Comments on: What should be in a Joomla! web basics course?

By: Andrew Mooers

Andrew Mooers — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:10:12 +0000

Working on a Joomla site and came in to see how much help is available. Have the template designed, loaded, hosted and have section, category, articles in place. Now need help with data base, placing modules in articles. Can figure it out with three joomla books under my belt but would nice to save time and be in a forum to bounce off each other what we have learned. What we need to figure out.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:57:20 +0000

Lynda,

There should be a clear distinction between titles that are end-user oriented and those for developers. Joomla! is both a platform and a product, and I believe the two should be treated separately, at the peril of losing focus.

By: Aryan

Aryan — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:40:16 +0000

Please provide Extension and Framework development course.

By: Jonatas Rodrigues

Jonatas Rodrigues — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:55:25 +0000

It would be very useful to publish something that teachs us how to create joomla extensions. There are great extensions available today but not enough. I wish I could learn hot to make for example a Real State full customized module for joomla as well a car store search engine with multiple fields. I guess we already have enough image galleries, and templates for news information. We need something more.

You guys are awsome

Jonatas Rodrigues
Brazil

By: Rebecca Adler

Rebecca Adler — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:40:15 +0000

When I first started with Joomla!, what I struggled most with was figuring out the “schema” for its content architecture. The way that sections and categories and articles interact to create different page views was not very well documented in the resources I consulted.

I found lynda.com’s Joomla! courses very helpful from a “how to do stuff” standpoint, but the “how stuff works” is also needed.

Thanks for your excellent work in this area and for the decision to expand the Joomla! offerings.

Rebecca Adler
lynda.com subscriber

By: Bryan Zimmerman

Bryan Zimmerman — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:23:21 +0000

Dear Lynda,

I was excited about the courses from Jen, but after watching the first one I was very dissapointed. There needs to be a series much like your Adobe courses that are geared towards the designer AND developer. I am pretty savvy with the CSS, but the rest is just something I would rather not deal with at this point in my career.

How about a Joomla for designers series that gets into the “how to’s” of placing a module within an article, or some of the “global setting” features? Another one I always seem to get stuck on is which template to customize, which I am sure Jen covered in her series, but for us right-brainers it didn’t stick.

I think the Joomla (Drupal, WordPress) courses should be broken into developers and designers, and talk more about some of the tricks or hidden features to put a site together in an efficient manner.

Keep up the great work!

Regards,
Bryan Zimmerman
lynda.com Subscriber since March 2008