Welcome to the Start Learning Joomla! 4 part mini-course for Joomla 1.5!
In this series, we'll discuss what you need to know to be a great Joomla administrator and provide a good starting point to launch further learning. This course is not intended to provide a complete understanding of Joomla. Far from it! We will, however, go over a few basic concepts. We will cover:
Know what you need to know!
You'll learn what Joomla administrators need to know to be effective.
Sections and Categories
We will break down how sections and categories work in Joomla 1.5 and discuss precisely how they work to organize articles.
Templates and Module Positions
We'll explain how templates and module positions work
Introduction to Menus
How menus work and how they relate to modules
By the end of this mini-course, you should understand how content is organized into sections, categories and articles and how menus work. It should provide you with the proper grounding for further learning.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following PDF files downloaded.
Start Learning Joomla Introduction Video Companion Guide (PDF)
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Joomla Training Checklist Card (PDF)
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Full Transcript for this Mini Course (PDF)
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Video 1
In this video, we're going to talk about how best to approach learning Joomla and introduce some basic concepts. We'll also talk about what other material we'll be covering.
In this small course, you'll learn about the basics of organizing content, Joomla sections & categories, modules and template positions, as well as laying your site out with Joomla menus. If you're already familiar with these concepts, don't worry, we cover the basics and move on into much more detail as we progress. And, if you know little or nothing about Joomla, you've come to the right place! We're going to start you at the very beginning and explain everything in plain English
Video 2
In this video, we're going to introduce Joomla and explain the basics of content, sections & categories. If you're already familiar with these concepts, don't worry, we cover the basics and move on into much more detail as we progress. If you don't have the PDF guide for this course, please be sure to download it at the link below before you continue.
Sections
Categories
Individual Articles
Joomla uses Sections and Categories to organize Articles. Joomla allows you to organize your site content into sections and further break those sections down into separate categories.
Video 3
Modules are simply blocks that appear on your website's frontend and perform some useful function for the user. These can be login boxes, menus in any position on the page, banners, who's online, or other similar elements.
You can also find plugins that add additional modules, or even have a programmer build new ones for you if you need something different for your site. We may sometimes need to pay a developer to build something unique for our site, or purchase a great third party extension that handles some critical functionality for our site. For the most common situations, however, Joomla provides the appropriate mix of flexible modules. Learning the theory behind modules and how to use them effectively is a critical skill for Joomla administrators
Video 4
Now that you have a good understanding of sections and categories as well as basic Template and module positions, we can dive right into the basics of how to construct menus for your site. If you are still a bit fuzzy on how to structure and organize your content with sections and categories, be sure to review the material in the associated PDF guide.
This particular video is pulled from the 90+ other videos from our Start Learning Joomla video training series. It's meant to be in-context with the rest of the material, but it works well as a stand-alone video and should serve to give you a great overview of how to construct menus for an example site
Here are links to the resources mentioned or otherwise useful for in this course:
Our Recommended Joomla Self-Study Path Page
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