Joomla/C2/Overview-of-Joomla/English-timed
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Overview of Joomla. |
| 00:05 | In this tutorial, we will learn about: the concept of Content Management Systems or CMS in short, |
| 00:13 | Joomla as a CMS, software and hardware requirements for running Joomla. |
| 00:19 | We will also learn about the: operating System and Joomla version to be used |
| 00:25 | and overview of the key features that will be demonstrated in the Joomla series. |
| 00:31 | Learner of this tutorial should know how to browse a website. |
| 00:36 | Let us first understand what Content Management System or CMS is. |
| 00:41 | A CMS is a software, used to manage the content of a website. |
| 00:46 | It keeps track of every piece of content on the website. |
| 00:50 | It allows one to create, modify and remove content from a website without knowing programming skills. |
| 00:58 | Why is Joomla a popular CMS? |
| 01:01 | Joomla is easy to install and use. |
| 01:04 | It supports multiple language websites. |
| 01:07 | There are many predefined ready-to-use Joomla templates available online |
| 01:13 | And Joomla has many extensions that allow additional features to be installed easily. |
| 01:20 | Let us see what kind of websites use Joomla as the base. |
| 01:25 | A corporate website like this, |
| 01:28 | An educational one like Harvard University website, |
| 01:32 | Websites of media houses, we have Business Today website here. |
| 01:37 | A Greek E-commerce website like this, personal websites like these and many more… |
| 01:44 | Joomla provides a list of featured websites at the following URL: http://community.joomla.org/showcase/sites.html |
| 01:57 | Here you will find the popular Joomla websites in various categories. |
| 02:02 | To install Joomla, we need: a web-server like Apache or IIS, |
| 02:08 | a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL and PHP |
| 02:15 | At the time of making of this tutorial, Joomla 3.4.1 is the latest version. |
| 02:22 | The Joomla developer community keeps releasing newer versions with added features. |
| 02:28 | It is always recommended to work with the latest stable version that is available. |
| 02:34 | Joomla 3.4.1 requires the following:
Apache 2.x plus or IIS 7 + MySQL 5.0.4 + and PHP 5.2.4 plus |
| 02:50 | For this series, we have used the following:
Ubuntu Linux OS 14.04 and Apache, MySQL and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.5.19 |
| 03:04 | Now, let me list out a few of the key features covered in this series. |
| 03:09 | For ease of navigation, I have already opened the tutorials in multiple tabs on my browser. |
| 03:16 | The tutorial Installing Joomla on a localhost explains how to - install Joomla on a Linux machine and cross-check the correctness of your installation. |
| 03:27 | Let’s have a look. |
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| 03:40 | Common mistakes and uninstalling Joomla tutorial explains the common mistakes that people make during the installation process and the steps to uninstall Joomla. |
| 03:51 | Let’s have a look. |
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| 04:00 | Creating Articles in Joomla tutorial -explains how to create articles and manage articles using the Article Manager page. |
| 04:10 | Here is a glimpse. |
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| 04:20 | Article Options tutorial - explains various options such as Status, Filters, Global Options, etc. |
| 04:28 | Let me run through this tutorial. |
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| 04:41 | The next tutorial in this series is Formatting Articles in Joomla. |
| 04:46 | In this tutorial, we will learn about formatting options like - WYSISYG, also pronounced as wiz-ee-wig Article Editor in Joomla, |
| 04:57 | styling the article text, Inserting lists, page-breaks and Read More link, etc. |
| 05:04 | Here is a glimpse of this tutorial. |
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| 05:17 | Categories in Joomla tutorial will help us to understand how to group articles into different categories, |
| 05:25 | and create sub-categories within categories. |
| 05:28 | Let’s have a look at this tutorial. |
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| 05:42 | Menus in Joomla tutorial will help us to understand - how to create menus and sub-menus and how to link articles under them. |
| 05:51 | Let us continue with this tutorial. |
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| 06:04 | There will be many more tutorials in this series, in the future. |
| 06:08 | These will reveal us a few advanced features that are available in Joomla CMS. |
| 06:14 | For now, let us summarize. |
| 06:17 | In this tutorial, we have learnt: Content Management System, Joomla as a CMS, software and hardware requirements for the execution of Joomla. |
| 06:29 | We also learnt about the OS and Joomla version that would be used for this series. |
| 06:35 | We took an overview of the key features those will be demonstrated in the Joomla series. |
| 06:41 | The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
Please download and watch it. |
| 06:48 | The Spoken Tutorial project team conducts workshops and gives certificates on passing online tests. For more details, please write to us. |
| 06:58 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on this mission is available at the link shown. |
| 07:09 | This is Priyanka, signing off. Thank you for joining. |
