Introduction to Joomla

• What is Joomla?
• What’s a CMS?
• Advantages of Using CMS
• What is a database?

Installation

• Where to Download Joomla
• Where to Download Local Web Server Application
• Installing the local database (XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP)
• Installing Joomla (Windows/Mac)
• Accessing Website’s Frontend and Backend

Understanding Joomla’s Control Panel

• Menu Bar
• Add New Articles
• Article Manager
• Front Page Manager
• Section Manager
• Category Manager
• Media Manager
• Menu Manager
• Language Manager
• User Manager
• Global Configuration
• Logged in Users
• Popular
• Recent Added Articles
• Menu Stats

Configuring Joomla after Installation

All about Content

• What’s a Content?
• What’s an Article?
• Adding Content/Article
• Adding Article(s) to the FrontPage/Homepage
• Arranging the order of Articles Displayed on the FrontPage
• Editing Aticles
• Changing the Layout on the FrontPage
• Creating individual pages of Content
• Minimizing the display of articles through Read More and Page Break
• Deleting and Retrieving Deleted Articles

Designing and Formatting Content

• Getting to know the TinyMCE / WYSIWYG Editor

Creating Hyperlinks

• What’s a Relative Hyperlink?
• What’s an Absolute Hyperlink?
• Creating Different Hyperlink
  • Text Hyperlink
  • Image Hyperlink
  • Email Hyperlink
  • PDF Hyperlink
  • Download Hyperlink
  • Named Anchors

Embedding Multimedia

• Managing your Media Content with the Media Manager
• Embedding Images
• Embedding Videos
  • Inserting Internal Video
  • Inserting External Video

Organizing Articles into Sections and Categories

• What are Sections and Categories?
• Creating a Sections and Categories
• Adding Articles to Sections and Categories
• Section and Category Display Formats

Article Configuration and Settings

• Article Global Parameters (Site-wide Parameters)
• Article Parameters (Overriding Article Global Parameters)
• Article Access Levels
• Article Publishing Parameters
• Article Metadata

Working with Menus

• Parent Menu Item and Sub-menu item
• Menu Item Details
• External Link Menu
• Menu Separator
• Search Menu
• Menu Wrapper
• Changing the Order of Menu items
• Menu item Page Title
• Changing the site’s Default Loading Page
• Deleting Menu Items
• Restoring Menu Items
• Creating additional Menu

Using Extensions

• What are Extensions?
• Installing and Uninstalling Extensions
• Working with Different Extensions?
  • Modules
  • Plugins
  • Component
  • Laguage
  • Template

Managing Templates

• What is a Template?
• Joomla’s Pre-installed Templates
• Installing Templates
• Assigning different Templates to specific Pages
• Template Parameters
• Editing the Template’s Images
• Editing the Template’s CSS and HTML codes

User Management

• Adding Users
• User Permissions

Understanding the Global Configuration

Additional Tools

• Joomla Messaging
  • Read Messages
  • Write Messages
  • Mass Messaging
• Global Check-in
• Clean Cache
• Purge Expired Cache

Optimization your content for Search Engine Indexing

• Search Engine Friendly URLs
• Adding Metadata to Articles and Global Configurations (Keywords & Description)

Site Publishing

• • Looking for the right Web Host
  • Backing-up and Exporting the database (localhost)
  • Importing the database to your Webhost
  • FTP Publishing
  • Configuring the configuration.php file
  • Site Backup