course details.pdf - Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH
AND ALLIED SCIENCES
DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Short Course on Website Development Using
Joomla Contents Management System
INTRODUCTION
T
he Directorate of Information and
Communication Technology (DICT), is
announcing a short course on Website
Development and Management using Joomla
Content Management System. Participants will
be taken step-by-step through the process of
creating an account, connecting to the host
system, uploading the Joomla setup files and
customizing and publishing the website.
AIM
The purpose of the course is to enable
participants design, develop and manage an
interactive website using free Content
Management System (CMS) - Joomla!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course participants shall be able
to:
Explain the basic concepts on website
design, development and management
Explain and differentiate between static
and dynamic websites, and web
development techniques
Identify different technologies used for
website design and development
Collect and prepare website
requirements specification
Install and prepare all the necessary
open source tools for website
development
Install Joomla Content Management
System (CMS) in a local machine and in
a web server environment
Create the website architecture using the
Joomla CMS
Install and customize Joomla CMS
templates
Manage contents in terms creating and
updating existing ones
Choose and register a domain name for a
website
Publish the website to the internet
ELIGIBILITY - Who Can Attend
The Joomla course is for those who want to
acquire necessary skills to design, develop and
manage websites, especially web contents
without having in-depth website programming
skills.
Beneficiary of the course includes individuals
from both public as well as private sectors.
Applicants should be proficient in English, and
should have basic experience with computer
operating systems for file management, an ability
to navigate that environment using a mouse and
keyboard, and experience using a web browser
program (Internet Explorer or Firefox). Basic
skills on HTML will be an added advantage.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology will involve lectures,
presentations, and intensive hands-on exercises.
Practical sessions will be tailored in such a way
that participants will be able to develop
fundamental web development and management
competences.
Each participant will have access to a website of
their own for customization of templates and
modules, modification of graphics and for
creating and publishing.
COURSE DURATION
The course duration is 2 weeks, starting from
26th August, 2013 to 6 th September, 2013.
Classes will be conducted from Monday to Friday
for two hours starting from 14:00pm to 16:00pm
at Computer Training Laboratory, MUHAS
Campus.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
Application forms can be collected from the
Director’s Office, Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) – MUHAS or
it can be downloaded from the website.
The deadline for receiving applications for this
batch is 21 th August 2013 and candidates will be
notified by 23 th
registration).
August 2013 (Deadline for
COURSE FEES
The course fees is Three Hundred Thousands
Tanzania Shillings (TSH 300,000/=) per
participant. All Payments should be done in full
and should be paid at least one week before the
course starts.
You can pay directly to MUHAS Accounts
Department and submit a copy of the receipt to
the Director’s office (ICT) or through the
National Micro-Finance Bank (NMB), Muhimbili
Branch, MUHAS Bank Account Number:
20901100002 and submit your original bank
deposit slip to Accounts Office and a copy to the
ICT Director’s Office for registration.
CERTIFICATES
Upon satisfactory completion of the course
requirements and a minimum of 90% attendance,
participants will be issued with Certificate of
Completion.
CONTACTS
Course Coordinator
Directorate of ICT - MUHAS
P.O.Box 65001
Dar es Salaam.
Tel: 0222152271
Mobile: 0714 034829
Email: dict@muhas.ac.tz
Website: www.muhas.ac.tz

COURSE TOPICS
Introduction
Definition of terms
• Web, Wep page, Website
• Web technologies
• Types of websites
What is a content management system
(CMS)
Common CMS
Joomla content management system
architecture.
Setting up the environment
Installation of Wamp/ xampp
Architecture of Wamp/ xampp
Installing joomla
Basic understanding of HTML and CSS
Building the structure with HTML.
Styling the pages with CSS
Customization and Management of JOOMLA
Website
Taking the website temporarily offline
Changing the appearance of your site
Giving the Front Page a different style
from other pages
Changing the style according to article
section or category
Logging in or out of the Administrator
back-end
Making your site Search Engine Friendly
Entering search engine meta-data
Moving the site among directories/subdirectories
Managing Content
Understanding sections, categories and
articles
Creating a section and category hierarchy
Scheduling an Article to be available only
between certain dates
Restricting access to an Article
Restricting access to "read more"
Restricting access to a Section
Restricting access to a Category
Removing email, print or PDF icons from
all Articles
Removing author name, creation date or
update date from all Articles
Moving an Article to the archive
Deleting an Article
Managing Articles
Adding a new article
Adding an image to an article
Adding a menu item which points to an
Article
Managing the front page
Editing an Article
Inserting a heading into an Article
Inserting a list into an Article
Inserting a table into an Article
Modifying a table in an Article
Inserting a link to another Article or
content page into an Article
Inserting a link to another website into an
Article
Removing a link from an Article
Splitting an Article into an introduction
with a link to read more
Removing email, print or PDF icons from
an Article
Removing author name, creation date or
update date from an Article
Previewing an Article
Splitting a long Article into multiple linked
pages
Managing Users
Setting user registration policy
Changing user registration settings
Disabling user registration
Allowing only manual user registration
Allowing user registration
Restricting user access to resources
Enabling user's registration approval by
admins
Customising the Login Form module
Changing the Login Form module settings
Enabling the Login Form module
Assigning the Login Form module to
selected web pages
Customising the information shown in the
Login Form module
Adding a new user
Changing user groups
Resetting a user password
Listing a user on a contacts page
Dealing with a problem user
Sending an email to a user
Sending an email to a group of users
Sending a private message to a user
Reading a private message from a user
Managing Menus
Adding a new menu
Adding a new menu item
Changing the order of items in a menu
Moving a menu to a different position
Restricting access to a Menu
Restricting access to a Menu Item
Creating a submenu
Templates
Changing templates
Downloading templates
Installing templates
Customization of Templates
Using Firebud and colorzilla add ons to
edit Templates
Website Publishing
Choosing Domain Name for your website
Domain Registration
Server configuration and web publishing
Website Maintenace