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Houston Joomla Beginner Training, January 12

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CT)

Houston, TX

Houston Joomla Beginner Training, January 12

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Ticket Type Remaining Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Houston Joomla Beginner Ticket 7 tickets Ended $299.00 $0.00

Event Details

  • Want to learn more about Joomla?
  • Want to learn how to run a Joomla site professionally?
  • Want to ask questions and get answers from Joomla experts?

Joomla Training is for you!

We are running a custom Joomla training course for people in Houston. The training is on July 31st from 9AM to 4PM. This course is for beginning Joomla users and web professionals.

Who Should Attend

  • Individuals wanting to learn Joomla best practices.
  • Business owners or employees responsible for their company's website.
  • Web Designers looking to expand their service offerings by providing Joomla sites for clients.
  • Individuals considering Joomla 1.5 for your next project.
  • Web Professionals looking to save time by learning from Joomla experts.

Subjects Taught

You'll learn how to build a Joomla website, from content organization, optimization, working with extensions and basic web marketing. Topics include:

  • Part 1: Introduction to Joomla including 1.0 and 1.5
  • Part 2: Site-wide settings and user management
  • Part 3: Setting up and organizing menus and navigation
  • Part 4: Managing content articles
  • Part 5: Working with Joomla components
  • Part 6: Using Joomla modules and plugins
  • Part 7: Choosing and configuring Joomla templates
  • Part 8: How to manage Joomla websites professionally and securely

Your Trainer

    Robbie Adair
  • Trainer: Robbie Adair
  • Background: Robbie, CEO of Media A-team since 2002, specializes in marketing and media products for clients and provides training, one-on-one or in groups, to clients. In 2005, she began migrating Mambo clients to the breakaway, Joomla. She has been training people in computer software since starting as a corporate trainer for Moore Business Forms in 1994, training new composers on a proprietary UNIX application, and now has four years of Joomla training experience. She not only is comfortable in front of a classroom, but loves it! Her Joomla expertise extends to custom templates and customizations to Joomla components to exactly fit clients needs, and, in her spare time, created a simple module called the Xena Random Quote Module available on Sourceforge.

Additional Items Provided

  • Lunch and coffee / snacks throughout the day.
  • A flash drive full of tutorials and best-of-breed Joomla components.
  • Six months support after the class
  • Free membership to the Alledia.com SEO Club. ($99 value)
  • Free copy of the Alledia.com Bolt Template. ($60 value)

Refund Policy

  • 4 weeks before event = 100% refund
  • 3 weeks before event = 50% refund
  • 2 weeks before event = no refund available



When & Where



ExecuTrain of Houston
3831 Golf Drive
Houston, TX 77018

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CT)


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Open Source Training has expert teachers and a wide variety of courses across North America. We Over the last three years we have held an average of two Joomla, Drupal and WordPress classes every singly week. Open Source Training continues to be the leader in helping people understand and learn Open Source CMSs.

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