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Its been a great year! Thank you to all of our clients and friends.
Some highlights:
- We've produced over 230 online training videos for OSTraining.com
- We've been in the UK, Washington DC, Chicago, Austin, Indianapolis, Boston and more... teaching Joomla and Drupal to people from Pfizer to MIT
- We've launched a number of sites in 2011
- Rod is blogging again! (http://www.rodmartin.net)
May you have a blessed 2012!
We've Released Three New Joomla 1.6 Videos - Including ACL
It's January 10, 2011. Joomla 1.6 Stable should be released sometime before 11:59pm Hawaiian time today!
In preparation for that, we've put together 3 videos that will provide a great overview of what you'll need to know about administering a Joomla 1.6 site.
- Part 1 - The Site, Users and Menu Management Menus (9:52)
- Part 2 - The Articles, Components, Extensions and Help Menus (15:29)
- Joomla 1.6 Access Control Lists (26:31)
How the web is built - Static html vs the CMS
The folks over at W3Techs.com have released an interesting study on the distribution of web development styles.
A whopping 76% of websites are still not using a popular CMS. This doesn't necessarily mean that they are static sites... many could be dynamic - using PHP or another tool... but only 24% are using a recognizable content management system like Joomla or WordPress.
OSTraining Offers FREE Classes to Schools
This is a pretty cool!
Here's part of their announcement:
That landmark coincided with the holiday season so we celebrated by giving back: we held a free class for 16 non-profit organizations in Atlanta.
Fast forward almost a year and last week we hit another milestone: 200 live classes! Those Joomla and Drupal classes were held all across North America and England, from Los Angeles to London and from Vancouver to Miami.
This year's landmark also coincided with the holiday season and so we've decided to give back again, only bigger and better:
We're Featured!
One of the things we're passionate about is training. Yes, we're an internet marketing/web design company... but Rod loves to teach. He's just finished his 115th online training video for OSTraining.com. The topic of this video was JCalPro - a calendar component for Joomla (view the tutorials).
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50 Session Joomla Beginner Video Course Now Online
Done! For the past three months, we've been working with OSTraining.com to create an online course for Joomla beginners.
We're pretty excited about the concept. For a low fee, a subscriber can watch the videos over and over again, do a prescribed set of learning activities, and enjoy 6 months of support in the forums.
The video portions were shot on a white screen (I'm a Mac guy - had to try the look from the commercials...) which provides incredible flexibility for the putting the video anywhere on the final video. [Sidenote: We built the entire studio for less than $400 - Check out http://www.videopia.org/index.php/watch/learn-mainmenu-231/103-tutorial-video-001.html]
The video portions were edited in Final Cut and exported as animations (to provide the transparent background) and brought into Screenflow (an amazing piece of software for $99) - which did all the heavy lifting with the actual tutorials.
Any "presentation" slides were done in Keynote and captured using Screenflow.
Here's a sample of one of the videos...
For more information - head over to http://www.ostraining.com.
