Workshop Outline
The Joomla! in Jasper Weekend is a series of workshops held over three days where you learn how to build a Joomla 1.5 website from start to finish. You'll be guided step-by-step through how best to leverage Joomla, the world’s most popular free and open source content management system, for your small business or organization. You’ll learn all the tricks and tips that the pros use and all the best places to find free online support. At the end of the day, you will have a site that's ready to go live online at no cost but for the cost of your domain registration fees and website hosting fees.
The class is beginner to intermediate level Joomla training. No previous knowledge of Joomla is needed. More advanced users will also benefit as a wide range of topics are addressed.
Who Should Attend?
• Individuals who want to know how to build a site with Joomla
• Business owners or employees responsible for their company’s website
• Designers who want to offer Joomla sites to their clients
What Will I Learn?
The two day weekend workshop of eight 90 minute presentations and demonstrations is designed to give students a complete picture of everything they need to know to build and maintain a successful Joomla website. Starting from the best way to plan and build your sections and categories, optimizing your navigation for usability all the way to hands-on techniques to get traffic and market your website. You’ll learn how to build a Joomla website from the ground up, how to work with extensions and how to optimize your site for search engines.
Day one:
Section 1: Introduction to open source content management systems and Joomla
Section 2: How to set up the site structure for your Joomla site
Section 3: How to choose extensions to enhance the site’s functionality
Section 4: How to choose and work with templates and CSS
Day two:
Section 5: How to build membership driven websites with Joomla
Section 6: How to create an online store on your site
Section 7: how to optimize your site for search engines
Section 8: How to manage multiple Joomla sites
Each section will run consecutively for 90 minutes with fifteen minute breaks between and a lunch break at the half way point. Each class will also have time devoted to addressing and answering problems tht you are experiencing with using Joomla 1.5 to create websites.
Who are the Trainers?
There will be three experienced Joomla! trainers at the workshops, Marilyn Jones from RiverCity Productions, and Kerry Crawford from www.whomadeyoursite.com both from Edmonton, Alberta and Laura and Kevin Wheeler from Firelight Web Studio in Wyoming. Laura teaches a Joomla class at university of Wyoming.
All students will leave with:
List of resources to yet be posted here and includes a complete Joomla 1.5 site
Additional Information
You’ll need to bring your own laptop although there will be some computers available for those without laptops. Each student will receive a live online practice site as part of the instruction.
For questions, please contact us using the contact form in the contact section until we get the site finished.
Cancellation Policy
If you need to cancel your registration, you will receive a refund depending on the time of your cancellation:
- 4 weeks before event = 90% refund
- 3 weeks before event = 50% refund
- 2 weeks before event = no refund available
Cost $429 before July 15, 2009 | $479 thereafter
Price does not include accommodation or transportation to and from Jasper but such things can be arranged for your convenience.
- We can arrange train transportation to and from Edmonton and include it in your registration fee at the cost of $279 for a return ticket.
- We can arrange for hotel accommodations at the Sawridge Inn & Conference Centre (at the special rate of $150 per night).Please note: If paying by cheque, your registration will not be confirmed until we receive it.