Tailormade4you is running a one day "Introduction to Joomla" training course on 24 March 2010.

Learn How To Create Your Own Website - Quickly!

Joomla! is a very popular tool for building websites - it has been downloaded over 10 Million times and the actual number of websites built with Joomla is probably about 2 or 3 times as much!

Joomla helps you to:

• Build websites quickly and easily

• Build complex websites quickly and easily using some of the many free extensions available. There are over 4000 extensions available for Joomla. These extensions will give you functionality to build shopping carts, membership sites, social networking sites, forums and much more

• Maintain websites quickly and easily. You do not need to be concered about broken links or updating links if you add or remove pages - all of these are maintained automatically for you by the Joomla system

But Joomla does have a a learning curve asociated with it! This is because it is such a powerful program. We are running this one day to teach you how to understand how Joomla works and how to build your first website using Joomla.

In this course you will learn:

• What Joomla CMS is and how it works

• How to add and update Article Pages in Joomla

• How to upload images and insert them into your pages

• What Components and Extensions are and how to install them

• How to install an image gallery on your website

• How to embed Videos in your content

• How to insert documents for download in your pages

• How to add an interactive contact form to your website

• How templates work, where to find templates and how to install templates

• How to optimise your website for the search engines

• How to set up a sitemap for your website

• How to create menus for your articles and position them in your template

• How to set up private pages for your website

Also included in the course

1. Joomla 1.5 Handbook guide - handy to have while building or updating your website
2. Free Joomla 1.5 template CD with over 200 templates to choose from
3. Free Uniform server, pre-loaded with the latest version of Joomla 1.5, This will give you a web server running on your local PC that you can use to develop your site without being connected to the Internet
4. Free Joomla plugins CD with pre-built applications to further enhance your website. Applications include Online Shopping Cart Software, Image Gallery Software, Business Directory software, Social Networking Software and much more

The course is meant for:

• Complete novices to web design

• Anyone who wants to learn how to create and maintain their own website

• HTML editor website designers who would like to get an introduction to Joomla

What other people say about the course:

"Fabulous! Learnt so much, hope I remember everything. Very professional manual. Amazing value for money - thank you so much."
Melanie Sutton  

"Baie Dankie; die praktiese aspek van die kursus is stunning. Dit help baie om die informasie beter te verstaan en toe te pas. Die uiteensetting van you manual is eenvoudig en verstaanbaar!"  
Annerine

"It was a very informative course, very practical exercises, lots of information, excellent course"
Muhammad

Sign up for the course now! Please note - a R210 discount will apply if you bring your own notebook. If you are bringing your own notebook, please deduct R210 off the price of R1710 when you make the payment (you only pay R1500)