Joomla/C2/Overview-of-Joomla/English-timed
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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. |
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07:09 | This is Priyanka, signing off. Thank you for joining. |