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Joomla 1.5 Installation

Joomla 1.5 Advanced

Joomla Administration
Joomla Menu Manager
Joomla Manual Backup and Restore
Joomla Template Install And Uninstall
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PixSearch
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QContacts
Joomla Update Manager
Google+1 Button

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WordPress Basic

WordPress Tutorials
An Introduction to Wordpress
Wordpress Download
Prior Wordpress Installation
Creating a Wordpress Virtual Domain under Apache
Creating The MySQL Database And User For Your Wordpress Installation
Wordpress Installation
WordPress Theme Install And Uninstall
Wordpress 3.0.1 Installation
Using Wordpress as a CMS
Add Widgets To WordPress Templates
Install WordPress 3.X In Multi Blog / Multi user mode
Reset WordPress MultiBlog User Password

Starting WordPress

Creating Page(s) In WordPress
Uploading And Inserting Image(s) Into WordPress Page(s)
Manually Inserting Image(s) Into WordPress Page(s)
Inserting Image(s) Into WordPress Page(s) Using FTP
Uploading And Inserting You Tube Video(s) Into WordPress Page(s)
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Creating Post(s) In WordPress
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Categories In WordPress
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Category Manager in Joomla 1.7
Article Manager in Joomla 1.7
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Introduction to Javascript
Javascript DOM Introduction
Change the Background Color of an HTML Element (DIV)
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Apache Home
Introduction to Apache Web Server
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PHP Lessons

PHP Home
An Introduction to PHP
PHP Download
PHP Installation
Binding PHP to Apache
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Running PHP at the Command Prompt

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MySQL Lessons

MySQL Home
An Introduction to MySQL
MySQL Download
MySQL Installation
Changing the MySQL Application Data Directory path on Windows / XP / Vista
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Starting the MySQL Command Line Client
MySQL 5.5.9 Installation Problem

MySQL Advanced

Logging in to MySQL as Root
Creating MySQL Users
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Creating a MySQL Database
Hands on Exercises
Solutions To Hands On Exercises
Creating a MySQL Table
Hands on Exercises
Solutions To Hands On Exercises

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AJAX Lessons

AJAX Home
AJAX Introduction
Display Web Page Content
PHP Module Interact With MySQL

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Moodle Lessons

Moodle Home
Introduction to Moodle
Moodle Download
Prior Moodle Installation
Creating a Moodle Virtual Domain under Apache
Creating the MySQL Database and User for Moodle
Installing Moodle
Upgrading Moodle
Change the Default Moodle Template
Downloading New Moodle Themes

Free SEO Tutorials

SEO Lessons

SEO Home
Pre SEO Website Analysis
SEO Basic Concepts Part 1
SEO Basic Concepts Part 2
SEO Basic Concepts Part 3

Free OpenOffice Tutorials

OpenOffice Lessons

Open Office Home
Open Office Introduction
Open Office Download
Open Office Installation
Open Office Uninstallation

Free SEM Tutorials

SEM Lessons

SEM Home
SEM Introduction
SEM Basic Concepts Part 1
SEM Basic Concepts Part 2
Marketing Without Search Engines

Free dotProject Tutorials

dotProject Lessons

dotProject Home
About Project Management
An Introduction to dotProject
dotProject Download
Prior dotProject Installation
Creating dotProject Virtual Domain
Creating MySQL Database and User for dotProject Installation
dotProject Installation

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Apache Lessons

Creating Virtual Domain Under Apache
.htaccess File
Robots.txt File
Configuring your server to permit SSI

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PHP Lessons

Interaction Between PHP And MySQL
PHP / MySQL - at the Command Prompt
Optimize PHP To Handle Large File Uploads
Storing The User Input Values In A File using PHP
Read And Write To A File Using PHP

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MySQL Advanced

Performing Operations on Table data
Data manipulating with Select
Primary and Foreign Keys
Introduction to MySQL Index
Creating MySQL Index on New Table
Creating MySQL Simple Index
Creating A MySQL Simple Unique Index
Creating A MySQL Composite Index
Creating A MySQL Composite Unique Index
Creating A MySQL Index Using ALTER
Dropping MySQL Index
Triggers

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Link Building Basics

Understanding The Basics Of Link Building
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OpenOffice Writer

Starting Open Office Writer
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Creating and Saving a Writer Document
Formatting Text In A Writer Document
Formatting Paragraph In A Writer Document
Formatting Pages In A Writer Document
Templates In Writer
Styles In Templates

OpenOffice Impress

Starting Open Office Impress
Exploring Open Office.org Impress Window
Creating and Saving a New Presentation
Viewing a Presentation
Working with Slides
Entering and Editing Text

