For most people, Joomla! administration is as easy as creating a new Word document.

However, many want more from their websites that simply adding the occasional news article.  Our training sessions are tailored to your requirements - be it an introduction to the  concepts of admnistration, to more advanced administration, layout and structural techniques.

We cover the following topics:

Joomla! Site Structure

• Frontend
• Layout
• Menus
• Modules
• Content areas
• Templates
• Back-end (Administrator) access

Administrator

• Control Panel, brief explanation of elements
• Site users
• Shortcut/tabs
• Workflow
• User groups and rights
• Administrator types and their access

Content Management

• Sections, categories and content
• Hierarchy
• Section & Category Managers
• Adding new articles
• Publishing
• Static content
• Frontpage management

Front End Content Management

• Logging in
• Editing content
• Submitting & Publishing content

Media Management

• Media Manager
• Browsing media
• Folder structures and creating new folders
• Uploading media

Trash Management

• Trash Manager
• Recovering items from the trash

Menus

• Menu Manager
• How menus work in Joomla
• Creating a new menu
• Creating menu items
• Types of menu link
• Menu item ordering
• Parent & child menus
• Content parameters

Components

• Components & the Component Manager
• Installing new components

Modules

• Modules & the Module Manager
• Module locations/positioning
• Module ordering
• Installing new modules

User Management

• The User Manager
• User groups & rights

Contact Management

• Contact Manager
• How to Add/Remove/Edit contacts

Templates

• Site Templates and their role
  

For more information on our training services, please contact us .