Need to learn how to use Joomla's content management system? If so, then this course is perfect for you. Our Joomla courses takes place in Cape Town South Africa over five days, and are practical with each person building a web site during the teaching phase.

Day 1

 • Understanding CMS Systems
 • Introduction to Joomla
 • Installing and Setting up Joomla

      Joomla! features:
       • Completely database driven site engines
       • News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
       • Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
       • Fully customisable layouts including left, centre and right menu boxes
       • Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
       • Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
       • Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX

      Extensive Administration:
       • Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc.
       • Random Newsflash generator
       • Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links
       • Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want
       • Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use
       • Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
       • News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world
       • Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
       • Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article
       • In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad
       • User editable look and feel
       • Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
       • Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site
       • Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds
       • Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
       • Banner manager. Make money out of your site

Day 2

 • Understanding and working with the joomla administrator’s panel

Day 3

 • Understanding the joomla template system

 • Manipulating joomla templates using Dreamweaver and Fireworks/Photoshop

Day 4

 • Integrating Joomla with other MySQL sites
 • Creating personal joomla modules

Day 5
 • Working with third party solutions i.e. Civi CRM, PHPAds – banner deployment, PHP Bulletin Board, Google Ads, Google Maps, Map Quest etc