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Joomla Seminar and Demo, Buendia, Makati, November 2010

Joomla Seminar and Demo, Buendia, Makati, November 2010

Attend a Drupal and Joomla seminar and training (back to back seminars) on November 14, at Makati. Follow this link for full details www.jeromeesperanza.com, or visit TPCEvents.org for details.

Seminar outline:

System Requirements

Localhost and Remote Host Installations

Obtaining Joomla

Build versions and SVN

Installation

Configuration file

Database and SQL data

Uploading the files to the Web server

Frontend management

Backend management

Joomla Extensions (Components, Modules, and Plugins)

Joomla Templates

Known Issues & Error Handling

configuration.php file not writable

Register Globals is set to on – Shared Hosting Problem

.htaccess

Permissions / CHMOD

FTP Layering

php.ini

Security

Joomla Backup and Restoration

Joomla Community and Support

Drupal Seminar and Demo, Buendia, Makati, November 2010

Drupal Seminar and Demo, Buendia, Makati, November 2010

Attend a Drupal and Joomla seminar and training (back to back seminars) on November 14, at Makati. Follow this link for full details www.jeromeesperanza.com, or visit TPCEvents.org for details.

Seminar outline:

Why use Drupal

Drupal applications

Installation

Drupal automatic installation instructions through Fantastico

Pre-loaded and bundled Drupal installers

Drupal manual installation

Frontend Management

Backend Management

Drupal Taxonomy

Drupal Modules

Drupal Themes

User Management

Access control in Drupal

Search Engine Friendly URLs

Backup and Restoration

Upgrading Drupal versions and builds

Drupal Community and Support

E-Cmmerce, Blogging, and Shopping Carts (Software and CMS)

Online Business and E-Commerce (PM Session)

Date: October 3, 2010 - Sunday | Time: 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Speaker: Jerome Esperanza

REGISTER HERE: http://www.tpcevents.org To Confirm Please PM or CALL:PM: Justice_league | YM: Justice_league_tpc | CP#: 09174362660
Venue: PDTF Function Room, 3rd Floor, PDAF Building 407 Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City.Fee: 380
III. E- commerce

1. Internet Marketing
2. B2B - Business to Business

IV. Shopping cart software

1. Popular PHP-MySQL Software
2. Installation and Demo
3. Joomla and Virtuemart
4. Drupal E-Commerce
5. OSCommerce
6. ZenCart
7. Magento
8. PrestaShop

V. Blogging and Earning Money

1. Blogs
2. Google Adsense and Adwords

The seminar is offered for only P380 per topic but is discounted to P320 each provided both seminars will be taken together for whole day saving you as much as P120 for both.

These seminars are continuously being offered by TPC Events and TipidPC.Com in their commitment to serve its community, the IT Industry and the needs of the students in completing their courses.

Venue: PDTF Function Room, 3rd Floor, PDAF Building, 407 Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City.

Fee: 380

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Web Analytics Seminar and Training

Online Business and E-Commerce (AM Session)

Date: October 3, 2010 - Sunday | Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Speaker: Jerome Esperanza

REGISTER HERE: http://www.tpcevents.org. To Confirm Please PM or CALL:PM: Justice_league | YM: Justice_league_tpc | CP#: 09174362660
Venue: PDTF Function Room, 3rd Floor, PDAF Building 407 Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City.Fee: 380
I. Web Analytics

1. Introduction to web analytics
2. Google Analytics architecture overview
3. GA technical implementation
4. GA reporting features
5. Sharing GA data
6. Custom dashboards
7. Understanding site visitors
8. Evaluating site content and user navigation
9. Improving your data with filters
10. Setting up goals and funnels
11. Tracking websites with multiple domains/subdomains
12. Code customization

II. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

1. Search Engines (Basic Overview)
2. Introduction to SEO
3. Keyword Research
4. Google Website Optimizer
5. Page titles
6. Meta tags
7. Improving the structure of URLs
8. Improving site navigation
9. Quality content and services
10. Anchor text
11. Heading tags
12. Optimizing use of images
13. Robots.txt
14. Promoting your website in the right ways
15. White Hat vs Black Hat
16. Webmaster tools
17. Google Search Applications

The seminar is offered for only P380 per topic but is discounted to P320 each provided both seminars will be taken together for whole day saving you as much as P120 for both.

These seminars are continuously being offered by TPC Events and TipidPC.Com in their commitment to serve its community, the IT Industry and the needs of the students in completing their courses.

Affordaink Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS) - http://www.affordaink.ph/

For reliable and cheap continuous inks (ink flow supply systems) products visit this latest web project, Affordaink Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS), at http://www.affordaink.ph/

Branches can be found all over Metro Manila easily accessible in Greenhills-Virra Mall, St. Francis Square-Ortigas, Market! Market!-Taguig, and a few more branches.

