Website Design Training Using Joomla
About the Course
 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 nearly 5500 extensions to select from
- Support is easy to come by using the Joomla forums
Course Prerequisites
There are no course prerequisites
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
- Those who have developed websites using Frontpage or Dreamweaver
What Will Be Covered?
Section 1: Joomla overview
Section 2: Installing and configuring Joomla
Section 3: The Joomla interface
Section 4: Creating content
Section 5: Linking content
Section 6: Adding menu items
Section 7: Adding modules
Section 8: Installing/using components
Section 9: Understanding access control levels
Section 10: Working with plugins
Section 11: Using Media Manager
Section 12: Joomla templates
Section 13: Adding a photo gallery
Section 14: Creating forms
Section 15: Creating newsletters
Section 16: Changing global configuration settings
Click here for a detailed course outline
What Do You Get?
- Good and solid training
- A CD with Joomla and various free software
- A detailed step-by-step manual
- 1 month support after the course on the topics which were covered
Course Logistics
Where: Bandwidthbarn - 5th Floor, Buitengracht Centre, 125 Buitengracht St, Cape Town
When: 27 & 28 September 2010 (9:00 - 15:00)
Course Fee: R 2 000.00 (vat inc) per participant
Discount: There is a 15% discount if registration and payment takes place before or on 10 September 2010. There is an additional 10% discount if two or more participants from the same organisation registers.
Where: CITS - 118 Oak Avenue, Highveld Technopark, Centurion
When: 14 & 15 October 2010 (9:00 - 15:00)
Course Fee: R 2 000.00 (vat inc) per participant
Discount: There is a 15% discount if registration and payment takes place before or on 17 September 2010. There is an additional 10% discount if two or more participants from the same organisation registers.
Where: ZTS - 108 Botanic Gardens Road, Durban
When: 25 & 26 October 2010 (9:00 - 15:00)
Course Fee: R 2 000.00 (vat inc) per participant
Discount: There is a 15% discount if registration and payment takes place before or on 24 September 2010. There is an additional 10% discount if two or more participants from the same organisation registers.
The course date will be announced in due course.
The course date will be announced in due course.
The course date will be announced in due course.
To Register
Complete the registration form which you can download here with the bank details and fax the completed registration form with proof of payment to: 0865 657 296 or e-mail to:
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Register early to avoid disappointment.
Software You Will Get
At the end of the course, you will receive the following free software:
WAMP (to set up a local web server) * Joomla! 1.5.20 * FileZilla (a program to upload your website to your ISP) * FreeMind (a mindmapping program for planning your website) * Joomla templates * Joomla extensions * Website copier * OpenOffice * PDFCreator * Thunderbird (e-mail client) * Firefox (web browser) * Open Workbench (project management software) * TurboCASH (accounting software) * Blender (animation software) * GIMP (image manipulation software) * OrangeHRM (computerised human resource management software)
All the software are for the Windows environment.
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