Class 3

Class #3 Assignments are due on June 14, 2008, at 8 AM.

By now you should have planned your whole website and started building in some content. It's finally time to make it all look pretty!

Joomla-specific deliverables

  • Fill out missing content on your Joomla site
  • Start researching some extensions you may wish to include in your site
  • Convert your site look from HTML or Photoshop sketch to Joomla template.

Discussion deliverables

  • Complete the two discussion questions in Moodle.
  • Register for Linked In, and give it a try!

Other items to complete

  • By now, you should have finished either Design for Community or Designing for the Social Web. I've got questions coming on these books, so get them read if you haven't done so already.
1 Possibility Two: build your own template
2 Possibility One: Download a Joomla Template
 
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