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The single most important aspect of our service goal is to provide the very best assistance, training and products in the industry. We want to be your long term service provider and want to build a solid business relationship with our clients. Our business modal functions well  when potential customers select Joomla Connections because they want quality at affordable pricing as well as want a partnership in the success of their computing needs.  Part of that commitment includes education.

Joomla  Connections currently offers classroom training to its website customers.  The training is structure to accommodate the client, meaning we normally provide 3 to 4 hour sessions for up to 4 students at the customers location. A complete syllabus has been developed with a progression of learning levels that in total will take 21 hours. This training is all encompassing and goes beyond just the focus of Joomla CMS.

We begin with the very basics of Web Content Management Systems by explaining the architecture of such systems. We gradually bring the students through the creation, editing and deleting of content ; creation of menus ; use of modules and various extensions that will be used by the customer. All training is conducted by a instructor that has over 15 years of teaching at the College level.

Sessions are focused yet paced to allow students to ask questions and receive detailed and clear answers. Each students has a computer and access to a Joomla CMS learning site. This Website remains available during the entire training period and eventually becomes the customers "live" Website. In addition to the training session, our staff are available via our Website support system to answer all your questions. We also have a knowledge base section on our website that is available and telephone support to all our clients at no additional cost.

Our goal as your Website provider is to provide as much information/learning as you feel is necessary for the success of your Internet site. As part of your training, we also include training on Web standards and practice. This, we feel is critical to the overall professional appearance and function of your site.
We also give basic instruction of security issues as well as standard practice to avoid hacking, etc...

If you are interested in  Joomla CMS training session for your staff and not our hosting/maintenance and support package, please contact us as well. This training can be customized to your requirements. Such training is available for a minimum of 4 hour sessions and can be scheduled at your location.
 

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    Joomla is Open Source software under the GPL License and non-proprietary. This means you own your Web site completely and are not tied to any company. We recommend Joomla CMS for this reason. Joomla Connections will assist you in the planning and implementation of your site including migrated from traditional html sites. We provide one-on-one training for your staff with an extensive training manual and years of teaching experience. The goal of our Company is to provide professional Joomla installations which provide Web 2.0 functionality, security and full back-up protection. Make your Website an interactive destination on the Internet and not just an archive of outdated information about your organization!

Joomla Connections uses the award winning open source software Joomla! which has an estimated user base of 30 million, being open source has a number of distinct advantages as opposed to proprietary software.

First there is the cost perspective, or should we say no cost perspective as Joomla! is free. Secondly with such a large user base there are thousands of components that can be used for your organization. As with Joomla! CMS the majority of these modules are free of charge as well.

Your website will be Search Engine Friendly and Optimezed for the Net.

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Joomla Connections Websites allow you to create and maintain a site faster and easier than ever before. Creating or editing information takes just minutes and a "Connections" site let's your organization use as many people to maintain its information keeping the site current. Our Web site solution of choice is Joomla Content Management System (CMS). It is widely used throughout the world by small and large Corporations, non-profits and individuals. Highly customizable yet easy to add, edit and delete content.

Joomla CMS Features:

Automate publishing by time stamping with day and time that you would like content to appear and disappear.

WYSIWYG Editor - "What You See Is What You Get" editing allows you to update a web page just like typing in a word processor. You do not know what HTML means? You do not need to know but if you prefer HTML editing you can turn the WYSIWYG editor "off".

Upload and organize your images, flash files, real-times files right from within the editor. Drag and re size images just like in a word processor.

Your Choice of Editors -- No editor, TinyMCE, JCE and more...Template-controlled appearance of your site. Just click and an installed template and change the look and feel of your site in an instant.

Multiple levels of users - let customers become registered users while your staff can be authors, editors, publishers and administrators. All with varied levels of permissions.

Edit the site from the Front-end  or an administrative end.No need to use Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver or any other Web Development Software.

Built in Events Calendars - A calender feature that includes a mini-calendar, upcoming events and full sized calendar. Create categories of events and provide levels of access to specific categories. Link the event to a registration module so that your customers can register for a specific event electronically.

Photo Galleries - Just upload your images in newly created gallery folders have a fantastic interface to view images. The pictures are automatically resized and optimized for web use. Thumbnail galleries and album navigation are created automatically.

Forms - Create electronic versions of your paper forms.  No HTML needed. Send the results of your forms to specific staff members for processing.

Have a document repository to share files with your staff and customers. Post "PDF" files as well as any file format including Microsoft formats and even executable files if you wish. Access can be set for these files based on the user permission.

Provide subscriptions to as many newsletters as you wish - Do Mass Mailing to sponsors or for fund raising. Let your customers know about new products etc...

Create drafts - create your content but save it as unpublished. After you proof read it or have another staff member approve the content, then publish it instantly.

Comprehensive statistics of you Website with graphs.

Create an Intranet within you Website just for staff. Have special menus just for staff that only appear on the screen after that person log in to the site.

Make your Website an interactive destination. Give your users a reason to visit your Internet Office.Complete Media Support - FlashTM, MP3s, Windows media files®, and more.

CSS Support - Support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

RSS Feeds - Allow parents and community members to keep track of the latest website updates using RSS.

Blogs - Working on a long-term project, allow the team members to keep a running account using a blog.

Community or Business Directory - Build a Directory of Community Organizations, Artists, or Business. Let these organizations enter their own content and manage it with your approval.

Provide Google Maps from within your content.

Provide Social Bookmarking for specific content.Offer Commenting on content.