Joomla (CMS) seminar in Ortigas, Pasig on August 22, 2010

Kindly visit and register at TipidPC Events at http://www.tpcevents.org/

CMS- Content Management SystemDrupal, Joomla, Wordpress, and other web-based CMS


Date: Aug 22, 2010 - Sunday
Time: 2:00pm-6:00pm
Speaker: TPC Events Team
Venue: Roofdeck 23 Capinpin Place Capinpin St. San Antonio Village, Ortigas, Pasig City, Philippines
Topics: CMS and other web technologies used for websites, intranets and portals, photo and media galleries, shopping cart, forums, blogs, etc. Primary focus on Joomla.

See you!

Visit also http://www.jeromeesperanza.com

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/show.php?catid=6&cat=Learning%20Management

Joomla hands-on training, Quezon City, Philippines

Conducted yet another comprehensive Joomla hands-on training last Dec. 12-13. Participants are already Joomla users so the sessions were adjusted for an advanced coverage of the topic include even Joomla security, SEO, analytics, and more.

If interested for such training in Metro Manila, which is very accessible (being located within the Cubao, Quezon City area), contact ACE I.T. Learning Solutions.

Apache, MySQL and PHP (AMP) for MAC = MAMP

Got an Adobe newsletter this week featuring MAMP which is an acronym that stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Article here: http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2009/articles/article2/index.html?trackingid=FBTRR#item3

Just spreading the word...

To note:

"Be aware that the current WAMP installer includes PHP 5.3.0. (to date)... Joomla and Drupal are not yet compatible with PHP 5.3.0. WordPress is compatible with PHP 5.3.0, but you need to make a small edit to the php.ini file to manually set the time zone for your location.

In Drupal, the following error occurs when you run the installation wizard:

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 895

If you are using WAMP, you can address this error by downloading the latest 5.2.x version of PHP. Click the WAMP icon in the system tray and choose PHP > Version > Get More. The current MAMP installer ships with PHP 5.2.10, so this issue does not affect MAMP and Mac users."

AMP on!

Joomla Website Security and Maintenance Training (IFES.org.ph)

Conducted a 2-day training on Joomla Website Security and Maintenance for IFES.org.ph (http://www.ifes.org.ph) staff with primary purpose of web backup and recovery processes.

Tools used and recommended:

• FileZilla
• Dreamweaver
• MySQL GUI Tools (administrator)
• Google Web tools and services (Optimizer, Analytics, etc.)
• XAMPP/WampServer
  

Cool office, lots of food :D, great company! Hope to work with you guys again...

E-Commerce Website project, review of CMS...

Am doing heavy research for an e-commerce pet project these days... to date the ff. are noteworthy:

Magento

Magento is an interesting platform for your e-commerce website. It's modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.

PrestaShop

PrestaShop is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free. It supports a lot of interesting features for a total control of your e-Commerce shop.

Drupal e-commerce

Drupal e-Commerce is a package of modules to let you create your own online store. It is totally free, open source, rich featured and flexible. The system can use PayPal, Authorize.net, eWAY, C.O.D. or you can roll your own.

Zen-Cart

Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

CubeCart

CubeCart is an "out of the box" ecommerce shopping cart software solution which has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.

osCommerce

osCommerce is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

VirtueMart

VirtueMart is not a CMS but an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.

FatFreeCart

FatFreeCart is a free shopping cart developed by the team behind E-junkie shopping cart. It works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything. It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax.

More issues to follow... am sure... :D

First Issue with PrestaShop, an E-Commerce CMS

http://www.prestashop.com/
Installer: prestashop 1.2.3

Problems:

- Stuck on Step 4, cannot proceed to Step 5; entering sitename/admin displays the login page but with below login error
- Installation > Step 4: Error: prestashop employee does not exist, or bad password

Checks done:

- PhpMyAdmin, ps_employee is empty despite having entered (and re-entered during re-installs) an admin e-mail/account

Fix:

- By avoided uploading any logo image, Step 5 follows through
- Logo change can easily be done manually in /img directory (logo.jpg)

More to follow as project progresses... Share some points here :D thanks!

