
Chapter 1 Introduction - Guide to Joomla 5 Course
I will teach you Joomla 5. Joomla is an award winning CMS. Joomla is a piece of software that you can install and use to create a website, blog and so on. Between various topics you will learn a series of Joomla guide to build website in Joomla. In this video I am giving introduction to Joomla
1. Introduction
1.1. Welcome to the Course
1.2. What Is Joomla?
1.3. Where I can get Joomla?
1.4. What’s new in Joomla 5?
Welcome to the second lesson of this course.
In this lesson you're going to learn how to work locally with Joomla, and also what kind of software you need. You will learn following
2. The Basics
2.1. Where to get WAMP and install Joomla locally
2.2. Make your website multilingual ready
Welcome to the 3rd lesson of this course “Guide to Joomla 5”.
Today you will be Getting Familiar With the Joomla admin Dashboard, the topic we will cover includes:
Home Dashboard
Content
Menus
Components
Users
System
Help
Home Dashboard
After successful login, first, we have a home dashboard, which includes site, system, 3rd party, notifications, sample data, logged-in users, Recently Added Articles, Latest Actions, Privacy Dashboard, and Popular Articles. Now these blocks include content management, site maintenance and settings, site notifications, actions, logs, and reports.
Content
In Content menu, we have Articles, Categories, Fields, Media, site and admin Modules, all the things you need to build your content.
Menus
In menus, we can manage website menus and menu items.
Components
Components list all installed components in our system, core ones (like Banner or Contacts) and 3rd party components.
Users
In Users, we can manage our users, user groups, etc.
System
Under System we will find all the functions we need to manage Joomla: Global Configuration, Cache, Plugins, Warnings, Install, Update, etc.
Welcome to the fourth lesson of this course “Guide to Joomla 5”.
In the Content menu, we have Articles, Categories, Fields, Media, site, and admin Modules, all the things you need to build your content.
So let's start...
Welcome to fifth lesson of this course “Guide to Joomla 5”
In today lesson you will learn to work with menus, managing menu, creating menus and setting up menus.
Welcome to 6th lesson of this course “Guide to Joomla 5”
In this lesson you will learn what are joomla templates and having different template style design for different pages on your website.
Joomla template are great way to give a professional upto dated design to your website. Both frontend and administrator has separate templates.
Welcome to seventh chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”
In this lesson you will learn about system management, which includes system information, redirects, update and user permissions, extension installation and management.
Now I will break this chapter into 5 small lessons.
Let’s start,
Welcome to eighth chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”
In this lesson, you will learn about site management, which includes user, plugins and media management respectively.
Let’s start,
Welcome to 9th chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”.
Today will be first practical, in which you will be taught how to create a simple but interactive website home page.
I assumed that you have seen all my previous videos. So you will be comfortable to understand today practical.
Let’s start,
Welcome to 10th chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”.
In today practical, I am going to teach you how to apply CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) to our home page, to look like demo mockup.
Let’s start,
Welcome to 11th chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”.
In today practical, I am going to teach you how to create a signup page in Joomla, how to allow user registration in Joomla 5, using custom fields, edit profile, setting up hcaptcha.
Let’s start,
Welcome to 12th chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”.
In today practical, I am going to teach you how to create a About page in Joomla. About page is important in a website, in which you are going to tell about you, your website, your products or services, so be clear and true to about you. You may use text as well as images, and third party social media network links as well.
So Let’s start,
Welcome to 13th chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”.
In today practical, I am going to teach you how to create a contact page in Joomla.
So Let’s start,
Welcome to 14th chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”.
In today practical, I am going to teach you how to create blog page. Joomla provide a sophisticated blog layout which is enough to make a good blog, without depending on third party extensions.
So Let’s start,
Welcome to 15th chapter of this course “Guide to Joomla”.
In today practical, I am going to teach you how to create privacy page using free online privacy page generator.
So Let’s start,
I am Abdul Waheed, a Joomla expert from Pakistan. I will teach you Joomla 5. Joomla is one of the most powerful content management systems to create simple blogs, large complex websites, and anything in between.
After taking this course, I guarantee that you'll be very comfortable installing Joomla, adding new content, customizing templates, installing extensions, and also managing existing blogs or websites.
Joomla is a CMS or content management system.
It's for managing content. So Joomla gives you a platform that you can use to share content with the world.
And it also gives you all the tools you need to do that efficiently and effortlessly.
It's an open source software, and open source means that its source code is freely available.
What’s new in Joomla 5?
Joomla 5 is Fast
Painless Content Editing
CDN Ready
Fast Loading Templates
Joomla 5 is Extendable
Scalable
Integrated SEO Tools
Multilingual Ready
Custom Fields and Data
Supported by a Vibrant Community
Joomla is secure
User Management and Permissions
State-of-the-Art Code
Multi-factor Authentication
Supported by Security Experts
Joomla 5 is Accessible
Responsive
WCAG Compliant
Built In Accessibility Tools
Joomla 5 is Yours
Your data, your layouts, your templates, your imagination—Joomla is built to be yours from the ground up.