Meeting Agendas

28th June 2008

  1. XAMP installed
  2. Why Joomla?
    1. Short history
    2. CMS is the future of websites
    3. Other products; Drupal, Typo3, others.
    4. End Usability
    5. Accessibility
    6. Flexibility
    7. Modularity
    8. Many, many features
    9. Open source / GPL (love it)
    10. Community support
    11. Hired guns
  3. How Joomla works with php, mysql and apache
    1. Webpage no longer exists as we know it
    2. Php.ini – upload file limit
    3. .htaccess file – site security
  4. Installing SQLyog
  5. Backup, backup, backup
  6. Htdocs shortcut
  7. Install Joomla
    1. FTP now or later
    2. Sample data
    3. Admin login
    4. Delete “Installation folder”
    5. Site vs Admin
  8. Site
    1. Templates
    2. Where are modules – ….index.php?tp=1
    3. Shift – reload
  9. Admin
    1. Backend bits and pieces
    2. Components, Modules, Plugins
    3. Install a template
  10. Website Development
    1. Freemind – brilliant tool
    2. Contents, contents, contents
    3. Sections, Categories, Articles
    4. Articles, Categories, Sections
    5. Extension must have – JoomlaPack

Responses

  1. [...] Meeting Agendas [...]

    By: Meeting agendas « Kiama Joomla User Group on June 2, 2008
    at 10:26 pm

  2. Thanks Tim.

    By: seacat66 on June 3, 2008
    at 1:11 am

  3. Thanks Tim, great agenda…am looking forward to going over these things again…as my short and long term memory are shot

    By: su15 on June 9, 2008
    at 8:28 pm

  4. Looking forward to this meeting as I now have SOME idea of what these items are about. Have already been using FreeMind – very keen on that one! Key homework for me has been to get the Joomla underpinning components/roles straight in my head – lots of research been happening here!

    By: seacat66 on June 23, 2008
    at 9:11 pm


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