These workshops are now complete. We may be repeating these workshops in 2008. For all of our upcoming workshops please look at the workshops page.
overview
Learn how to manage your own CMS website and save money and improve competitiveness with a practical hands-on four hour workshop.
You will need to bring along a laptop as this is a practical hands-on workshop involving you using a variety of open source software to create and manage a CMS website. The workshop will include hands-on detail relating to topics of interest and relevance to CMS as highlighted during the Understanding e-Business workshops
- Data analysis and feedback from the Understanding e-Business workshops is available at CoPe
What will I learn?
The workshop will cover the following topics:
- What is a Content Management System?
- CMS fundamentals
- Terminology, hosting, users & roles, content, workflow & publishing, skinning, themes & templates
- Introducing 4 Open Source CMS
- DotNetNuke
- Drupal
- Joomla! and
- Wordpress
- Choosing the right CMS for your business
- Worked examples using 4 different CMS
- Creating a website page with text and images
- Creating a blog entry
- Adding a product to an eCommerce enabled store
- Understanding e-business workshop topics
- Using Creative Commons content
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Search Engine Marketing
- e-marketing
- Website analytics
- Summary
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when & where
The workshops will be taking place at the following dates, all workshops will start at 12.30pm and finish at 4:30pm
Thursday 13th March Wednesday 26th March and Tuesday 1st April (no really!)
All workshops will take place at NETPark Incubator, Sedgefield, County Durham - how to find us.
free courses...
All delegates will receive a free online course in one of the following subjects to "take away" with them following the workshop:
workshop fees redeemable...
All delegates are eligible to redeem the cost of this workshop (£85.00 + VAT) against the purchase of any CMS website installed by deBurca. |
how do i register for a workshop?
Click on the date that you would like to attend from the drop down list below and then click on the "add" link - you will then be guided through the registration process.
Once you have successfully registered you should receive a confirmation email and your account will be updated to show the workshop for which you have registered.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop. Don't forget to bring along your laptop and power cable.
Please note that due to the hands-on nature places are limited and non-attendance (unless rebooked on a future workshop) will incur a cancellation fee of £50 + VAT |