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Forest Linden is the director of Joomlashack University. He lives and breathes Joomla and web technology 6 days a week (i.e., he loves this stuff). He’s been teaching people how to use Joomla for the last 3 years and is known for his comprehensive, clear style of instruction. For the last 8 years, he’s been involved in consulting, developing, and teaching in online learning environments.
This course is a distillation of years of combined expert experience with Joomla in an easy-to-understand format.
The easiest, fastest way to learn Joomla. Period.We'll tell you something right up front - Joomla isn't the easiest software to learn by trying to teach yourself. We know, because that's how we learned about Joomla: long and sometimes frustrating hours spent figuring out how everything fit together. Back then, we longed for a super easy tutorial course that would quickly help us learn Joomla; an easy-to-use course led by a knowledgeable expert. The kind of learning course we wanted simply didn't exist, so we decided to create it ourselves: an online, interactive multimedia tutorial course designed specifically for people who are new to Joomla or who may not know anything about building websites. Joomlashack UniversityOur beginner and intermediate courses are the first of many to be offered through our online training site, Joomlashack University. If you want to build successful Joomla websites, here's why investing in a subscription to Joomlashack University is the best way to begin your Joomla journey!
Our beginner course is complete and we're adding new content to the existing intermediate course all the time. See a list of our current lessons and watch a sample video lesson.
Read what others are saying about Joomlashack University. If you want to skip the rest of the information on this page (we won't be offended) and just sign up, choose an option from below and sign up now! University Subscriptions:2 Month Joomla Training Membership 4 Month Joomla Training Membership 6 Month Joomla Training Membership 7 DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEEYou can relax and sign up for Joomlashack University risk-free. You'll have a full week to check things out and go through as many lessons as you like. If after that time you don't feel you're getting the kind of learning benefits you had hoped for, we'll be glad to refund you your money! Want to know more? Let us take you on a tour of the powerful benefits of being a Joomlashack University graduate. 1. You'll be able to build Joomla websites fastEven if you've never tried to create a website, you'll be able to start at step one in our beginner's course and learn everything you need to create your own Joomla powered site. As you follow our step-by-step journey, you'll end up with a live website on the internet, and, more importantly, you'll have valuable knowledge and confidence with Joomla that will help develop your successful site. We've designed the beginner course of Joomlashack University with beginners in mind (and the intermediate course picks up where the beginner course ends.) We've included everything you might need to know on your path to creating a professional Joomla website. 2. You'll save loads of timeYes, Joomla is open-source software and doesn't cost dollars, but if you try to teach yourself how to use it by fumbling through forums, you'll be spending a lot of your time trying to figure out how everything fits together...how it all functions as a whole system. We bet you value your time! We know this because that's how we learned. We'd would read a few wiki documentation articles here, a few blog posts there, a few forum posts somewhere else, and have to figure out how all of the information fit together on our own. It feels like trying to learn how to build an airplane by reading scattered articles in Wikipedia about aerospace engineering. Barrie and I know exactly what that experience is like and we've created a course that answers all those questions so that you don't have to learn Joomla in the same way. I would spend 4 or 5 hours reading through the Joomla community forums just to find one answer to a seemingly simple question. That was very frustrating, to say the least. You know that kind of crazy I-want-to-pull-my-hair-out kind of frustration that comes when a computer or a piece of software isn't working the way it should, or the way you think it should? In our courses, we'll show you exactly how to configure things properly at each step. If you were to try and figure out how to do them on your own, it would likely take hours of research cobbling together various information from different sources. The bottom line is that our courses can save you serious amounts of time, and if your time is worth money, then...well, you get the point.  "Hi all,JoomlaShack University and I are great friends. We see one another almost every day. If I need a little top-up on a technique for Joomla, K2, JomSocial… Forest Linden’s excellent video training is so thorough, easily understood and informative. I download the transcripts, print them and bind them, giving me a great ready reference. I’d recommend JoomlaShack University to beginning Joomla users and more experienced ones. You can always reinforce what you know – or think you know! Thanks JoomlaShack for great online training." Jan T Baillie - Joomlashack University Student
3. You'll save lots of moneyThere are many live options to learn Joomla, either live classes or one-on-one training. Both of those options are expensive routes to learning because of the cost of live training seminars and travel expenses. I've been offering one-on-one Joomla training for about 2 years and have had clients pay me $1,200 to learn the same exact content that you'll learn in our beginner's course. Why so expensive? In-person Joomla training is much less efficient than delivering the same knowledge online via narrated screencast videos and written tutorials with photos. Instead of having to take notes at every step, or needing to see the steps of how to do something repeated live, with an online delivery format using clear, narrated videos, you can simply rewind the video and watch a section again...as many times as you want, whenever you want. You don't need to travel anywhere to go to a workshop or get on the phone with a trainer. And unlike other online Joomla training options, in Joomlashack University you have the chance to ask questions of the teachers in our support forum. With online learning, you can access the learning materials whenever you want...whenever it works best for you. This method of online learning is much more efficient and beneficial for both learners and instructors, and therefore, we can offer this knowledge at a very affordable rate. (More on that in a minute...) 4. You'll be taught everything you need, nothing else requiredThis beginner's course covers everything you'll need to get a simple, professional, Joomla powered site up on the web quickly, which means that you won't be left having to figure out how to do things like set up a webhost account, or how to create email accounts on your server. Joomla is an amazing piece of software, but to create a website with it takes much more than just knowing how to use Joomla by itself. All of the tutorials we've seen for Joomla only show the bare basics of just using Joomla, which leaves you with big gaps of knowledge...gaps that need to be filled somehow if you're going to get a live, working Joomla powered website on the web. When you're trying to learn something new, gaps in knowledge are not fun or helpful. In the beginner's course, we take you from the very first step all the way through to the end, and in addition to teaching you the basics of using Joomla, we show you things like how to:
