Lynda - Joomla 3 Essential Training - 2014

Year: Dec 13, 2012 Updated Sep 17, 2013
Author: Jen Kramer
Duration: 9h 41m
Format: MOV
Video: AVC 960x540 15fps ~300Kbps
Аudio: AAC 48kHz 1ch 128Kbps


In this course, Jen Kramer shows how to use Joomla! to build a website from scratch—all without a single line of code. Discover how to create and organize content, add menus and sidebars, change the look of the site with templates, control who creates and edits content, and much more. The course also shows you how to evaluate the quality of extensions, plugins, and templates and how to download and install them. Finally, Jen emphasizes the importance of backing up your Joomla! site, and explains how to create and store those backups.
Topics include:
What is Joomla!?
Completing Joomla! installation
Planning your website
Organizing content in Joomla!
Creating categories, articles, and menus
Formatting text and images
Using modules and components
Identifying and installing good-quality third-party extensions and templates
Supporting multiple languages with Joomla!
Managing users and their permissions
Changing the look of the site with templates

Content:
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
Understanding Joomla!
Planning your website
Understanding Joomla's release cycle and versions

1. Installing Joomla!
Understanding the installation process
Running Joomla! locally vs. running Joomla! on a web host
Web hosting overview
Installing Joomla! 3.0
Restoring the site from a backup using the jump-in files

2. A General Overview of Joomla!
A quick tour of the Joomla! interface
Exploring responsive design in Joomla!
Modifying the global configuration
Using the Media Manager
Creating content in Joomla!

3. Creating Categories
Creating categories for your site
Publishing, unpublishing, and trashing categories

4. Creating Articles and Basic Formatting
Creating individual articles
Formatting articles
Adding an external link
Adding article images
Using Read More
Exploring featured articles and pages
Publishing, unpublishing, and trashing articles

5. Creating Menus for Your Site
Understanding and configuring menus
Linking an article to the menu
Understanding parent and children menu items
Configuring Category Blogs
Advanced Category Blog configuration
Configuring Category Lists
Advanced Category List configuration
Creating a featured blog for the News page and configuring the homepage
Publishing, unpublishing, and trashing menu items
Creating a new menu and a login link, and displaying the menu in the footer
Creating menu aliases
Reordering menu items
Adding products, moving the main menu, and configuring a dropdown menu
Configuring secondary navigation

6. Advanced Article Formatting
Linking to a PDF or other document
Dividing and formatting long articles using page breaks and the Pagebreak plugin
Customizing which HTML tags are permitted by changing the text filter in Joomla!
Adding a YouTube video to an article
Using article-specific images and links
Styling images with bootstrap classes

7. Setting Display Options
Setting global configuration options for articles
Setting menu display options
Comparing page headings, article titles, and browser page titles
Turning off the homepage heading
Configuring the back-end and front-end article administrator screens and options

8. Using Modules
Configuring modules
Creating a search module
Creating a custom HTML module
Modifying the breadcrumb module
Creating a random image module
Including a module in an article using loadposition
Exploring administrator modules and turning on the Joomla! version

9. Using Components
Using the content component
Using the contact component
Formatting the contact page
Configuring CAPTCHA for a form
Creating a contact list
Formatting the contact list
Using the weblinks component
Using the redirect component

10. Using Templates
Changing the look of the site using templates
Setting the default template style and assigning template styles
Creating new template styles
Adjusting template masters with the HTML and CSS editors
Adding an editor.css style sheet for access to certain classes in TinyMCE
Introducing the Hathor admin template
Customizing the Isis admin template
Working with Joomla! templates from third-party providers

11. Creating a Website with Multiple Languages
Multilanguage site overview and configuration
Downloading and installing the Italian language pack
Creating the Italian content language
Adjusting category structures for multiple languages
Creating Italian language articles and adjusting English articles
Creating the English menu and a universal homepage
Changing menu modules on the site
Creating the Italian menu
Creating Italian and English template styles
Creating the language switcher module
Enabling the Language Filter system plugin
Debugging with the multilanguage status module
Turning off WAMP error reporting

12. Access Control List (ACL) Essentials
Introduction to ACL
Exploring default groups in Joomla!
Creating a user
Exploring default access levels
Configuring content for users behind a login
Configuring content for guest access
Configuring user registration and user options
Configuring a logout button
Configuring a better login screen and adding an Edit Profile button
Extending user profiles
Working with user notes

13. Extending Joomla! 3
Evaluating extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory
Installing and creating a backup with Akeeba Backup
Installing and creating a site map with Xmap
Upgrading extensions

14. Launching Your Site and Beyond
Preparing a site for launch
Launching a site
Placing a site in offline mode and changing the offline image
Thinking about site maintenance and front-end editing
Understanding the importance of backups and coordinating backups with a web host
Updating your Joomla! site and the Joomla! update notification

15. Joomla! 3.0.2 Update
Working with language overrides
Working with multilingual associations

16. Joomla! 3.1.5 Update
Upgrading your site to Joomla! 3.1.5 (New)
Upgrading your Joomla! extensions (New)
Introducing tagging (New)
Displaying tagged items on the menu (New)

Conclusion
Next steps

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