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Joomla

Course outline

5 days

Duration

5 days

Introduction

  • Welcome
  • The flexible platform for website creators
  • Using the exercise files
  • Installing Joomla
  • Installing Joomla 4
  • A quick tour of the Joomla interface
  • Modifying Global Configuration
  • Understanding Categories and Articles
  • Creating and editing categories for your site
  • Creating and editing individual articles
  • Exploring the featured article setting
  • Adding images and image captions
  • Configuring and formatting articles with TinyMCE
  • Inserting a read more break in an article
  • Creating custom field groups
  • Creating and configuring custom fields
  • Understanding Menus
  • Understanding and configuring menus
  • Linking an article to the menu
  • Configuring category blogs
  • Reordering menu items
  • Creating new menus
  • Creating menu aliases and external URLs
  • Adding links in articles
  • Hiding menu items within the menu
  • Setting Display Options
  • Setting configuration options for articles
  • Setting menu options
  • Comparing page headings, article titles, and page titles
  • Using Modules
  • Understanding module positions
  • Creating a custom module
  • Including a module in an article using loadposition
  • Using Components
  • Using the contact component
  • Using CAPTCHA with contact forms
  • Extending Joomla
  • Evaluating extensions in the Joomla Extensions Directory
  • Installing JCE (Joomla Content Editor)
  • Linking to a PDF with JCE
  • Updating extensions and Joomla
  • Working with Templates
  • Changing the look of the site using templates
  • Creating new template styles and assigning template styles
  • Changing module layout settings for menus
  • Adding a banner to the home page
  • Changing module layout settings for the home page
  • Adjusting template masters with template overrides
  • Changing the admin template
  • Modifying Dashboards in the admin template
  • Language overrides - Changing Joomla 's default text outputs

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.