Office Reliance hosts the Garden Route's very own Joomla based web design training course.

"Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone."

The course is broken down into three sections, and is presented over two full days of training and one day of practical work. Once the course has been completed the student will be able to create and maintain Joomla based websites, using the Joomla building blocks.

The course is aimed at web design beginners and does not require any knowledge of HTML or other programming languages.

During the  first two days we cover all the instruction and learning part as to how to create websites using the Joomla building blocks. On the third day you come back with your own photos and content and we spend the day building your very own website, which you take with you at the end of the day.

During the course we will be using the Bitnami Joomla installation. This will allow us to work on our training PCs and to easily copy the websites we create to other computers.

The course content is as follows:

Part 1 - Introduction to Joomla

• What is a Content Management System (CMS)
• What is Joomla & the LAMP building blocks
• The front-end and back-end
• Template overview
• Modules & components
• Module positions
• Sections & categories
• Editing and adding Joomla content
• Using the Image library

 

Part 2 - Installing, building & maintaining a Joomla site

• Installing Joomla
• MySQL and PhpMyAdmin overview
• Administrator's panel
• Changing templates
• Adding modules and components
• Working with sections & categories
• Managing menus
• Managing banners & ads
• Google SEO for Joomla

Part 3 - Joomla Advanced

• Securing your Joomla site
• Creating your own modules
• Modules inside content pages
• Content pages inside modules
• Custom forms
• Using external feeds
• Creating rss feeds
• Joomla database overview
• Must have Joomla add-ons
• Tips & tricks

We will provide a printed manual with step by step instructions as well as CD containing all the software used on the course. This will include the Joomla installer allowing you to create your own website on your own PC.

The course will run from 9 am to 4 pm each day, and will include catered tea breaks as well as a hot lunch.

Cost is R900 per delegate per day, VAT incl.