Course One is 5 hours and covers day to day administration and management of your Joomla website and the Content Manager, User Manager and Menu Manager.

This course will teach you everything you need to know about creating and maintaining the content, menus and users.

• Media manager
  • Creating image directories
  • Uploading and deleting images
• Trash manager - how to permanently delete items
• User manager
  • User administration including creating users, editing users, setting access levels, blocking users, deleting users
• Menus
  • Creating menu items and adjusting their position
  • Configuring menu items
  • Setting user access levels for menu items
  • Creating new menus
  • Setting the websites home page
• Site Content
  
  • Planning your content structure
  • Creating, editing and deleting article categories
  • Creating, editing and deleting articles
  • Copying articles
  • Publishing and unpublishing content, timed publishing/unpublishing
  • User access levels for articles
  • Article Manager Options
  • Meta tag information
  • Adding links to menus
  • How to create and edit content from the front-end
  • Featured article manager
  • Archive articles
  • Using various extended editors

The Joomla Administration Course covers how to administrate and manage your Joomla website. Course Two is 10 hours and covers all the topics of Course One but also covers all aspects of managing your Joomla website including site security, selecting, installing and configuring extensions and templates.

This is an extensive course and covers all areas of administrating a Joomla website from both the front-end and back-end and covers everything regarding the administration of a Joomla website.

• Article Manager (as per Course One)
• Menu Manager (as per Course One)
• User Manager (as per Course One)
• System Manager
  
  • Control Panel
  • Global Configuration - including SEO settings
  • Global Check-in
  • Cache
  • System Information
• Site statistics
• Components
  • Configuring and using each of the pre-installed components, modules and plugins
• Extension manager
  
  • Module Manager - including basic and advanced options and menu assignment
  • Plug-in Manager
  • Template Manager - including installing and configuring templates and how to edit edit templates
  • Language Manager
• Site security
• Backing up your website
• Keeping Joomla and extensions up to date
• Selecting, installing and configuring extensions

This course shows you how to use the advanced features of JCE editor to create complex article layout.

As part of your course we will look at the features of different add-on editors and select the most suitable one for your needs. Using JCE Editor you will be shown and also have the opportunity to use the advanced features of these editors to style and layout your content, create styles using CSS and much more.

This course covers from creating simple contact forms to advanced features like conditional and calculating fields.

As part of your course we will look at all the form fields available, advanced features like conditional fields, calculations, payments etc. You will also learn how to style your forms.

This course will teach you how to install, configure and manage your J2Store shop and much more.

As part of your course we will 

• Install and configure J2Store
• How to create product categories
• How to create products
• Managing customers
• Customer orders
• Configure payment options
• Set-up shipping
• Configure J2Store

Duration 3 hours
Cost £195.00 per person

Location: Sittingbourne Office (Kent) or Bromley Training Centre (Kent)

Training at your premises - if you would prefer training to take place at your premises travelling time and expenses are charged in addition to the cost of the course at £1.00 per mile from ME10 1NR. For courses over 2 or more consecutive days where the distance travelled is over 200 miles round trip the cost of over night stay may also be charged.

Deposit of £100.00 per person is payable at the time of booking. Balance is due 28 days before your course commencement date.

No refund will be given if you cancel your course less than 14 days before your course date.

This course is for web designers, businesses and web site owners who would like to learn how to design, plan, build and maintain Joomla websites. We cover from initial site planning through to development and on going running of your website.

The duration of the course is 5 days (25 hours) and normally takes place over 2 - 4 weeks. Although this course can be taken in one week the aim is to work with you while you plan, design and build your Joomla website. It is recommended you take this course over 2-4 consecutive weeks.

This course covers

• Planning your website (Day 1 and 2)
  
  • What is the nature of your business?
  • What is the major purpose of your website?
  • What is the primary message you want to convey?
  • What are the specific short-term and long-term goals for your website?
  • Who is your target audience and is this different to your offline customer?
  • Who are your primary competitors and what are they doing online?
  • How does your company differ from its competitors?
  • What are the key reasons why customers choose your company?
  • How is your company percieved?
  • Do you already have a corporate style? If so how can you incorporate this into your website?
  • Do you need a custom template or will a commercial/off the shelf template meet your requirements?
  • Planning the layout of your website
  • Planning your site structure
  • Planning your site content and images
  • Do you require any 3rd party extensions such as an onlne shop, forum, customer comments, social media etc.
  • Selecting suitable 3rd party extensions
  • Selecting a suitable hosting company
• Developing your website (Day 3 and 4)
  
  • Installing and configuring Joomla
  • Securing your Joomla website
  • SEO
  • Installing and configuring any required 3rd party extensions
  • Installing and configuring your Joomla template
  • Basics of customising a Joomla template
  • Basics of how to convert a static HTML template into a custom Joomla template
  • Setting up your content structure
  • Setting up your menu structure
  • Adding your content and data
• Managing your website (Day 5)
  
  • System Manager
  • User Manager
  • Menu Manager
  • Content Manager
  • Components
  • Extension Manager
  • Backing up your website
  • Updating extensions and Joomla
  • Moving your Joomla website

Duration - this is a 5 day/25 hour course which can be taken over 2 - 4 weeks.

Cost £1975.00 per person (one to one only)

Learn how to install and configuration of the Joomla content management system.

• Creating a mySQL database from within cPanel using phpMyAdmin
• Uploading the Joomla files using FTP and setting the correct file permissions
• Installation of Joomla content management system on a Unix server
• Configuring Joomla ready for the input of content
• Creating a category and article pages
• Configuring web links, contact us, banner adverts and mass email
• Installing and configuring a Joomla template
• Transferring your Joomla website from one server to another manually
• Using Akeeba Backup to transfer your Joomla website from one server to another
• Manual import and export of databases

This course is for experienced web designers only who would to start develop custom Joomla websites and templates for their clients.

You must be experienced in hand coding static XHTML and CSS web pages.

You should be experienced in basic Joomla administration.

This course covers

• Planning and designing a Joomla website
• Installing and configuring Joomla including selecting a suitable hosting company and site security
• Selecting suitable extensions
• Backing up and moving Joomla websites
• Upgrading and migrating from older versions of Joomla
• Creating Joomla templates including how to convert an existing HTML design into a Joomla template
• Responsive templates and using Twitter Bootstrap
• Pros and cons of responsive templates
• Using menu assignment and template overrides to achieve layout and styling changes using only one template.

Depending on the number of delegates training takes place at either our offices in Sittingbourne Kent or our training facilities in Sittingbourne Kent. Close to M2 and M20 as well as Sittingbourne BR Station. Free parking available.

If your location is within 25 miles of ME10 1NR then there is no charge to attend your premises.

Where you premises are more than 25 miles from ME10 1NR traveling time and expenses are charged at £1.00 per mile.

Traveling distance is calculated from ME10 1NR to your post code location and back. If your course is a 2 day course then you will be charged for both days/journeys.

For courses over 2 or more consecutive days where the distance travelled is over 200 miles round trip the cost of over night stay may also be charged.