Apress - Beginning Joomla From Novice to Professional

It was a pleasure to work with the people at Apress on this book. The superior Apress staff often made the difficult seem easy. I’d like to thank Jason Gilmore for believing in the book from the start and shepherding it down the long, hard road to publication. Tracy Brown Collins, who lives in a distant land, thanks for all your help and the small
e-mails of encouragement. I’d also like to thank Damon Larson, Marilyn Smith, Katie Stence, and all the others who had to work tirelessly in production and editing to produce
this book.

I must thank the twin stars of my life—my wife, Elizabeth, and my daughter, Alexandra—for their untiring patience as I crafted this book. Elizabeth put up with all
the late nights and lost weekends with seldom a complaint. Meeting her was the best thing that ever happened to me and I am eternally grateful that serendipity introduced
me to my better half. I’d like to thank my siblings (David and Darlene) and friends (David Rahmel, GregMickey, John Taylor, Juan Leonffu, Ed Gildred, and Weld O’Connor) for their unconditional support. I’m very grateful to Sandra Villagran who kept the munchkin at bay and happy while I focused on the writing.

The Joomla! development team deserves all of our highest praise. They work tirelessly with small thanks and smaller remuneration to create the most fantastic open source application in the world. We all benefit from their generosity. Most of all, I’d like to thank you, the reader. By buying this book, you make it possible for all of us in the publishing industry to labor to produce good work. I hope the information in this book will play a part in helping you achieve your dreams.

Thanks.