Workshop : Introducing Designers to Joomla : Sunday 18th October 2009

Presenter

Andrew Eddie
Andrew Eddie is the longest serving developer for the Joomla project and is able to provide strategic insight for development projects that can be offered by few other people in the world. As well as coding Joomla 1.6, Andrew also runs a Joomla consultancy NewLifeinIT, The Art of Joomla developer tutorials and blogs and partners with jXtended to offer Joomla extensions. Andrew will be offering insights in to Joomla 1.6, template over-rides, Joomla 2.0 and other technical delights.

Overview

Introducing Designers to Joomla is a short, half-day course that introduces designers to the Joomla templating system and customisation techniques.

This session is aimed at people who are already web savvy and have already designed static HTML page sites or dabbled with Joomla web site design. This session introduces the basic programmatic concepts behind how to build a Joomla template (but not about stylesheets and images).

Workshop Content

The following topics are covered during the session:

• The file structure of a Joomla template.
• How to include the head block, modules and the component in a Joomla template.
• An introduction to basic PHP syntax (the "if" statement) and some basic Joomla variables (getting information about the user that is logged in).
• The advantages of the output override system with respect to deploying sites for clients.
• Using layout overrides in components and modules.
• Using module chrome.
• Using pagination link overrides.

Time permitting (depending on questions), a brief introduction to designing a module and/or a brief introduction to the Joomla database schema may also be included.

For the full course outline see Introducing Designers To Joomla

AU$275 per person (including GST). This includes a FREE 12 month subscription to the Art of Joomla Developer Reference