And our Intermediate course will take you beyond the basic skills and into learning how to greatly extend the capabilities of your Joomla site with popular Joomla extensions and useful web applications that can be used with a Joomla site. See the full list of lessons from our Beginner, Intermediate, How-To, and "Creating Content Websites" courses. 5. You'll be empowered to take full advantage of the Joomla CMSIf you have a static HTML website built for you through traditional routes, like hiring a design firm or a freelance web designer, the cost of the website doesn't end when the site is done and live. You'll probably soon have a list of small changes that you want make on the site, such as changing a few sentences here or there, or swapping out a few photos. With custom built websites like that, you would have to contact your web designer and have them make those changes for you, and they'd charge you by the hour, usually with a minimum charge no matter how small of a change you want made. My wife's first website was built like that, and she ended up spending about $1,500 a year on making those minor kinds of changes...just text and photos. A Joomla site empowers you to make those changes much more easily, but you can take those benefits several steps further if you take a little time to learn more than just how to change text and photos on your site. You might want to add a box on your homepage to call attention to a special offering, or create 5 new pages for your site so you can tell people about new aspects of your business. Rather than calling that designer to make the changes for you, our courses will empower you to take advantage of the easy editing and powerful features of Joomla. 6. You'll get top-notch help when you need itSo many times as I was pulling my hair trying to learn how to build a website with Joomla, I just wanted a place where I could ask an expert a simple question and get a clear, knowledgeable answer that worked. I would post questions in the main Joomla community forums, but many times, the responses I would get would be from other beginners trying to figure out the same thing as me. In our opinion, being able to ask questions about the things you're trying to learn (and get clear answers from experts) is a basic, fundamental necessity to any successful learning process. As a member of Joomlashack University, you'll be able to do that in each of our courses. If you get stuck somewhere, or if something isn't quite making sense, just ask us about it in the private forums for the course and we'll be there to help you out. 7. You'll be getting the big pictureWe know that most people don't want to learn Joomla just to learn Joomla. You want to learn Joomla so you can put something out to the world that's important to you. In other words, you want to do something with Joomla. It could be a website for your business or private practice, or it could be a site for your non-profit organization, or maybe you want to start building Joomla sites for a living. Whatever your ultimate goal is with Joomla, learning how to use it is a means to reach those ends, and we're here to support you in your learning process so you can reach your ultimate goal. So as teachers, we don't get lost in the technology, but see this as an opportunity to help you reach your larger goals...the thing you want to do with a Joomla. 8. You'll be getting the best deal around to learn JoomlaThe Beginner and Intermediate courses are the first of many courses in Joomlashack University. (And, as I mentioned earlier, the Intermediate course is still in development.) There will eventually be more advanced courses covering a variety of topics, and not all of them will be directly about how to use Joomla. We've got some powerful courses in development, the likes of which haven't been seen before in the Joomla world. Want to see the latest list of courses and lessons available to you, or watch a sample video lesson? Check out our curriculum! 9. You'll learn from the best Joomla TeachersJoomlashack University is more than a one-way series of videos and tutorials. We're a living, breathing, teaching institution with some of the Joomlaverse's best-known and talented educators ready to interact and answer your questions!
This course is a distillation of years of combined expert experience with Joomla in an easy to understand format. Ready to join?Here's what you'll be getting if you sign up today for as low as $72:
If you'd like to learn how to build successful sites with Joomla the easy way, sign up now. We look forward to seeing you in the course! Best wishes, ~Forest Linden and Barrie North University Subscriptions:2 Month Joomla Training Membership 4 Month Joomla Training Membership 6 Month Joomla Training Membership What are others saying about the course?
University Subscriptions:2 Month Joomla Training Membership 4 Month Joomla Training Membership 6 Month Joomla Training Membership Join the easiest and fastest way to learn Joomla right now Welcome to Joomlashack University! Please use the navigation on the left to find your way around the course. There are links to the beginner course homepage and our resources and forums. Please head over to the Networking forum and introduce yourself! If you have a twitter account, give us a shoutout that you just joined up, we'd certainly appreciated it! Join the Joomlashack Developer Club for $100 off!
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"The well known Joomla experts at Joomlashack proved once again to be a great resource to get you up to speed with Joomla and keep you there. With Joomlashack University they help you to become a real Joomla Graduate. Joomlashack University provides you with a growing number of crystal clear tutorials, both written and video. All users, either beginner or experienced, will find these step by step tutorials easy to use, very well organized and crystal clear.
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"If you are just starting with Joomla, and you want to have an easy start, JoomlaShack university is a great tool that will get you going in no time."
"Thanks Forest and Barrie! I have been wanting to build a joomla website for my husband’s business for a long time, but it seemed so complicated that I just kept putting it off. Your course is showing me that I was right and wrong. It is, in fact, a very complicated process to build my own joomla site… HOWEVER, the way you have laid out the course with such amazing clarity in the videos and written tutorials is making the whole process seem pretty simple – and actually quite fun!"
"Even though I have been using Joomla for a while and have even built some sites already (and I have even attended other training events in person), I have to say that Joomlashack University is the best so far. There were many things I had already done but there were other things that the videos showed me that I had never seen or didn’t understand. Having access to the videos is priceless, I’ve watched them all several times and they are always nearby for quick reference. I’m thrilled that I was able to get in on the “ground floor” and plan on staying a member for a long time. Thanks, this resource is great!"
"If you need a running start for managing your own Joomla website, JoomlaShack University will get you there fast. Simple and easy to watch videos make learning Joomla exciting and fun!"
