Dallas / Fort Worth Area
Meeting Agenda
Date: January 22, 2008 Location: Café Brazil - Plano Prior to 7:00 pm General Networking / Order Food Meeting begins 7:00 pm 1. Introduce Yourself What is your name? What do you do? How long have you used Joomla? What do you hope to gain from these meetings? Do you have any preferences for future meetings and times?
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Discussion Points / Topic for the Day Experienced developer showcase: Show / Discuss one of your production ready sites. What extensions did you use? What obstacles did you face? Discussion: Meeting format / Group Direction – Is this working for you? Do we need to change anything? What? Do we need refine our purpose as a group? Discussion: Updates on releases / 1.5 compatibility Video and Joomla: Options and extensions Short Break (Order food, network, restroom break) Q&A / Lab / Discussions Wrap Up Next Meeting Planning Everyone pays for their food and drink Network / Exchange information
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Who Are We?
Joomla!Dallas is a North Texas mentoring user group that got started as a Meetup.com Group. We are helping each other learn to leverage a content management system to make sophisticated yet easily maintainable web-sites for little investment. We are focusing on a particular open source content management system (Joomla!) that is available for free. Joomla! is one of the more popular open source content management systems available. Using this system can help you build and maintain your website more quickly and easily with more features than you may have thought possible. Our meetings feature a workshop session addressing a few aspects of the system where we learn from each other how to build, improve, and maintain full-featured sites. For this reason, we try to meet in Dallas / Fort Worth locations that have WiFi so that members who own laptops can bring them for a more interactive session. Sometimes we focus on a particular aspect, extension, application or topic; while, at other times, we focus on specific issues or questions that our members bring to the meeting. To RSVP for meetings and receive meeting reminders, sign up for the Meetup.com group. ALL ARE WELCOME, whether you are an experienced developer or someone wanting to set up your first website. We're here to learn together and share.
Who Can Benefit?
Do-It-Yourselfers Subscription Community Websites eCommerce Non-Profits Authors & eBook Sales eZine Publishers Doctors, Lawyers, Attorneys, Chiropractors, Real Estate Brokers And Many More
A content management system makes it possible for you or your administrative staff to update content as often as you like without learning HTML or complicated coding. You can develop the site yourself or work with fellow Joomla! User Group member to do it for you. (Please check as members may charge fees for development work.)
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How Do I Find Out More?
Attend our meetings. Lots of information is exchanged and we sometimes provide handouts with basic tutorials or other information. Browse our website (http://www.joomladallas.org ). We will be populating it with information and tutorials. Send us an email. Visit the Joomla! Website (http://www.joomla.org ) for more information about Joomla! and related news. For information about extensions and addons, visit http://extensions.joomla.org .
How Do I Get Started?
To get started, you will need to install Joomla on your own domain and host. If you just want a temporary sandbox site to play around with Joomla! to see if it meets your needs, we can set one up on our host. Eventually, however, you will want to get your own domain name and host.
Additional Information
Joomla Tutorials
Some members have had questions about courses and online tutorials for Joomla! While we hope to be able to offer our own tutorials and documentation in the future, here are some other helpful sites in the Joomla community: (If you come across others that you find valuable, please let us know.)
http://www.joomlavtc.com/ http://joomlatrainingcenter.com/ http://www.eyezberg.com/Joomla-CMS.html http://www.joomlatutorials.com/ http://www.salyris.com/joomla_tutorial_center.html http://needforcontent.com/tutorials/joomla-tutorials http://www.netshinesoftware.com/joomla/joomla-tutorial.html http://www.howtojoomla.net
Templates
Templates determine the overall look and feel of your Joomla! site. You can create your own, use an existing template as is, or modify an existing template. In an effort to make your search for the perfect template easier, we are listing some sites where Joomla templates can be found:
RocketThemes (mostly commercial but some free): http://www.rockethemes.com TemplatePlazza (mostly commercial): http://www.templateplazza.com JoomlArt (mostly commercial): http://www.joomlart.com Themesbase (free): http://www.themesbase.com/?category=Joomla Joomla24 (free): http://www.joomla24.com/ Siteground Templates (free): http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla-templates.htm OSSkins (free): http://www.osskins.com/main/category/joomla-mambo/ Joomla-Themes (combination): http://www.joomla-themes.co.uk/ Joomla-Templates (combination): http://www.joomla-templates.com/ And many more Joomla! User Group Meeting: February 11, 2008
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