Joomla Day USA Sessions April 24, 2021

Presenting the accessibility improvements in Joomla 4, and how to use them to design and build an accessible website.

When a client asks for more than what a third-party extension can do, don’t disappoint your client. This session will show an approach to add custom features to third-party components responsibly without hacking code. 

How to build a bespoke Joomla template. Learn skills to design any website from scratch; understand styles and design considerations.

Joomlatools Pages is an easy to use page generator for Joomla inspired by the ideas and concepts of flat-file CMS systems and static site generators. Make no mistake Pages is not a static site generator (SSG), Pages works in a dynamic, lazy and smart way. 

Created by Joomla co-founder Johan Janssens, it gives total control over content and layout, fits like a glove into Joomla and allows you create super-fast Joomla websites!
 

How I created a better table search, filter, and sort in Fabrik using Sourcerer. Will show the setup and sample code.

What is Freedom?

The Custom Fields were introduced in Joomla with version 3.7. It was a real game changer.

Join Brian to explore the hidden secrets of creating content in J4 without installing any addons. Presentation will be live close-captioned.

Work that Flow, new ways to manage your content. Exploring the new Workflow feature of Joomla 4, its capabilities and what’s possible

Social networks are terrible places. Let's learn to use them to your advantage! This session will cover the different options you can use to harness the mass appeal of social networks to your advantage. Through tools like social network authentication, social proof (Like buttons, Pages), events, automatic content posting and more, you can make your 1-man show seem a lot bigger than it is.

Joomla! is built by a community of volunteers around the world. They're known as Joomlers!
From coding and testing, to documentation and translation, right through to marketing and management, Joomla has many ways you can get involved in helping with the project.
Patrick Jackson is team leader of the Joomla Volunteer Engagement Team, and in this session he will be outlining many ways you can become a Joomler, whether you have an hour spare every so often, or are looking at having several hours a week available to participate.

Update about the latest and greatest stuff we are working on with 3.10 as well as the path forward.

Joomla can be a great platform for creating targeted solutions for various Industries and a viable alternative to SAAS offerings giving more or less all the benefits of continuous evolution SAAS products offer while retaining the freedom to host it & modify it as needed . In this session we will explore how we helped several Associations & Not for profits through our Joomla based offerings.

Build complex components using Joomla Componet Builder (JCB) in a fraction of the time, within your own Joomla website.
Come and see why so many who at first were against this tool, now can't stop speaking about its success.

Receive guidance on how to most efficiently and effectively exchange free support for all Joomla-related questions.

Module for easy customizing of the Cassiopeia template with no css or html, just lots of options, for free!

Make the Joomla! 4 Workflow fit your workflow. The workflow is not only about publishing content but it's about automating your processes, giving you support in daily article management. That's why the workflow is fully customizable to fit your needs via plugins. How to do so? Visit this talk and see how a Joomla! 4 Workflow plugin is created.

Website Accessibility allows access to a broad audience through a solid design. How to create beautiful, functional, accessible websites.
Do we have a good understanding of the many ways in which website visitors are accessing our websites? This is the first step.
Let’s close the gap using good design procedures. There is no push button solution - only a greater understanding and guidelines to follow.
I will be discussing some basic and beginner steps that can get you started down the path and hopefully encourage you to continue. I will introduce some resources and community groups to engage in to leverage the knowledge of others as well as share your own. Let’s do this together.

Learn to make a custom user form directly connected to your Joomla core users for easy management. Tie to data within Fabrik.

Communications and Engagement. Those two words summarize the value I believe I bring to the clients and customers I work with. Whether through traditional marketing, social media or customer engagement programs, I strive to deliver the highest level of engagement, touch and value for the clients and companies I work with.

Federated login, Webathn in Joomla 4, and ReCaptcha v3 make it easy to register and tighten the security of your website.

In September 2020 Peter Martin got an idea to create a new website: the-best-website.com. It's a website about best practices for websites. In this presentation Peter will tell you about the idea, show you how he has built his website and how you can test your website.

Let's create a fully functional Joomla! deployment pipeline in a matter of minutes and make sure your websites look top-notch on any device with visual tests. I will show you how to save countless hours by streamlining the boring stuff into a single process with zero scripting.

You've built a beautiful site. To your dismay, search engines sink it and it's too slow. Take it to Niko's Joomla Garage for performance tuning! My tricks apply to Joomla 3 and 4.

How to improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) engineering for your small to medium website, given the multifaceted changing nature of SEO.