Great news from BiD! I will be teaching a Joomla template building class, in conjunction with JoomlaTraining.com, April 24th in Miami and June 18th in Atlanta. The 7 hour class will cover everything you need to know from template tags to advanced techniques with template parameters and overrides. To ensure good classroom interaction, the module has limited occupancy so jump on board soon!
The second video of the basic J! 1.5 Admin series briefly covers the main Joomla! website and how to use the most common, necessary aspects of it.
I posted this on the JOOMLA forums but thought it pertinent for the site at well:
After doing so many sites for clients over the years, I’ve noticed a trend when going to train them in cms and blogging systems like WordPress and Joomla.
Both systems, I feel, have fairly good naming conventions, as related to the core features. i.e. “plugins, modules, templates, menus” etc. I was glad to see Joomla change terminology from “mambots” to “plugins”. Every time I would use that word “mambot” to a client their eyes would glaze over and wander into infinity. The point: Semantics and word association is very important in this business. It’s the difference between relating a complicated system and a simple system.
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Here’s the first video in a series of Basic Joomla Administration videos. This intro to JOOMLA reviews the general features and benefits of using JOOMLA. Continue reading
In converting a static theme to a Joomla template today, I decided to record part of it for preview’s sake. A related tutorial series coming soon will illustrate, in detail, what this video overviews. It’s a great clip to just watch how a portion of it is done!
I have some exciting news! Beautyindesign.com is changing it’s face, it’s business model, and it’s content. A long time has passed since there has been activity on BiD but that’s all changing now! 2009 has some exciting news in store…