Short course in Professional web development using Joomla and WordPress

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 website with less effort. Using CMS (Content Management System) one can manage whole website through administrator panel.

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

In next sessions, you will learn:

How to develop/design various type of website 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.

Batch 16 is fully online. Classes will be held on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays From 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm

General

Programme Code : SCPWDV
Programme Category : Short Programme –(CERC Project) Approved by The Department of Computer Science
Conducted by : The Department of Computer Science
Programme Duration : 10 Weeks
Discipline(s) / Course(s) : Professional web development using Joomla and WordPress
Medium : English/Sinhala