1-day Joomla Beginners training course - 22nd May 2013

Learn Joomla! is holding another of it's popular 1 day beginners training courses in London on Wednesday 6th February, 2013.

The course will feature Joomla! 2.5, the new long term stable version of Joomla, plus Joomla 1.5 which has been used to build most Joomla websites over the last three years. 

Participants are encouraged to bring along their latest website project to work with and receive hands on support and help in the workshop section.  The course is aimed at Joomla! beginners who are developing their first website with this CMS, or or who have had a site built for them and want to know how it works and how to keep it up to date. 

The venue is the Artists Room, at the Conway Hall , in Central London, a few minutes walk from Holborn underground station.  The venue is a short tube or bus ride from the main railway stations at Kings Cross, St. Pancras and Euston, and is easily reached by tube from Waterloo, Liverpool Street and Paddington.

Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm.  Cost: £195 plus VAT, payable in advance.   Lunch, coffee and tea will be provided.  You will need to bring your own laptop to work on your own project.  Free copies of the Joomla 2.5, 1.5 and 1.0 ebooks are included with the course (worth over £50), together with copies of the course notes in Open Office format, and a CD ROM of useful Joomla extensions.

The course agenda is as follows:

• Introductions, discussion of attendees training goals
  Introduction to Joomla  Key Concepts
  Building your first Joomla Website (Part 1), a hands on demonstration
          – the first steps
  
          Install Joomla on your laptop
  Coffee
  
  Building your first Joomla Website (Part 2)
          – using extensions and user access management
  
  Q & A
  
  Lunch
  
  Editing and Maintaining your website with the Joomla Content Editor (JCE)
  
  Designing your website
          – using Joomla templates and Artisteer to create your visual design
  
  Building a bigger website – using Joomla extensions
  
  Tea
  
  Workshop.
          Applying Joomla to your projects, Q&A, Tips & Tricks and next steps.
  
          Review of training goals
  
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