB version for 6.99 €

It is still possible to advertise and in that way to fund the creators and co-workers of the book.

The book has been translated by Alexey Baskinov (joomru).

Props to him for his big efforts and work!

We are pleased to announce that the most read Joomla! 1.7 book is now available in Danish and, of course, as a free pdf.

The book is available in various formats. You have the choice between

• the free HTML version online.
• the free pdf - Joomla! 1.7 - Begynder Guide

• a printed paperback book for 15 €

• an EPUB version for 6.99 €

It is still possible to advertise and in that way to fund the creators and co-workers of the book.

The book has been translated by Rikke Alrø (redWEB) and proof readed by Ole Bang Ottosen.

Props to both for their big efforts and work!

We are pleased to announce that the most read Joomla! 1.7 book is now available in Spanish and, of course, as a free pdf.

The book is available in various formats. You have the choice between

• the free HTML version online.
• the free pdf - Joomla! 1.7 - Guía para Principiantes

• a printed paperback book for 15 €

• an EPUB version for 6.99 €
• ES amazon.es Kindle Edition
• US amazon.com Kindle Edition
• DE amazon.de Kindle Edition
• FR amazon.fr Kindle Edition
• IT amazon.it Kindle Edition
• UK amazon.co.uk Kindle Edition

It is still possible to advertise and in that way to fund the creators and co-workers of the book.

The book has been translated by Isidro Baquero (gnumla).

Props to him for his big efforts and work!

Because a few people asked me I just created a widget to embed the download links for the free Joomla! PDF books into your website.

The idea is to give other websites the possibility to offer the link to the free PDF's on their website. If someone clicks the link, the PDF will be downloaded immediately without leaving your website.

In the header area I inserted a link to our website ... well ... I am always looking for sponsors :).

I am not sure whether it is a good idea but I would like to hear your opinion. 

You find the embed code below the download box in the right sidebar.

Now I need someone to test and help me to tweak it :)

Please help me and embed it where you want and please give me feedback on layout, whether it works or not, etc.

[UPDATE]

It is working but it'll break the css of the templates ... tested in Joomla! and WordPress (thanks to @robertvining, @jwillin, @k2joom). Stay tuned :)

[UPDATE 2]

Deleted the embed code thing ... doesn't work very good. Instead I created a Joomla! module for that :)

For the last three months we have used the e-commerce system at our cocoate site to manage the free downloads.

I basically wanted and still want to know how many pdfs were downloaded and from which part of the world. The checkout process additionally gave the possibility to the downloaders to donate something and a few people did - Thank you for that.

We received a lot of comments concerning the checkout process. Some people complained that the pdfs are not for free anymore if it is necessary to provide an email and your country. Other people liked the process because afterwards they had a user account on cocoate and all their downloads on one place.

Nevertheless I agree that the process was too complicated for a free download and so we simplified it radically!