Duration
2 days
Course Description
The course is for those people wishing to grasp the basic understanding of Joomla to be able to create and maintain sites for themselves and other clients, before moving on to creating Joomla websites in a working environment. This is a two-day training course.
Introduction
- Understanding Joomla
- Installation
- Architecture
- Database
- Joomla Framework
- Components
- Modules
- Plugin
- Templates
- Web Server
Chapter 2 – Joomla Key Building Blocks
- Categories
- Articles
- Menus
- Modules
- Templates
Introduction
- Working with Categories
- Category Structure
- Displaying Categories on your Website
Chapter 3 – Articles
- Adding a new article
- Adding a menu item which points to an article
- Managing the front page
- Scheduling an article to be available only between certain dates
- Restricting access to an article
- Restricting access to “read more”
- Removing email, print or pdf icons
- Removing author name
- Moving an article to the archive
- Deleting an article
Chapter 4 – Menus
- Create menus
- Adding menu items
- Modify menu items
- Creating submenus
- Split menus
Chapter 5 – Modules
- Create modules
- Breadcrumb module
- Feed display module
- Footer module
- Search module
- Random image module
- Who’s online module
- Syndicate module
- Donation module
Chapter 6 – Templates
- Introductions
- Purpose of templates
- Template building blocks
- Layout
- Color scheme
- Images and effects
- Fonts
- Templates supplied
- Site templates
- Administrator templates
- Switching templates
- Access to the template manager
- Managing default template
- Assigning more than one template style for the front-end
- Installing templates
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.