Fwd: 9th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications: Abstract submission

Jumping Jiving Joomla!

The Joomla CMS training workshop that was submitted has been accepted for presentation at the WWW Applications conference later this year - a definite victory for Joomla in Southern Africa.  Delegates will be from numerous other institutions, corporates and the business sector.

An added bonus, is that the Joomla Southern African Portal will have an exhibition stand at the event to advocate and publicise the world's best CMS (as voted at Linux World 2005 and 2006).

Joomla for all
all for Joomla

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From: vanbrakelp@cput.ac.za < vanbrakelp@cput.ac.za>
Date: 07-Apr-2007 00:32
Subject: 9th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications: Abstract submission
To: sgrant@pan.uzulu.ac.za

Dear Mr SG Grant

Your abstract for a Workshop presentation for the 9th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications has been uploaded to the conference database as follows:

ABSTRACT: JOOMLA CMS TRAINING WORKSHOP

Mr SG Grant
Communication Science
University of Zululand
KwaDlangezwa
South Africa
sgrant@pan.uzulu.ac.za

Keywords:
Joomla content management system, Departmental websites, Wysiwyg editors, Open source software, Web portals

This workshop is designed for anyone with basic computer skills who want to get a dynamic web site up and running fast. At the end of the workshop you will have your own Joomla! web site on your memory stick, and be able to add news, events, links, users, content pages, media and understand how to make the most of your Joomla! powered website.

(minimum of 3, maximum 10 per workshop, time required 4 hours)

The workshop will cover the following topics;

    * Introduction to Open Source Software
    * Overview of the Joomla CMS!
    * Quick tour of some Joomla! powered websites
    * Intro to Joomla! site structure & control panel
    * How To: Edit content using various WYSIWYG editor
    * How To: Load media and insert it into content
    * How To: Add content & components to menus incl. copy, move & order
    * How To: Select & install extensions (modules, components & mambots)
    * Q & A Session - come prepared to ask all your questions about Joomla Development and Management


Participants: You may suggest a topic prior to the workshop that you would like me to cover in more detail during the workshop.

What is Joomla! ?

If you''ve read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you''ll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive.

Joomla! is set to change all that ...

Joomla! is different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, it''s not complicated. Joomla! has been developed for the masses. It''s licensed under the GNU/GPL license, easy to install and administer and reliable.

Joomla! doesn''t even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it''s up and running.

Overview of www.Joomla.org.za , the Joomla! Southern African portal of information, resources and services

Joomla! features:

    * Completely database driven site engines
    * News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
    * Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
    * Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes
    * Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
    * Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
    * Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX



What is Joomla South Africa?

The Joomla South African Community portal has been created by one of South Africa''s biggest Joomla fans (that would be me, Slingshot Sean).  I have been using Joomla sites for a number of years now, and am actively engaged in teaching and training clients and students, hosting and developing their Joomla sites.   I  hope to promote the use of Joomla to South Africans, who are relatively ignorant of many open source solutions that can be employed with ease and managed with convenience.

Joomla.org.za is geared to support and connect users, designers, developers, hosts and other interested folk, in a neutral meeting space, which keeps users abreast of Joomla developments and happenings from a South African perspective.

Sincerely

PROF PIETER VAN BRAKEL

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Regards

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