Short course in Professional web development using Joomla and WordPress

Short course in Professional web development using Joomla and WordPress – The Open University of Sri Lanka

Developing a fully dynamic website is a complex and time taking process. It requires deep knowledge and experience in HTML, CSS, Client/server-side scripting language, Database Management, etc. In addition to time and cost. But, now clients & companies want rapid development to reduce man time and cost. So how is it possible? Open Source CMS is there to solve this. Joomla and WordPress which are the most popular PHP CMS today, provide great management of websites with less effort. Using CMS (Content Management System) one can manage the whole website through the administrator panel.

The first sessions in this course are allocated to build up your knowledge in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP(up to modification themes/plugins), MySQL(introduction), Apache/nginx web server to make you ready to work with CMS. You can unlock the limitations of the WordPress backend with knowledge of these fundamental web technologies

In the next sessions, you will learn:

How to develop/design various types of websites with WordPress. Examples: blogging, News magazine, eCommerce, membership, classified/directory, multilingual, eLearning, etc
Page builder plugins(Elementor, Divi, etc)
Advanced Custom Post/ Advanced Custom Field
SEO, web traffic analysis, web security
Backup and migration
Fundamental of computer networking, IP Address, DNS, DHCP, various web hosting solutions
Instruction to Joomla CMS

At the end of this course, you are expected to be a full-stack CMS web developer.