Joomla Training Course

Course Overview

The Joomla training course is a practical hands-on course with participants developing a fully-fledged website. Participants leave the course with the skills and knowledge to build or maintain their Joomla websites.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at:

Those who want to develop websites quickly
Those who have Joomla websites and needs to maintain it and wants to go in more depth about Joomla
Those who have developed websites using Frontpage or Dreamweaver
Those who want to move their static website to Joomla
Those who want to know what Joomla is all about

Course Prerequisites

The only prerequisite is that you must be computer literate. We assume that you start the course with no web design or Joomla experience.

You must bring a laptop/Mac/iMac to the course. Some participants even bring their desktop computer. We are able to hire a laptop to you.

Course Duration and Times

Duration: 2 days

Times: 9:00 – 15:00

Brief Course Outline

The following is a brief course outline:

Module 1: An Overview of Open Source Software
Module 2: Website Design Planning Steps
Module 3: An Overview of Joomla
Module 4: Setting Up a Localhost
Module 5: Creating a Joomla Website
Module 6: The Joomla Interface
Module 7: Joomla Settings
Module 8: Installing Editor Extension
Module 9: Creating Categories
Module 10: Creating Articles
Module 11: Article Management
Module 12: Featuring Articles
Module 13: Adding Menu Items

Module 14: Splitting Up Long Articles
Module 15: Creating Hyperlinks
Module 16: Using the Joomla Contact Component
Module 17: Module Positions
Module 18: Creating Additional Menus
Module 19: Creating a Dropdown Menu
Module 20: Templates
Module 21: Adding a Header Rotator/Slider
Module 22: Adding Social Media Buttons
Module 23: Adding a Google Map
Module 24: Backing Up Your Website
Appendix A: Making a Website Live
Appendix B: Useful Joomla Websites

Click here to download a detailed Joomla training course outline

Course Venues & Dates

Alberton	TBA
Cape Town	16 & 17 May 2019
Centurion	11 & 12 July 2019
Durban North	TBA