Boston Joomla Intermediate Training

Joomla Training in Boston

Joomla is one of the best and most popular ways to build a website. It is user-friendly, powerful and is continuously improved by thousands of people around the world.

Joomla powers millions of sites and is being widely adopted by governments, universities and Fortune 500 companies.

Our Joomla Intermediate Class is aimed at increasing the skills of people who will be building and maintaining Joomla sites. You will learn

Why Attend the Joomla Beginner Class?

  • 1 The class is taught by an experienced Joomla instructor who will teach you the essentials you need to know in order to get you started with your Joomla website.
  • 2 Our teaching style is entirely hands-on. You'll have a Joomla site in front of you and will be actively working and learning throughout the class.
  • 3 Because learning is a continual process, all students will not only go home with a book that reinforces the concepts covered in class, they also get six months of access to our online training videos and online support forum.

What Will You Learn in the Joomla Intermediate Class

You'll build on your Joomla knowledge and get to grips with how to modify, improve and develop great Joomla websites. This class uses the latest version of Joomla, but questions on all versions are welcome.

Topic
  • Part 1: Workflow: An introduction to the Joomla workflow for building complete, advanced sites.
  • Part 2: Advanced content editing and management. We'll add extra features to Joomla's content editing, including improved multimedia, document, image and link-handling options. We'll also focus on security, including how to restrict user's editing options and track different versions of a document.
  • Part 3: Understanding components and using advanced Joomla components. We'll create a community site by adding user profiles and social networking. We'll also create a blog with commenting and sharing features.
  • Part 4: Understanding modules and using advanced Joomla modules. In the beginner class we explain module positions. In this class we go a step further and place the modules anywhere you want. We also see how to control them in more advanced ways, choosing who can see them and setting publish and unpublish dates.
  • Part 5: Understanding plugins and using advanced Joomla plugins. We'll explain each of the different kinds of Joomla plugins using several different examples. We'll see how to create slideshows and video displays, spice up content items with extra features and how to login to Joomla using accounts from other sites.
  • Part 6: Joomla Access Control Levels. We'll use the new permission levels in Joomla to accurately control what users can and cannot do on our sites.
  • Part 7: Joomla Site Maintenance. How to update, backup, secure and correctly configure your Joomla site.
  • Part 8: Practice: We build a full Joomla site so that students can practice everything that they have learned during the class.

Pre-Requisites

To get the most out of this class, you'll need a good basic knowledge of Joomla. Do you know the difference between a module and a component? Do you know how to add articles and install extensions?

What Do Class Attendees Get to Help Their Learning?

Live Training
Practical, hands-on training from an experienced Joomla teacher
Forum Support
Six months of forum support with same-day answers to your questions
Workbook
A copy of Joomla Explained, the best selling Joomla book
Videos
Six months of access to a video version of the class you take
Cheat Sheets
All the key information from the class in one useful guide
Completion certificate
A personalized completion certificate

 

Attendees can come to class empty-handed. We provide computers, drinks, snacks and lunch.

Class Trainer

Jen Kramer Jen Kramer is a senior faculty member at the Marlboro College Graduate Center, teaching courses and workshops in web site design and management, including Joomla. She has also previously taught at Champlain College, the Community College of Vermont, and the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. Jen is a Lynda.com author for the titles "Joomla! Creating and Editing Custom Templates", "Joomla! Advanced CSS" and more. Her first book, “Joomla! Start to Finish” was published by Wrox Press/Wiley.

Class Location

Class Date and Time

  • Date: February 7th, 2011
  • Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Boston Joomla Intermediate Class Tickets

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Please feel free to call 678-830-2168 and speak with an OSTraining representative. They'll be able to help you pay and register for a class.

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  • 1 Please send a check to: OSTraining.com, P.O. Box 907895, Gainesville, GA 30501.
  • 2 Please include the name of the student plus their email address.
  • 3 Your seat in the class will be confirmed only when the check arrives. Classes are filled on a first-come-first-served basis.
  • 4 If you need an invoice before ordering, please email support@ostraining.com.

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