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J! 2.5 WorkshopPart A & B

@ JoomlaDay Greece 2012

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About me ...

Nicholas Antimisiaris

‘nant’ on forums Athens, Greece MS EE, MS CS Telecom / CIO “Good engineers don’t

need tools, bad ones also have no use for them”

Popular social networking extension (FREE)

CBSubs paid subscriptions membership solution

Advanced / Professional add-ons and support

Templates / Hosting

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Workshop agenda Part A

A.1: Introduction – Fundamentals (5 mins)Need, Technology, License, Cost, Who, Where, HistoryFor more information see detailed online presentation

Α.2: Installation – The first steps (15 mins)Overview, Terminology, Extensions, Components, Modules, Plugins, Templates, Languages, Content, Menus, Modules, Plugins

A.3: Adding content (15 mins)Adding content, using the editor, media, read-more and pages, categorizing, adding modules and menus

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Workshop Agenda Part B

B.1: Social networking solution (15 mins)Community Builder, uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJiveFor more information see detailed online presentation

B.2: Paid SubscriptionMembership CBSubs (15 mins)Protecting your Joomla content

B.3: Next steps - Conclusions

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A.1: Fundamentals What is Joomla?

Need, CMS, Technology, Cost, License, Who, History

More information and detailed presentation can be found online:http://www.slideshare.net/cbteam/jd-greece2012joomlacommunityabc

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A2: Installation and first steps Localhost environment:

MAMP for MACOS WAMP for Windows LAMP for Linux XAMP for Windows, MACOS, LINUX

See references for relevant URL addresses

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A2: Installing Joomla Installing the Joomla 2.5.4 package on our

localhost and inspecting

More information and details can be found:joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books/18271-joomla-25-quick-start

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More A2: First impressions and

concepts Frontend, backend Components, modules, plugins, templates,

languages Template positions (?tp=1) Modules vs module instances Content and menus Registration form and login module

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A3: Adding content Creating a featured article Using the editor, bold, header, italic, linking Read-more links, page-breaks Adding images to article, resizing image Creating menu item to single article Creating menu item to category blog Using the Joomla custom HTML module

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Part B: Getting Social and commercial Vanilla Joomla is not very social:

No profiles No extra data during registration process No Approval workflow No user interaction (messaging, connecting, etc.) No membership lists No membership empowering

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B1: CB, uddeIM, Kunena, GroupJive Install and configure CB:

www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books/18265-community-builder-quick-start

Install and configure uddeIM:www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books/18269-uddeim-installation-and-cb-configuration-quick-start

Install and configure Kunena:www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books/18281-kunena-and-cb-quick-start

Install and configure GroupJivewww.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books/18268-community-builder-groupjive-quick-start

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More B1: Social networking

overview Enhanced registration form (more fields) Approval workflow User profiles (avatar, extra fields, tabs,

integrations) User lists (users can search others) Users can connect to other users Users can visit others and post on their profile Users can send messages to each other Users can discuss on forums Users can create common interest groups and:

Share photos, videos, files Have private discussions and schedule events

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B2: CBSubs for membership Membership plans

Free lifetime Calendar year 15 first year 10 each year after

Protect content requiring subscription to view Require subscription to access read-more of

tutorials Keep track of members on frontend and backend

Change value of CB field and use it to filter lists CB User Manager integration

Send members personalized mass emails Show/hide CB Tabs/Fields based on subscription of

owner/viewer

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B3: Next steps Get your XAMP,MAMP,WAMP,LAMP layer Experiment locally Check out Free references Get a book! Visit the JED, the J! Forums and the J! Magazine

sites Get organized – Greek Joomla User Groups Help each-other, learn from others experiences Joomla is very popular in Greece and Greeks are very popular in Joomla

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References PHP: http://www.php.net/ MYSQL: http://www.mysql.com/ APACHE: http://httpd.apache.org/ XAMP: www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html MAMP: www.mamp.info/en/index.html WAMP: www.wampserver.com/en/ LAMP: depends on Linux version – most have it

preinstalled Joomla: www.joomla.org JED: extensions.joomla.org J! Forums: http://forum.joomla.org/ J! Magazine:

http://magazine.joomla.org/authors/itemlist/user/65-Nicholas-G-Antimisiaris

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More references Joomla documentation: http://docs.joomla.org/ Joomla 2.5 Essential Training (lynda.com)

http://www.lynda.com/Joomla-tutorials/Joomla-Essential-Training/95699-2.html

JOOMLA! For beginners guide 2012http://www.danconia.com/joomla-for-beginners-guide-2012.html

Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide:http://cocoate.com/2012/02/joomla-25-beginners-guide

Joomla! Developers guide:http://cocoate.com/sites/cocoate.com/files/private/jdev.pdf

Translations:http://community.joomla.org/translations.html

Multi-language in Joomla:ostraining.com/blog/joomla/multi-language-sites-in-joomla-17/

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and more references Slides will be shared here:

www.slideshare.net/cbteam/presentations Community Builder

www.joomlapolis.com/community-builder uddeIM

www.slabihoud.de/software/id4001.htm Kunena

www.kunena.org GroupJive

www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/groupjive CBSubs

www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/cbsubs Picture-book tutorials

www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/111-picture-books

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Extensions mentioned

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Ευχαριστώ All the slides can be found at:

http://www.slideshare.net/cbteam/presentations