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Packt publishing recently contacted us in order to review their new publication about designing Joomla templates

- Joomla! 1.5 Template Design.

First, answer for few basic questions:

1. Are you interested in creating your own Joomla template from scratch?
2. Do you want to know how to use jdoc include tags template system that Joomla uses?
3. Are you webdesigner with basic knowledge of Joomla and want to make your great designs to work smoothly?
4. Are you familiar with basic HTML/CSS tags and want to anhance your website with more advanced AJAX features?

If answer for two of these questions is true - this book is definetely worth reading.

The author - Tessa Blakeley Silver - covers the most important points crucial for proper template development from her point of view.

Starting from showing to readers proper approach - which is always a good base on start, thru designing the details like typography, to next steps of template development - including coding, debugging, and adding a little more advanced features, this book fulfills the basics of knowledge you need to have in order to be independent Joomla template designer.

What is interesting, from this book you'll also get know how to fix Internet Explorer 6 issues and optimize your fresh-built template so it's SEO ready.

This book is great if you like to follow steps.
There are many examples of code usage, inspirational ideas that might make your whole work process fun.

From time to time Tessa reminds about small things that you could forget while working hard on your template, but are worth remembering - favicons for example.

Summarizing, if you're looking for complete Joomla template building reference Packt's Joomla! 1.5 Template Design is for you.
If you want to know the process, syntax, pros and cons related to Joomla template creation you should take a closer look at this 2nd edition.