CECS: Web Design Training Using Joomla

The Community Education Computer Society, a NGO established for the technological empowerment of the historically disadvantaged, is conducting a two-day Web Design Training Using Joomla from 17-18 March 2010 in Johannesburg.

Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) which makes it easy to create dynamic and complex websites. You do not need any programming knowledge to use Joomla. Joomla makes it ideal for NGOs and small businesses to build their own websites.
Joomla can be downloaded for free from the Joomla website.

Here are some of the ways people use Joomla:

• Corporate websites and portals
• Small business websites
• Non-profit and organisational websites
• School and church websites
• Community-based portals
• Personal or family websites

What Will Be Covered:

Install and Configure Joomla

• Install WAMP
• Create folder and copy Joomla files

Configure the Joomla web installer

• Create Content
• Create sections and categories
• Create articles
• Create uncategorised articles
• Set the global parameters for articles
• Set the parameters for individual articles
• Interlink articles with one another
• Upload documents and link to documents
• Insert images into articles
• Insert the read more option into articles
• Display articles on the Home Page
• Create a ‘table of contents’ for long articles

Joomla Built-in Components
Create a contacts list

• Create a web links page
• Create a newsfeeds to and from your website
• Create a poll
• Install and uninstall components

Add Menu Items

• Add a category blog layout menu item
• Add a category list layout menu item
• Add a section blog layout menu item
• Add a section list layout menu item
• Add a contacts menu item
• Add a newsfeeds menu item
• Add a web links menu item
• Change menu order
• Changing a menu type 

Modules

• Add the login module for people to register on your site
• Add the who's online module to track who is on your site
• Add the search module if people want to find information on your site
• Add the breadcrumbs module to enable people to track where they are on your site
• Add the newsfeeds module so that people can be updated if you add new information
• Add the polls module to the site
• Installing and uninstalling other modules
• Plugins
• Install and uninstall plugins
• Enable plugins
• Enable the legacy plugins

Templates

• Install and uninstall templates
• Change the default template
• View the html and CSS files for templates
• Add you own logo to a site

Software You Will Get

• WAMP
• Joomla 1.5.14
• FileZilla
• Joomla Templates
• Joomla extensions (components, modules and plugins)
• FreeMind (mind-mapping software)

Joomla Benefits

• You can easily manage any aspect of your website from anywhere in the world
• Once Joomla is installed, configured and running, it is simple and easy for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your organisation go
• Anybody with basic word-processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla website
• Joomla can be customised to meet your specific need through the use of extensions. There is about 4 500 extensions
• There is plenty of support available for newcomers to Joomla on their support forums.

Time: 9h00 – 16h00
Course Fee: R1 200 (VAT Inclusive)
For more information: click here.