Website Design Training Using Joomla 2.5

The Joomla course is a practical hands-on course with participants developing a fully fledged website. The course also demystifies the Joomla terminology and will show you how the different pieces of Joomla fits together.

At the end of the course, participants will receive all the tools they need to develop their websites. Participants will leave the course with the skills and knowledge to build or maintain their Joomla websites.

The Benefits of a Joomla Website

- Joomla is the most popular Content Management System at the moment for developing websites - it has been downloaded more than 10 million times

- Joomla makes it very easy for non-technical people to develop professional websites

- You can maintain your own content - no need to pay web developers a fortune to make changes

- You do not need to know any programming or special software to use Joomla

- You can add features within minutes to your Joomla site - there are over 9000 extensions to select from

- Support is easy to come by using the Joomla forums

Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for the course. We assume that participants starts this course with no Joomla! experience.

Who Should Attend This Course?

This course is aimed at:

- Those who want to develop websites quickly

- Those who have Joomla websites and needs to maintain it and wants to go in more depth about Joomla

- Those who have developed websites using Frontpage or Dreamweaver

What Will Be Covered?

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Section 1: An Overview of Open Source Software (OSS) Open Source vs Closed Source * Examples of OSS

Section 2: Joomla Overview What is Joomla? * Features of Joomla * Understanding WAMP

Section 3: Installing & Configuring Joomla Installing WampServer * Creating a Website Folder * Configuring the Joomla Web Installer

Section 4: The Joomla Interface Understanding The Frontend and Backend of Joomla * Login as a Super User * The Joomla Control Panel

Section 5: Creating Content Creating Categories * Creating Categorised or Uncategorised Articles * Inserting Images/Graphics Into Articles * Inserting the Read More Option Into Articles * Filtering & Sorting Articles * Viewing Featured Articles on the Home Page * Previewing Your Website * Setting the Global Parameters for Articles * Linking Articles Internally * Creating External Weblinks * Creating File Downloads

Section 6: Adding Menu Items Adding a Single Article Menu Item * Adding a List All Categories Menu Item * Adding a Category List Menu Item * Changing the Menu Order

Section 7: Joomla Extension Types What is a Component? * What is a Module? * What is a Plugin? * What is a Template? * What is Language?

Section 8: Adding Modules Enabling Module Position Viewing * Viewing the Module Positions * Changing the Module Position of an Item * Creating Flyout/Dropdown Menus * Adding the Search Module * Adding the Breadcrumbs Module

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Section 9: Joomla Content Editor (JCE) Installing JCE * Changing the Editor to JCE * Viewing the New Editor

Section 10: Access Control Levels (ACL) Understanding the ACL Hierarchy * Creating a Group * Adding a New Users * Setting Access Levels

Section 11: Joomla Templates Introducing the Tabbed Template Manager * Changing the Default Template for a Website * Installing a Template * Viewing the HTML Code for a Template * Viewing the CSS Code for a Template * Changing the Logo

Section 12: Basic Search Engine Optimisation Adding Suffixes to URLs * Using Cache * Using Gzip * Adding a Site Map * Updating the Meta Tags Settings for Articles * Creating Alternative Read More Text * Using the Joomla Search Component * Checking if Templates are W3C Compliant

Section 13: Adding a Photo Gallery Install the Photo Gallery Component * Creating Folders for the Photos * Adding a Gallery Menu Item

Section 14: Multimedia Inserting a Header Rotator/Slider * Playing Videos on Your Website

Section 15: Backing Up Your Website About Akeeba Backup * Installing Akeeba Backup * Configuring Akeeba Backup * Creating a Backup Copy of Your Website * Downloading Your Backup Archives

Questions and Answers

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FLOSSNet will not be held responsible if you register for the wrong course. Please check the version of your Joomla website.

Important Notes

- This course does not cover the design or modification of Templates. This will be covered on a separate 2-day course which FLOSSNet will advertise

- This course does not cover the uploading of a website from the localhost to a live server. There is a step-by-step section in the Appendix of the manual on how to do it.

- This course does not cover E-commerce. This will be covered on a 2-day course which FLOSSNet will advertise.

What Will You Get?

- Good and solid training

- A CD with Joomla and various free software

- A detailed step-by-step manual

- 1 month free support after the course within the scope of the course

Course Logistics

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Where University of the Western Cape (UWC), Bellville

When Course 1: 6 & 7 February 2012 (9:00 - 15:00) Course 2: 27 & 28 March 2012 (9:00 - 15:00)

Course Fee R 2 500.00 per participant

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Discount There is a 10% discount if two or more participants from the same organisation registers.

Early Bird Payments There is a 15% discount if registration and payment take place before or on the following dates for the different courses:

Course 1: 27 January 2012 Course 2: 16 March 2012

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Where Foster-Melliar, Centurion

When Course 1: 5 & 6 March 2012 (9:00 - 15:00) Course 2: 10 & 11 April 2012 (9:00 - 15:00)

Course Fee R 2 500.00 per participant

Discount There is a 10% discount if two or more participants from the same organisation registers.

Early Bird Payments There is a 15% discount if registration and payment take place before or on the following dates for the different courses:

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Course 1: 24 February 2012 Course 2: 30 March 2012

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Where St Philomena's IT Resource Centre, Sydenham

When Course 1: 20 & 21 February 2012 (9:00 - 15:00) Course 2: 8 & 9 May 2012 (9:00 - 15:00)

Course Fee R 2 500.00 per participant

Discount There is a 10% discount if two or more participants from the same organisation registers.

Early Bird Payments There is a 15% discount if registration and payment take place before or on the following dates for the different courses:

Course 1: 10 February 2012 Course 2: 26 April 2012

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Where

Johannesburg

When Course 1: 12 & 13 March 2012 (9:00 - 15:00) Course 2: 16 & 17 April 2012 (9:00 - 15:00)

Course Fee R 2 500.00 per participant

Discount There is a 10% discount if two or more participants from the same organisation registers.

Early Bird Payments There is a 15% discount if registration and payment take place before or on the following dates for the different courses:

Course 1: 2 March 2012 Course 2: 5 April 2012

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To Register

Complete the registration form which you will find here with the bank details. Fax the completed registration form with proof of payment to: 0865-657-296 or e-mail to:

registration@flossnet.co.za before the starting date of the course.

FLOSSNet will not be held responsible if you register for the wrong course. Please check

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the version of your Joomla website.

Course Contact Details

Contact FLOSSNet for further information:

Tel: 011-869-6404 Fax: 0865-657-296 E-mail: training@flossnet.org.za

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