Joomla Training

New to Joomla? New to Joomla 1.5? Let an experienced Joomla developer show you the ropes so you can start updating your website.

We offer Skype or phone training for Joomla 1.5, Virtuemart and Community Builder.

Select any two training session and receive $50 off.

Training Topics

Joomla 1.5 – 2 hours - $250

Lesson Breakdown:

• Global Configuration – How to change site name, take site offline and more…
• User Manager – How to add new users. Setting access levels and more…
• Menu Manager – how to create new menus and links, different link types, set access level on certain links and more…
• Content Manager
  • Managing sections
  • Managing categories
  • Adding/Editing/Deleting/Unpublishing/Archiving Content
  • Add Meta to content
  • Set start and end publish dates
• Banners manager – how to create and publish banners
• Polls – how to create multiple polls and publish them to different pages
• Installation of:
  • Extensions
  • Modules
  • Plugins
  • Templates
• Templates – how to publish a template to specific pages and all pages
• Modules
  • Modules overview
  • Joomla core modules run down (latest news, newsflash, random image, wrapper, rss and more…)
  • How to publish modules to specific pages
  • How to create custom modules
  • How to configure newly installed modules
  • Modules and access level permissions
• Plugins
  • Plugin Overview
  • How to configure plugins
• Q&A

Virtuemart – 2 hours - $175

Lesson Breakdown:

• Configuration – explanation of various key features
• Store setup – Store address, logo, terms of service and store introduction
• Managing product categories – parent and child categories, upload category image and more…
• Managing products
  • Pricing
  • Category assignment
  • Short vs. Full Descriptions
  • Multiple product images
  • Related products
  • Product attributes
  • Multiple pricing based on quantity
• Payment method setup
• Shipping method setup
• Setting up taxes
• Order manager – view orders, update order status, send comments to customer
• User manager – view/edit customer information
• SSL configuration
• Modifying Virtuemart templates (browse, flypages, checkout pages)
• Q&A

Community Builder $150

Lesson Breakdown:

• Configuration
  • Custom user email
• Installing plugins
• Managing Tabs
  • Tab regions, tab styles
• Managing custom fields
• Q&A

* A follow up email will follow in cases where an answer cannot be provided during the training session