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JavaScript Lessons

Display HTML elements
Display the Number of Buttons on an HTML Page
Client Side Form Data Validation Using Javascript
Check that a Textbox that must be filled in is not left empty
Check that a Textbox contains only numbers i.e. no characters allowed
Check that a Textbox should accept minimum 8 characters
Check that special characters are not inserted into a Textbox
Check that a date is valid according to month
Check that a Textbox that must be filled in is not left empty using error DIV
Hands on exercise
Solutions to Hands on Exercise
Trimming Whitespaces in JavaScript

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Starting SEO

The page title and the page headline
META Keywords - What they do for S.E.O
Choosing the right keywords
Using tools to obtain right keywords
Choosing A Final Set Of Keywords
On Page Search Engine Optimization – An Approach
Optimization of Page Load Times

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Mootools Basics

Introduction to Mootools
Creating user defined Mootools library
Manipulating HTML DOM Elements with Mootools 1.2

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dotProject Lessons

Upgrading DotProject
Adding Companies and Departments
Adding Employees and Users
Managing Project(s)

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Moodle Lessons

Creating A Course Category In Moodle
Setting The Enrollment Methods For A Course
Student Self Enrolment
Course Creation In Moodle
Manually Enrolling Students For A Course
Adding Resources To A Course

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PrestaShop Lessons

Prestashop Home
Prestashop Description And Download
Installing PrestaShop On Localhost
Setting Up And Configuring PrestaShop
Changing The Default Theme Of PrestaShop
Changing The Template Logo For PrestaShop

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Ajax Lessons

Ajax Based Login
AJAX Based RSS Aggregator Using PHP
AJAX Based RSS Aggregator Using PHP And Curl

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Joomla 1.7 Advanced

Add A Module To A Joomla 1.7 Template
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Site Maintenance In Joomla 1.7
User Groups In Joomla 1.7
Redirect Manager In Joomla 1.7
Creating An Article And Binding It To A Menu Item in Joomla 1.7
Media Manager In Joomla 1.7

Joomla 1.7 - 3rd Party Plugins Modules and Components

FlexiContact
Boxplus

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Wordpress Security Basics

Wordpress Security Part One
Wordpress Security Part Two
Wordpress Security Part Three
Moving The WordPress configuration file outside The public_html Folder
Changing WordPress Default ‘wp’ - Table Prefix
Install WordPress 3.X In Multi Blog / Multi user mode
Reset WordPress MultiBlog User Password

WP Third Party Plugins

Ultimate Security Checker
AskApache Password Protect Plugin
WordPress File Monitor Plus
Google+1 Button Plugin
Fluency Admin Theme
WordPress Security Scan
Better WordPress Security

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Creating A Custom Wordpress Theme
Understanding The Contents Of A Wordpress Theme Folder
Creating A WordPress Theme Part I
Creating A Wordpress theme Part II
Creating The Footer Section Of The Theme

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Joomla 1.5 Advanced

Joomla Security Basics
Securing The Joomla Administrator Folder Using cPanel
Removing Access control - Joomla Administrator Folder - Created Via cPanel
Change The Default jos_ Prefix For Joomla Database Tables
Checking The Security Of Joomla Plugins

Joomla 1.5 - 3rd Party Plugins Modules and Components

Simplest Forum
Joomla Watch
Akeeba Backup / Joomla Pack (Backup)
Acajoom Newsletter
RSFirewall

Joomla 1.5 Tips and Tricks

Content Encoding Error
Backing up a Joomla website with security applied using cPanel
Setting Up The Joomla Built-in Search Module
Joomla Cache

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VirtueMart Lessons

VirtueMart Home
VirtueMart description and download
VirtueMart Installation
VirtueMart Configuration
Creating Category In VirtueMart
Adding New Products To VirtueMart
Displaying VirtueMart In The Frontend
Updating VirtueMart
Coupons In VirtueMart
Product Discount in VirtueMart
VirtueMart Module
VirtueMart Featured Product Module
Hide/Display Featured Products in VirtueMart
VirtueMart Search Module and Plugin
VirtueMart Product Category Module
VirtueMart Product Scroller Module
VirtueMart Cart Module
VirtueMart Latest Product Module
VirtueMart Top Ten Module
Connecting VirtueMart to PayPal (Sandbox)
Connecting VirtueMart To PayPal (Live)

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PayPal Lessons

PayPal Home
Creating a Sandbox Account in PayPal
Creating Live Account in PayPal
Accept and Refund Payment in PayPal
Upgrade PayPal Personal Account to Premier Account
Upgrading From Premier To Business PayPal Account
Creating An Invoice In PayPal
Paying An Invoice By Paypal
Closing Account In PayPal
Create A PayPal Payment Button ( i.e. The Buy Now Button )

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