Joomla Training at The School of Joomla

Joomlashack Welcomes Brian Teeman, co-founder of Joomla!

and Open Source Matters as the new Director of the School of Joomla Training at Joomlashack University.

Great New Content: 90+ Minutes of expert Joomla Training on Akeeba Backup

Our School of Joomla is the easiest, fastest way to learn to build a Joomla! powered website, period. However the School of Joomla is not just for newbies. From our Director's blog:

So you think you know Joomla?

You already know that Joomla! gives you the power to quickly and easily build and maintain web sites. However, unless you understand the terminology, principles, and secrets of Joomla, you will never make it sing and dance. Do you want to make Joomla sing and dance?

Do you know the difference between a stylist and a designer? A stylist can make things look good but a designer creates! Have you been getting by merely as a stylist? Are you ready to start creating?

Are you tired of your amateur status and ready to become a Pro?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then you owe it to yourself to join the School of Joomla Training at Joomlashack University and let me teach you how it is meant to be done. I will show how you should do things from now on so that they are easier to do, so that they work better, so that they work more reliably and so they look nicer.

I will teach you to do things "the correct way".

Our lessons and video tutorials will give you the skills to easily and quickly build and maintain your web site(s) leaving you the time to concentrate on the important things, the content, new customers, etc. I will make your life easier. I don't want you to struggle and wonder what all those options and buttons are for. If I didn't tell you to change that option or touch that button then you can leave it alone.

You will learn to do things right from the start and when you're ready to take that next step we will be with you every step of the way. With new training videos added each week I will share with you some of the many tips and tricks that the "professionals" try to keep for themselves.

The School of Joomla Training will save you time and money. You'll be kicking yourself for not enrolling earlier.

Brian Teeman

Our comprehensive, narrated screencast video tutorials, written tutorials, and over-the-top support make learning Joomla as fast and easy as possible. We hate getting frustrated with software as much as you do, and honestly, learning how to get a great looking site on the web with Joomla doesn’t have to be frustrating... at all. 

Here’s how Joomlashack University can help get going with Joomla in no time:

• You'll need zero knowledge of creating websites
• You'll save dozens and dozens of hours of your time
• You can ask questions directly to top Joomla expert instructors about things taught in the university
• Minimize your frustration as you travel the Joomla learning curve
• We tie everything together for you, making Joomla extremely easy to learn. It's like having the missing Joomla manual.
• You'll learn how to use Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 1.5 plus several other critical software tools needed to create a website
• Learn by watching easy-to-absorb, narrated video tutorials and reading clear, step-by-step written tutorials with photos
• Absorb the lessons at your own pace
• No need to pay a web designer hundreds of dollars each year... do things yourself!.
• Get a professional, commercial Joomlashack template FOR FREE (our Inspirion template) as part of the course - a $47 value!

How to Install Joomla 1.7 on a remote webhost

(Note: Depending on your browser, you may need Adobe Flash to view the videos. Get it free.)

Joomlashack recommends BlueHost for your Joomla site.

More Free Sample lessons:

1. How to use Mailchimp with a Joomla site for your email marketing platform

2. How to create automated daily backups of a Joomla site with Akeeba Backup Pro

3. Securing your site against hackers with the OSE Security Suite

Read what others are saying about Joomla Training at Joomlashack University.

Want to know more? Let me take you on a tour of the powerful benefits of being a Joomlashack University member.

1. You'll be able to install Joomla and create a site fast

Even if you've never tried to create a website, you'll be able to start at step one in one of our beginner's courses (either the Joomla 1.7 or Joomla 1.5 beginner's course) and learn Joomla step-by-step. You'll find out what Joomla is quickly, and have everything you need to learn how to create your own Joomla powered website.

We've designed the beginner Joomla 1.5 course of Joomlashack University with beginners in mind (and the intermediate course picks up where the beginner course ends.) We've included everything you might need to know, from the Joomla installation process to bug testing your site.

2. You'll save loads of time learning to use Joomla software

Yes, Joomla software is open-source and doesn't cost dollars, but if you try to teach yourself how to use it by fumbling through forums, you'll be spending a lot of your time trying to figure out how everything fits together...how it all functions as a whole system.

In our courses, we'll show you exactly how to install Joomla and use it properly at each step. If you were to try and figure out how to do this on your own, it would likely take hours of research and cobbling together various information from different Joomla how to articles.

