Professional web design with Joomla technologies!

A professional website is absolutely necessary to reach clients, establish credibility, and promote your product or service. Using Joomla technologies it is now possible to create a professional website in a matter of hours. The best part is Joomla is free.

This introductory course will show you the simplicity and capabilities of Joomla. We will review examples of Joomla sites and show you how you can design a website with minimal technical experience.

Why Joomla

Versatile » Joomla! is a content management system ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial web sites, corporate intranets and extranets, and online publishing portals.

User-Friendly » Joomla! is designed to make it easy for users to manage all aspects of their projects. Site wizards, help icons, and a well-researched user interface allow universal ease-of-operation.

Feature-Rich » Joomla! comes loaded with a set of built-in tools that provide powerful pieces of functionality. Site hosting, design, content, security, and membership options are easily managed and customized through these tools.

Localized » Joomla! includes a multi-language localization feature which allows administrators to easily translate their projects and portals into any language.

Extensible » Joomla is able to create the most complex content management systems entirely with its built-in features, yet also allows administrators to work effectively with add-ons, third party assemblies, and custom tools. Site customization and functionality are limitless.

What does a Content Management System do for you?

A website content management system (CMS) is designed to run in the background of a public website. It allows administrators to edit content through an admin panel that is then shown and displays on the public frontend of the website. Often there are several levels of users who have control over the content on the website, these can be super admins, copy writers and editors. Using a special access control system through the web browser creators and editors can manage documents within the CMS. Overall the content management system controls and allows admins to manage workflows and business processes. Generally all content in the CMS is stored in an online SQL database system. This database system allows for quick and easy access by all applications and also affords strong security and backup capabilities. This kind of system also allows for version control of web pages.

What is a Joomla CMS Website?

A CMS or Content Management System is used for the control and editing of content. Content includes electronic files, images and video based media, audio files, electronic documents and web text. The main concept behind a CMS is to make these files available for editing inter-office or over the Internet. A CMS is often used to archive documents as well. Many companies use a CMS to organize and store files in public form. Companies using a CMS can share content with others easily, as most systems are server based. In the case of Joomla! it is a CMS based on a web server. A CMS being available on the Internet makes it available to you and your customers constantly and across the whole globe. Joomla! CMS is one of the many Content Management Systems (CMS) that includes a "workflow process." A "Workflow" process is the ability to move documents through a business process of approval. Some Content Management Systems provide the ability to control business flows and processes, like email alerts and automated business document flows. This is ideally a collaborative creation of documents. A CMS or document management system provides the business a way to control and publish to and from group of documents in a logical and organized manner, content, like images and multimedia items.

About the insctuctor

• Michael McGinn has 25 years of computer industry experience and is a Certified Joomla 1.5 Developer.

• Michael has provided technical services to such companies as Microsoft, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Simplot, Keytronix. Big Bend Community College, City of Moses Lake Parks & Recreation Dept and the United States Air Force.

• Michael is the owner of MyCMShosting.Com Web Hosting and is a Publisher of technical books and reports for his publishing house GeekZoneBooks.Com.

• Michael is the Author of "GeekZoneBooks.Com Guide to Wireless Networking History" Published in 2007 isbn#978-0-9802172-0-9