This course is designed to provide the essential skills needed to be proficient at conceptualizing, installing, configuring, managing and maintaining a professional website using the Joomla CMS. This 2-day course focuses on teaching students the fundamental concepts of a Joomla CMS and how they can leverage this powerful open source Web CMS to build a solid online platform which can then be extended to include rich functionality like eCommerce, discussion forums, photo gallery, product catalog and more.
The curriculum is designed to be totally hands on, and students will progress step by step through the entire process of building a live website using the Joomla CMS including Joomla installation, configuration, template installation, extension installation, search engine optimization (SEO) and adding eCommerce functionality.
The curriculum is designed to be totally hands on, and students will progress step by step through the entire process of building a live website using the Joomla CMS including Joomla installation, configuration, template installation, extension installation, search engine optimization (SEO) and adding eCommerce functionality.
Who Should Attend
- Private individuals who wish to build personal websites to showcase their professional profile and offerings (e.g. real estate agents or insurance agents)
- Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) owners who would like to build, manage and control their own corporate websites.
- Retailers who would like to expand their presence online to offer eCommerce.
- Employees of companies, schools, NGO's or government agencies responsible for managing existing Joomla websites.
- Web designers exploring to use Joomla as a professional website building platform for client projects.
Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are required for this course. However, a general familiarity with browser usage and web-based services like Facebook and Gmail would be beneficial.
* Note that students need to bring their own laptops with wireless capability for the duration of the course.
Course Outline
- Internet Fundamentals
- Install a Joomla website from the ground up
- Administer a Joomla website
- Install and manage Joomla templates
- Create and modify articles and categories
- Create and modify menus and menu items
- Enhance and refine content in Joomla
- Install and manage Joomla extensions
- Explore and use pre-installed Joomla extensions
- Optimize Joomla for search engines
- Add eCommerce to Joomla
- Find resources relating to Joomla
