Duration: 5 Days
Overview:
Need to learn how to use Joomla? This course is ideal for you. The course is not for beginners, as you should already understand the concepts of web design. This Joomla training course takes place in Greenpoint, Cape Town and runs over five days, and is a practical oriented training program.
Pre-requisites:
* Experience with HTML
* Experience in the following areas would be beneficial, CSS, Basic Programming, XML
Course Outline:
Day 1
• Understanding CMS Systems
• Introduction to Joomla
• Installing and Setting up Joomla
Joomla! features:
• Completely database driven site engines
• News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
• Fully customisable layouts including left, centre and right menu boxes
• Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
• Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX
Extensive Administration:
• Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc.
• Random Newsflash generator
• Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links
• Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want
• Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use
• Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
• News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world
• Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
• Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article
• In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad
• User editable look and feel
• Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
• Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site
• Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds
• Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
• Banner manager. Make money out of your site
Day 2
• Understanding and working with the joomla administrator’s panel
Day 3
• Understanding the joomla template system
• Manipulating joomla templates using Dreamweaver and Fireworks/Photoshop
Day 4
• Integrating Joomla with other MySQL sites
• Creating personal joomla modules
Day 5
• Working with third party solutions i.e. Civi CRM, PHPAds – banner deployment, PHP Bulletin Board, Google Ads, Google Maps, Map Quest etc
Student Feedback
Hendrik Mentz: Most grateful to Mr Joseph Kandi for a warm, informative and extremely useful course. You are great! (August 2009)
S.Mazomba: We have the best trainer who knows what his doing. Gives best clarity and material. Content of his course is very good! (August 2009)
Thantaswa Mtsabe: To me this training opened my eyes widely because I learned some of the things that I did not know before. I'm glad I came for this course. It's brilliant and makes life easier! (August 2009)
Carol: Overall very pleasant, the trainer is happy to assist and has a very pleasant personality and attitude. (March 2010)