The bottom line is that our Joomla training courses can save you serious amounts of time, and if your time is worth money, then...well, you get the point.

"Hi all,

JoomlaShack University and I are great friends. We see one another almost every day. If I need a little top-up on a technique for Joomla, K2, JomSocial…

Forest Linden’s excellent video tutorials on Joomla are so thorough, easily understood and informative. I download the transcripts, print them and bind them, giving me a great ready reference.

I’d recommend JoomlaShack University to beginning Joomla users and more experienced ones. You can always reinforce what you know – or think you know!

Thanks JoomlaShack for great online training!"

3. You'll be taught everything you need, nothing else required

Our beginner's courses cover everything you'll need to get a simple, professional, Joomla powered site up on the web quickly, which means that you won't be left having to figure out how to do things like setting up a webhost account, or how to create email accounts on your server.

Joomla software is amazing, but to create a website with it takes much more than just knowing how to use Joomla by itself. Most of the Joomla tutorials I've seen only show the bare Joomla basics, which leaves you with big gaps of knowledge...gaps that need to be filled somehow if you're going to get a live, working Joomla powered website on the web.

When you're trying to learn something new, gaps in knowledge are not fun or helpful. In the Joomla beginner's course, we take you from the very first step all the way through to the end, and in addition to teaching you the basics of using Joomla, we also show you things like how to:

• buy a domain name from reliable sources
• set up a webhost account
• install and set up some of the most popular extensions for Joomla
• create email accounts on your server
• find and prepare images for your site
• get help and support for fixing problems with your Joomla template
• point your domain name to your site
• find and fix bugs
• install Google Analytics on your site
• submit your site to the major search engines
• set up uptime monitoring for your site
• ...and a whole lot more

Our Intermediate Joomla 1.5 course will take you beyond the basic Joomla skills and into learning how to greatly extend the capabilities of your site with popular Joomla extensions and useful web applications that can be used with Joomla software.

You'll learn things like how to build several ecommerce solutions into a Joomla website, how to use Wordpress right inside of Joomla, how to use the new ACL features of Joomla 1.7, and how to do advanced code customization to your Joomla templates, among many other lessons on Joomla.

See the full list of lessons from our Beginner, Intermediate, How-To, and "Creating Content Websites" courses.

4. You'll get top-notch Joomla help when you need it

In my opinion, being able to ask questions about the things you're trying to learn (and get clear answers from experts) is a basic, fundamental necessity to any successful learning process. As a member of Joomlashack University, you'll be able to do that in each of our courses. If you get stuck somewhere, or if something isn't quite making sense, just ask us about it in the private forums for the course and we'll be there to help you out.

Join Joomlashack University now and stop wasting time trying to teach yourself Joomla.

Here's what you'll be getting if you sign up today for as low as $39:

• High quality video and written tutorials about the Joomla content management system, optimized for easy learning.
• A commercial Joomlashack template (called Inspirion) included for free ($47 value)
• Access to all of the Joomla course materials and forums
• Training and interaction with a top Joomla pro
• Access to the quickest, easiest way to learn how to install Joomla
• Knowledge and confidence that you can take with you
• Enough saved time and money that you could go on vacation to Hawaii

If you'd like to learn how to build successful websites with Joomla the easy way, sign up now. We look forward to helping you learn how to use Joomla in the course!

What are others saying about the course?

"Thank you very much. Money well spent" I've gone through most of the ShackU videos and I'm truly happy. What a Great job. Please keep up the high standards. I watched a ShackU video, "Creating a blog with K2" by Forest Linden. I just want to say, "excellent job Forest!!". It's very rarely that I can find a video where everything is done just about perfect. Visually the videos are clear and look great even when expanded to full screen. You speak clearly. You stay on topic. It's obvious you guys/gals at JoomlaShack put time into making sure these videos meet some kind of quality standard before publication. Either that or your just a very multi-talented individual Forest... I use Camtasia to make how-to videos for retirees learning to use computers for the first time. It's not an easy task to get right. I think I spend almost 45mins of editing for every 5-10mins of video I make. That's why I'm impressed with the work done at ShackU. Thank you! Joshua Banks "   Joshua Banks - Joomlashack University Student

 

"I have purchased four books related to Joomla, spent countless hours on the internet and Joomlashack University is by far the best use of my time and money. Thank you, thank you, thank you.   Karen Carter - Joomlashack University Student

