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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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Joomla Training Pays Off
When someone invests in a day or two of training - on anything... they hope for a return that at least pays for itself. We've done a lot of training for people who are learning Joomla - in Cincinnati, Toronto, Denver, Atlanta, New York, and Louisville - and online training at OSTraining.com - almost a thousand people. Its a lot of fun - and people have been very kind in their responses.
One of the groups that we've trained is Towne Properties - based in Cincinnati, OH. They recently wrote an article for Technology First - a regional newsletter - about their experience with Joomla. Here's an excerpt:
When I first arrived at Towne almost 3 years ago, we had a collection of apartment websites, corporate pages and a few pages for our Condo Associations. We also had “rogue” web projects happening since there was no cohesive strategy. Towne was spending in excess of $100,000 on websites and web support. We were trying to use Yardi’s new web solution as a platform for our websites, but for a variety of reasons this was not a good solution for us. Several other Towne businesses had signed contracts with outside firms to deliver websites. There was no cohesive strategy for creating websites, maintaining content or even registering websites. I found myself being drawn into arguments defending my database vendor even though their offering was limited. There had to be a better answer to this web soup that mired us....
Open Source for an enterprise-wide web solution. Really? The most important difference between Open Source software and commercial software sold by vendors is that Open Source software is published under licenses that ensure that the source code is available to everyone to inspect, change, download, and explore as they wish. This is the essential meaning of open source: the source code--the language in which the software is written and the key to understanding how the software works--can be obtained and improved by anyone with the right skills. In this case, we were able to obtain a fully functioning version of Joomla! FREE.
When Bill sent this article over - he attached this to his email... "Frankly, I should have given you credit as well as the training went a long way to getting us up and running. We are looking to save in excess of $80,000/year using this solution."
We were very pleased to help Towne Properties get off the ground. They came to us after their "proof of concept" - and we've trained every one of their staff in Joomla - both at the beginner and advanced levels.
You can read the full article here.
Our partnership with OSTraining.com (Steve Burge) is a solid one. I don't know of another training program like it. Either live or online - participants get fantastic forum support and a lot of timely help - We highly recommend OSTraining.com for training in Joomla, Drupal and WordPress.
If you're looking for an advanced, customizable, robust solution for your website - Joomla is a great choice. Not only can we set that up - but we'll make sure you know how to use it. Talk to us!
