LVS Online Registration opens for the March 2009 session today. Hurry on over there as spaces are limited for these popular instructor-led and self-study online courses. There is an online class for everyone and they certainly will equip you with new skills and might even change your life!

Joomla online class registration is available costing only $25 per six week instructor-led course reducing to $20 for returning students – we look forward to ‘meeting’ you…

Ever wondered what ‘Joomla’ means? Here is the definition from part of Joomla, Open Source Matters:

“The name Joomla! is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word “Jumla”, which means “all together” or “as a whole”. It was chosen as the entire team behind Mambo was unanimous in their commitment to protecting the interests of the project and community.

This name was chosen from thousands of recommendations by the community, and even went through an arduous review session by branding and marketing professionals who also felt that Joomla! was the best choice of the lot.”

Modules positions are places on your webpage, set up by your template’s index.php and listed in the related .xml file, that can contain modules such as a menu module or a poll module. You can have more than one module in each position dependent on space available. An example of this would be the left column which might have several menu modules, a login module and more.

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Make your own typography cloud – add words, use your rss feed from your website or your blog or even use your del.icio.us tags… Here is a cloud made with this blog’s RSS Feed:

Just a bit of fun and design courtesy of Wordle who say:

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.”

Worried about coding? Still using tables for everything? LVS Online has just the series of courses for you!

Known as the “Build” classes, Deborah, Becky and Vikki take you through, stage by stage, all the coding you will need to build a modern, standards compliant website.

Although you can use Joomla! with no coding knowledge at all, knowledge is power and being able to recognize which part of the code affects which part of the page is an advantage.
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LVS Online is a distance-learning web site dedicated to providing students with an affordable and fun way to learn.

Quote from LVS Online:

“Our online classes are perfect for senior learners, homeschoolers, or those seeking a stress-relieving hobby or even a career change. You will not need any special hardware or software to participate. There are no scheduled class times – you decide when you would like to work online, day or the middle of the night, no matter what time zone. Your instructor is there to review your work, answer questions or concerns and, if you would like, you can chat with other students on our class discussion board. The very best part of online learning is that you do not have to leave your home to enjoy a course developed and taught by a professional in their field!”
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Perhaps you are a non-coder, you installed Joomla! on your server using Fantastico with all the default Joomla content, your site works and you are a happy bunny! So why do you need this active Joomla Community? Sooner or later you will hit a problem, you will need more functionality and you will want to make your site look different from the crowd.

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With a newly chosen Gravatar, I celebrate their company and friendship. Always there at my feet as I am concentrating intensely on a current project but with inbuilt time clocks that keep my sometimes irregulated life in order.
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Without these Developers Joomla! wouldn’t exist! …and I include the great Joomla! Community in these greetings too.

2009 is the time for me to ‘give back’ and I can reveal that from March 2009, LVS Online will offer a new course – Joomla! Fast Track. LVS Online – where learning is fun!