 

"I must say that the Joomlashack University and your quick replies are FANTASTIC. I am so glad I found you guys, as it has been great working with you and the University movies are so easy to follow. No need to pay some local website builder $5000.00 to build me a website!   Parrish Macleod - Joomlashack University Student Fijihomestays.com

 

"First, I would like to say that I really, really enjoy your online tutorials on JU. I am a web master for my company's website, sorinroyercooper.com, and I can't tell you how helpful your tutorials have been to me. They are informative, helpful, and very easy to follow. They have saved me countless hours trying to read through books and they have saved my company a lot of money. Not to mention they have also saved me a lot of aggravation. Thank you!   Matt Loy - Joomlashack University Student Webfresh.net

 

"I'm really new to Joomla! I've been with Joomlashack for about 6 weeks. In those 6 weeks...I've been able to create 1 1/2 rather complicated sites. Which to me is phenomenal, because I had been "teaching" myself for almost 5 months before that; and hadn't gotten anywhere except for how to download and install Joomla, pretty much. Forest is an amazing teacher. He's thorough, kind, prompt, patient, and has forethought. His videos are very detail-oriented and super easy to understand. I've been taught on various online courses, I'd have to say that Joomlashack U is my absolute favorite!"   Brenda Meritt-Motta, Founder: Into Me See the Music

 

"I wanted to let you know that I am very happy with your university courses, I have been playing around with joomla for about 1 year now and have not seemed to get as much from books and the joomla.org site as I have gotten from your videos. Thanks alot!   Jim Pyle - Joomlashack University Student

 

"Hi, As part of a small software house based in Scotland, I have a lot of experience building back-office database systems. Over the last few years I have built a few static websites using Dreamweaver but nothing database-driven. After picking up a book on Joomla about 6 months ago in a local bookstore it wasn’t long before I decided this was a great way to become involved in database-driven websites. I had some professional assistance getting my first client website live but courtesy of the Joomlashack University course we have been able to launch the second site unassisted. I have found the course content to be extremely helpful, relevant and absorbing. You have gone the ‘extra mile’ in sharing your knowledge and this has saved me countless hours trying to ferret out the information myself. I would recommend this course to anyone interested in Joomla. Congratulations. Please keep it going! Thank you!"   Richard Walsh - Joomlashack University Student

 

"The well known Joomla experts at Joomlashack proved once again to be a great resource to get you up to speed with Joomla and keep you there. With Joomlashack University they help you to become a real Joomla Graduate. Joomlashack University provides you with a growing number of crystal clear tutorials, both written and video. All users, either beginner or experienced, will find these step by step tutorials easy to use, very well organized and crystal clear. If you'd like to take full control over Joomla, I'd recommend you to join Joomlashack University and follow the growing number of online courses."   Michel Van Agtmaal - CEO, Open Source Support Desk

 

"I am pretty new to Joomla and thanks to your University I was able to create our company’s website PS Next and fell in love with Joomla in the process :)"   Peter Rosenfeldt - Joomlashack University Student

 

"If you are just starting with Joomla, and you want to have an easy start, JoomlaShack university is a great tool that will get you going in no time."   Merav Knafo - CEO, iJoomla.com

 

"Thanks Forest! I have been wanting to build a joomla website for my husband’s business for a long time, but it seemed so complicated that I just kept putting it off. Your course is showing me that I was right and wrong. It is, in fact, a very complicated process to build my own joomla site… HOWEVER, the way you have laid out the course with such amazing clarity in the videos and written tutorials is making the whole process seem pretty simple – and actually quite fun!"   Kim Golden - Joomlashack University student

 

"This is BY FAR the best money I’ve spent to learn Joomla. I have bought books, read info online, taken other tutorials. This program makes things crystal clear."   K.G. - Joomlashack University Student

 

"Even though I have been using Joomla for a while and have even built some sites already (and I have even attended other training events in person), I have to say that Joomlashack University is the best so far. There were many things I had already done but there were other things that the videos showed me that I had never seen or didn’t understand. Having access to the videos is priceless, I’ve watched them all several times and they are always nearby for quick reference. I’m thrilled that I was able to get in on the “ground floor” and plan on staying a member for a long time. Thanks, this resource is great!"   Craig Wilson - Joomlashack University Student