This will be a step-by-step tutorial - a workbook with practical approach. The book starts by looking at the important features that make a professional job site: adding and managing jobs, jobseekers and employers, providing online recruitment services, selling credits and managing credit system, SEO to drive huge traffic to your job site, and so on. This book includes a lot of screenshots which not only illustrate tasks but also create a visual impact. This book contains overall necessary information that is important for the understanding of job site development. If you are looking for building and managing a job site using Joomla! extensions then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of using extensions is not expected but Joomla! basics will be required.
Welcome to the first edition of Building Jobsites with Joomla! 1.5. This books provides a new approach for developing jobsites with Joomla!, a popular CMS program that became an affordable solution for website development. Joomla! is absolutely free and available with a GNU/GPL license. It not only saves money and time, but also saves a lot of effort that goes into development. In order for a Joomla! website to function as a jobsite, we need a third-party extension. In this book, we have covered the uses of Instant Php's jobsite extension Jobs! Pro 1.3.2 along with Joomla 1.5. Jobs! is one of the most popular and user-friendly extension's that provides all the features and functionalities of a jobsite. This book will provide stepwise tutorial on administrating Joomla! and Jobs! Pro control panel for building and developing your jobsite properly.