Joomla! Basics for Business

What is Joomla?
Joomla is an award winning content management system (CMS) that allows you to easily maintain your own website. Be your company's 'go to' person.

Why should I know Joomla?
Joomla is fast becoming the most popular CMS by allowing your organization to save thousands on web developer update fees.

How easy is Joomla?
If you've ever used Word, you can use Joomla. Throw out your Dreamweaver and Frontpage software. No special software is required. In fact, everything is web based, so there is no uploading when you save a change.

What's the best way to learn Joomla?
Give us 6 hours and we'll train you, provide lunch, and leave you with a demo site and all the tutorials and tricks you'll need to be the pro in your organization.

Got more questions about this class?
Call us weekdays 9-5 at 215-723-7050
and we'll be happy to answer any questions.

Joomla! Basics is for business and non-profit administrative staff who need a no-nonsense business oriented approach to Joomla! CMS training. Sponsored by Sitecats Web Development, Southeastern PA's authority on content managed websites for over 110 area businesses.

Upon completion of this 6 hour course, attendees will have a hands-on working knowledge of publishing new content, creating sections and categories and related menus. Sitecats stresses business usage and leaves out the tedious technical details, resulting in an informative and fun way to retain this valuable and important information.

You must bring a WIFI-enabled laptop. Lunch provided!

We prefer that you have the latest Firefox browser ready to go.

We'll provide a ready-made Joomla site for you to use during class, that you may keep for six months. If you would like to host longer we have affordable hosting. In addition we can apply your dot com domain to this page (optional).

Details of this course include:

Introduction to Content Management Systems

• What's Joomla!?

SCAM (Sections, Categories, Articles, Menus)

• Publish/Unpublish
• Ordering of Items, Including Front Page Manager

Content Sections/Categories

• Creation
• Organization
• Blog Layouts
• List Layouts
• Access Levels, Multiple Parameters

Content Creation (Using JCE)

• Article Creation
• Adding Content to Front Page
• Read More
• Article Index Using Page Breaks
  
• Formatting
• Links, Including How to Open in New Window
• Images
• Deleting (Article Trash)

Menus

• Menu Creation
• Article Types (Layout, Blog, List, Etc.)
• External Links
• Parent/Child menus
• Parameters (Blog Columns, Details, Page Title)
• Default Menu Items (First Page to Show)
• Deleting

Modules

• Custom HTML Module (Text, Images, Widgets)
• Image Slideshow
• Login
• Syndicate

Components

• Polls and the Accompanying Modules
  
• Contacts
• Search - Broad and Specific
  

Users

• Access levels (Permissions)
• Front-End Registration

Global Tools

• Global Configuration (Meta Keywords, Default Editor, Time Zone, Media Settings, Mail Settings, SEF, FTP)
• Private Messages
• Mass Mail
  
• Media Manager
• Help!

Templates (Free & Subscription)

• Setting as Default

Extensions and the Extensions Directory

• JCE, Image Rotator as an Example

Search Engine Optimization

• SEF/SEO
• Metatags (Global Config & Articles)
• Google Local Business Center (Submit Your Business Listing)
• Google Analytics