A Drupal 6 Seminar, Ortigas, Pasig... more details at TPCEvents.Org

Drupal Seminar (Web Content Management System)
Date: Aug 23, 2009 - Sunday
Time: 9:00am - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Jerome A. Esperanza
Description:

Introduction

· Overview of Content Management Systems (CMS)
· Apache, MySQL and PHP Services as Requirements to Drupal
· Installing WAMPServer or XAMPP
· Brief Overview of Drupal

Drupal Proper

Installation

· Basic configurations (Frontend)

· Database

Administering the backend

· Content Management (comments, content types, settings, RSS publishing, taxonomy and categorization
· Blocks (content appears in your site\'s sidebars and other regions)
· Menus (navigation menus, primary links and secondary links, etc.)
· Modules (default and installation of added modules)
· Themes (installation of new themes and basic customization)
· User management (administering access rules, permissions, roles, user settings, users and user groups)
· Site configuration (Actions, Administration theme, Clean URLs, Date and time, Error reporting, File system, Image toolkit, Input formats, Logging and alerts, Performance, Site information, Site maintenance
· Reports (Recent log entries, View \'access denied\' errors (403s), View \'page not found\' errors (404s), Available updates of installed modules and themes, Status report)


Back-ups, Recovery, and Restoration

· Files and folders
· Database

Other Topics (Optional Topics, depending on time availability)

· Basic Search Optimization and Other Tips and Techniques
· Dreamweaver, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Drupal: Basic Tips and Techniques
· Firefox Add-ons and Other Tools for Drupal and Web Developers
· Web Analytics: Drupal and Google Analytics
Venue: Roofdeck 23 Capinpin Place Capinpin St. San Antonio Village Ortigas, Pasig, Philippines

More details at TPCEvents.Org

Images (or Logos) in the Weblinks for Joomla

The default web links core component of Joomla unfortunately has no option of assigning or uploading images or logos assigned respectively to each weblink item. I am running a organizational site that has a lot member of schools and institutions and having each of its member logos displayed alongside (or somewhere) beside its url or web link item seems a cool thing as. To date, it seems this is not a possible option yet for the current Joomla weblinks core component. Further googling seems to prove that.

Anyway, one component seem to serve that purpose, plus a few gem of layouts!

Try Simple Lists component, check it out here:

• About the developer and component http://opensource.jira.nl/projects/simplelists
• Demo: http://joomla1.demo.jira.nl/index.php?option=com_simplelists&view=simplelist&layout=toggle&category_id=34&Itemid=65

One setback only, you had to veer away from the weblinks component, as this might confuse your not so Joomla-proficient-web admin.

Joomla Hands-on Training

Conducted a Content Management System hands on training using Joomla at ACE I.T. Learning Center, Cubao, Q.C. last 10 May, 2009. Hands down... great and conducive facility... a learning experience as teacher and students alike shared new Joomla experiences, techniques and tips! Looking forward to another session...

Thanks to the ACE men, a cool bunch of folks... visit them here for more hands-on, relevant and useful courses: http://www.ace-itlearning.com.

TPCEvents.Org: Joomla Seminar

El Maestro! Cool crowd here, cool venue and organizers! Next stop... Drupal :D

Google Analytics in Joomla and Drupal (installating ga script or code)

Tried the different Joomla google analytics modules but instead of trying to figure out how each works or is configured, I opted to try the manual, classic way of installing Google Analytics script in Joomla (or Drupal, and other opensource CMS) which is more foolproof. In one Joomla 1.0 project, I did the ff:

1. Registered the site in my Google Analytics account (your personal account can host multiple sites each with its own unique google analytics script generated and provided after successful signup).
2. When code/script was generated, determined which template the site uses.
3. In the template's index page (.../site/templates/templatename/index.php), I inserted the generated Google Analytics code/script provided for this site account just before the body closing tag.

4. After inserting the script in Joomla's template index page, go back to Google Analytics > Analytics Settings > Profile Settings for the site concerned > then click check status (somewhere in the upper right corner of the page).
5. Notice will be displayed if ga script was installed successfully, hence a "receiving data" status is given. One should just wait for the statistics to be generated then. 24 hour period should be sufficient waiting time.

Enjoy! Hope this helps!

P.S. the same should work with Drupal and other dynamic CMS templates irregardless of versions (just always make a backup copy of the template's index page for easy restoration if something didn't quite work).

Joomla 1.5 installation error: Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client

If during a Joomla 1.5 installation, the following error is encountered:

"An error has occurred:

Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client. You will not be able to install the application with this feature disabled. Alternatively, there could also be a problem with the server's session.save_path. If this is the case, please consult your hosting provider if you don't know how to check or fix this yourself"

don't be alarmed!

And before rushing in and trying complicated steps and changing settings for Apache, PHP, and MySQL (like a few forum threads actually suggest), try simply the following:

• clear the browser's cache (you may not even need to go to advanced internet tools options for this),
• restart your Apache, MySQL and PHP services (you may need to request your webhost for this in live server settings, or in local machine your XAMPP, WAMPServer, etc. restart commands),
• then go back to Joomla installation.
  

Then again, just documenting my experiences... disclaimer applies :D