Welcome to the VTC course for Joomla!. I'm your instructor, Melanie Hedgespeth. In this course you will learn about the content management system named Joomla!. Joomla! is an open-source, free program that you can use to get total control of your website design, navigation, updates, text and much more. With Joomla! you can keep your site up to date very easily and add all kinds of extra elements. Things like polls, sign-ups and newsflashes. In this course, we're going to cover Joomla! basics, which includes installing Joomla!, how to get help with the program and also being aware of Joomla! terminology. It's definitely important to understand specific key terms within the program so you can easily manager your site and easily work with the software. Once we master those basics, we'll move into the actual content of our Joomla! site. We will work with all the elements including the menus, navigational items, articles, polls and much more. At this point you're going to have the skills to implement components into your site and then we'll work on editing those items and increasing the professionalism of your site. As we continue to learn, we will work with extensions, templates and managing users. If you have a site that grows, you're going to need to be able to add users who can help maintain and keep all that information up to date on your site. Finally, we're going to work with search engine optimization. It's great to have a wonderful website, but you need to be able to drive Internet traffic to your pages. We'll take a look at our options in that area. We have a lot to learn and Joomla! is a fun program to play with. So let's get started. Remember, throughout the course you can always e-mail me with questions or you can go to my website; it's MyTechRelief.com. If you go to the Contact area I have a little mebo chat there. You can see if I'm online and I can answer your questions quickly. So let's get started with Joomla! and start learning.
Course:
Joomla! 1.5
Author: Melanie Hedgespeth
SKU: 34012
ISBN: 1-935320-55-6
Release Date: 2009-06-30
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 118 tutorials
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8
Introducing Joomla!
Course Introduction (02:05) T
About Joomla! (04:09) T
Licensing (01:46) T
Joomla! Capabilities
What Joomla! Can Do For You (05:45) T
Example Sites (04:07) T
Getting Joomla!
Joomla! Download (02:56) T
XAMPP (02:48) T
Local Installation
Requirements (05:43)
Local Install pt. 1 (03:12)
Local Install pt. 2 (02:50)
Local Install pt. 3 (05:00)
Remote Installation
Remote Install pt. 1 (02:58)
Remote Install pt. 2 (01:14)
Taking Local Install to Remote Site (03:31)
Joomla! Basics
Workspace Front End (05:36)
Workspace Back End (05:48)
Lingo pt. 1 (05:44)
Lingo pt. 2 (03:04)
Help with Joomla! (05:22)
Content
Content Plan (04:44)
Sections pt. 1 (03:12)
Sections pt. 2 (05:57)
Categories pt. 1 (03:21)
Categories pt. 2 (02:25)
Articles pt. 1 (05:44)
Articles pt. 2 (05:42)
Removing Articles (02:34)
Front Page (02:49)
Changing the Logo (03:11)
Logo Sizing (01:46)
Users
Types (03:22)
Management pt. 1 (05:30)
Management pt. 2 (02:55)
Contacts (04:39)
Contacts Page (04:54)
Menus
Working with Menus pt. 1 (05:11)
Working with Menus pt. 2 (05:17)
Working with Menus pt. 3 (03:25)
Working with Menus pt. 4 (05:07)
Submenus (05:03)
Menu Item Order & Removal (02:20)
Working with Pages
Order (03:12)
Filtering/Sorting (05:39)
Images pt. 1 (04:32)
Images pt. 2 (04:24)
Images pt. 3 (05:31)
Multimedia (03:24)
Tables (05:29)
Table of Contents (03:12)
Article Submissions (04:55)
Tracking Page Hits (02:56)
Article Title Linking (01:35)
Hiding Authors (01:29)
Linking Article to Article (01:49)
Article Ratings (02:20)
Components
Polls (04:17)
Make a Poll (06:02)
Weblinks (06:03)
Search (05:12)
News Feeds pt. 1 (02:25)
News Feeds pt. 2 (03:19)
Banners pt. 1 (06:06)
Banners pt. 2 (03:22)
Extensions
Modules (04:27)
Most Read & Latest News (02:28)
Banner Ads (06:06)
Archives (03:08)
Breadcrumbs (02:35)
Custom HTML & Feed Display (02:58)
Footer (03:05)
Random Image (03:19)
Search (02:04)
Statistics & Sections (04:47)
Syndicate & Who is Online (05:48)
Related Articles (05:45)
Newsflash (06:09)
Wrapper (03:03)
Plugins (05:26)
Templates (05:06)
Installing Templates pt. 1 (04:06)
Installing Templates pt. 2 (02:24)
Editing Templates (04:10)
Languages (03:58)
Installing Languages (02:43)
Installing Extensions (02:14)
Installing Extensions Examples pt. 1 (02:56)
Installing Extensions Examples pt. 2 (03:00)
Media Manager
Using the Media Manager (03:36)
Images for Articles (02:34)
Media Extensions (05:15)
Tools
Mail (04:22)
Global Check-in (06:23)
Cache (02:08)
Global Configuration Site (05:38)
Global Configuration System (05:04)
Global Configuration Server (03:11)
SEO
SEO Explained (04:16)
SEO & Site Tips pt. 1 (04:54)
SEO & Site Tips pt. 2 (05:57)
Upload Local to Remote
Activating Local Joomla! Site to Remote Host (05:52)
Tips
Custom Error Pages pt. 1 (01:27)
Custom Error Pages pt. 2 (01:40)
Custom Error Pages pt. 3 (01:21)
Custom Error Pages pt. 4 (00:51)
Facebook Link (03:11)
Twitter Link (02:51)
Convert an Existing Site (02:19)
Uninstall XAMPP/Joomla! (01:11)
Backup & Administration pt. 1 (02:03)
Backup & Administration pt. 2 (02:18)
Security (01:58)
Future Publishing (01:04)
Website Planning (03:23)
Tiny MCE pt. 1 (02:18)
Tiny MCT pt. 2 (03:12)
Tiny MCT pt. 3 (01:47)
Wrap Up
Joomla! Summary (03:48)
Author
About the Author (02:30)
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