9+ Hours of Video InstructionUploader's Note: This tutorial does NOT contain the short booklet included in the physical product -- this is the DVD only!!! Videos included may play in the included player software, but I find the latest version of the VLC video player handles the files very well.
Joomla! is a powerful solution for webmasters and developers working with all types of sites. In this one-of-a-kind video package, top Joomla consultant and Prentice Hall author Barrie M. North shows you exactly how to use Joomla! to build sophisticated websites that are incredibly easy to edit and update. You'll master Joomla! through 13 comprehensive video lessons, and you'll have your first Joomla! site running faster than you ever expected!
North walks you through every essential skill you'll need, including installation, administration, site and content organization, template development, content updates, and much more. Just click, watch, and learn the most efficient ways to build dynamic pages, provide intuitive navigation, work with modules and components, and even optimize Joomla! sites for search engines.
You'll then be able to watch as North builds four complete sites with Joomla!--a school site, a blog, a small business site, and a membership site--with every stage captured on video. You'll master Joomla! best practices at your own pace, as you learn how to deliver production-quality solutions quickly and efficiently!
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System Requirements
Operating System: Windows 98, 2000, XP, or Vista; Mac OS X
Multimedia: DVD drive, 1280 x 960 or higher display, and sound card with speakers
Computer: 500MHz or higher, 128MB RAM or more
Lesson 1 Content Management Systems and an Introduction to Joomla! [00:16:11]
Lesson 2 Downloading and Installing Joomla! [00:26:03]
Lesson 3 Joomla! Administration Basics [00:29:58]
Lesson 4 Organizing Your Content [00:37:28]
Lesson 5 Menus and Navigation [00:30:12]
Lesson 6 Extending Joomla! [00:41:32]
Lesson 7 Expanding Your Content: Articles and Editors [00:50:54]
Lesson 8 Getting Traffic to Your Site [00:29:17]
Lesson 9 Creating a Pure CSS Template [01:11:59]
Lesson 10 Creating a School Website [01:34:22] <-- [fixed]
Lesson 11 Creating a Restaurant Website [00:39:09] <-- [fixed]
Lesson 12 Creating a Blog Website [00:37:50] <-- [fixed]
Lesson 13 Creating a Membership Website [00:51:03] <-- [fixed]
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Welcome to the VTC course for Joomla!. I'm your instructor, Melanie Hedgespeth. In this course you will learn about the content management system named Joomla!. Joomla! is an open-source, free program that you can use to get total control of your website design, navigation, updates, text and much more. With Joomla! you can keep your site up to date very easily and add all kinds of extra elements. Things like polls, sign-ups and newsflashes. In this course, we're going to cover Joomla! basics, which includes installing Joomla!, how to get help with the program and also being aware of Joomla! terminology. It's definitely important to understand specific key terms within the program so you can easily manager your site and easily work with the software. Once we master those basics, we'll move into the actual content of our Joomla! site. We will work with all the elements including the menus, navigational items, articles, polls and much more. At this point you're going to have the skills to implement components into your site and then we'll work on editing those items and increasing the professionalism of your site. As we continue to learn, we will work with extensions, templates and managing users. If you have a site that grows, you're going to need to be able to add users who can help maintain and keep all that information up to date on your site. Finally, we're going to work with search engine optimization. It's great to have a wonderful website, but you need to be able to drive Internet traffic to your pages. We'll take a look at our options in that area. We have a lot to learn and Joomla! is a fun program to play with. So let's get started. Remember, throughout the course you can always e-mail me with questions or you can go to my website; it's MyTechRelief.com. If you go to the Contact area I have a little mebo chat there. You can see if I'm online and I can answer your questions quickly. So let's get started with Joomla! and start learning. 
Joomla Magic is a set of Video Tutorials and a PDF guide to help users learn and understand how to use Joomla easily and successfully.
