An Introduction to Web Development Using Joomla

Setting up an interactive portal for your company? Building an e-commerce website for your business? Developing a social network portal for friends and family? Creating a sophisticated real-estate management site? How long do you think would each of these take? What if I tell you that it’s possible to build any of these sites in just a matter of days? Amazing?! I’d say incredible!!!

But it’s true. With a website development platform and content management system like Joomla , building sophisticated, interactive, and professional-looking web-based systems is possible within a short time and at very minimal costs. Because Joomla is largely supported by an open source community, the website you only dreamed possible is now within reach and may easily become a reality.

The good news is that I’ve decided to share what I’ve learned building Joomla-based websites through a half-day seminar entitled Using a Content Management System: Building Sophisticated, Interactive Websites Using Joomla!.

Harnessing the Power of the Internet to Sell to an Online Market

For the last two years, I’ve been researching and experimenting with the Internet and how to develop and sell to an online market. I started by reading the books of Seth Godin entitled "Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers" and Cliff Figallo’s “Hosting Web Communities: Building Relationships, Increasing Customer Loyalty, and Maintaining A Competitive Edge.” In time I’ve built some very successful online communities, joined and studied online discussion boards (as of this writing, I’m a member of 95 e-groups, with 15 as owner and 6 as moderator) discovered free software that helped me develop techniques and mount successful online marketing campaigns, and learned how to optimize existing Internet products to support my online efforts at very minimal costs. Today I’m in the process of launching a chain of online portals that will bring all the results of my previous efforts to a higher and more exciting level of development.

The beauty of online marketing is that you can run it at a very minimal cost, (sometimes even practically free), in the comfort of your own home (your only investment would be a broadband connection), and can leave some of the tasks in auto-pilot (so your system continues to work for you even while you’re sleeping). And yet the rewards can be tremendous!

The good news is that I’ve decided to share what I’ve learned through a half-day seminar entitled: Internet Marketing for Beginners: Harnessing the Power of the Internet to Sell to an Online Market.

Ernesto ‘Boogie’ Cruz Boydon has over twenty four (24) years of experience in the Information Technology industry. Among the executive positions that he has held in industry are as Projects Director for Dataflow, Inc.; as General Manager of EDINet Philippines of the Ayala Group of Companies; and as President & CEO of Inobbar Technologies Corporation. He is currently the General Manager of Elcott CyberOutsource, a company that specializes in Web Solutions and ICT Training.

He has also been an IT educator for the same number of years and is currently connected with the Ateneo de Manila University, the Asia Pacific College, the Technological Institute of the Philippines, and the University of San Jose – Recolectos in Cebu where he conducts online learning classes for their MSIT program. Previously, he has also taught and worked with the Trinity College of Quezon City (now the Trinity University of Asia), the Asian College of Science and Technology, the University of Asia and the Pacific, and the University of the East.