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		<title>Speaker @ Dutch Joomla Days 2010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Joomladays are a couple of days where everyone who uses Joomla professionally or for private reasons can meet with other people using Joomla and the experts and creators of Joomla. All in all a very nice event to do some networking and getting the name of ManualsFountain out in the community, by being a [...]


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<h2>An interesting story&#8230;</h2>
<p>First of all <a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com" target="_blank">ManualsFountain</a> would like to give thanks to all the people organizing this wonderful event.<br />
The<a href="http://www.joomladagen.nl/" target="_blank"> JoomlaDys NL</a> took place on April 23<sup>rd</sup> and 24<sup>th</sup>, 2010 in Utrecht and ManualsFountain was there, with an interesting story to tell.</p>
<div id="attachment_369" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 548px"><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Marc-at-work.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-369" title="Marc at work" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Marc-at-work-1024x265.jpg" alt="" width="538" height="139" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Getting ready to give the presentation. Beamers and laptops...</p></div>
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<h2>Supporting your clients&#8230;</h2>
<p>As a web developer you need a very keen eye to see where your customers will have difficulties managing their new websites. So you need to support them. But how? There are many ways of support and some are quite time consuming and some are very frustrating for end-users. The fun of your job is going quickly down the drain if 20 customers are calling about the same problem, and the problem is a basic Joomla action or feature.</p>
<h2>The view of the End-User</h2>
<p>Marc Barteling <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcbarteling"><span style="font: 80% Arial,sans-serif; color: #0783b6;"><img style="vertical-align: middle; border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.linkedin.com/img/webpromo/btn_in_20x15.png" border="0" alt="View Marc Barteling's LinkedIn profile" width="20" height="15" /></span></a>, CEO of ManualsFountain.com, presented the case of Natascha, the end-user of Joomla and the difficulty she had with finding the best way to change her websites menus. Marc outlined that there were lots of sources for help and Natascha tried each source. Some were frustrating to use, others were hard to access.<br />
Fortunately, ManualsFountain has a solution available for the support problems that lots of web developers face: Professional Video-Tutorials. These video tutorials take the end-user  through Joomla step-by-step, making them familiar with all the basics. Natascha was happy to use them, so why not let <em>your</em> end-users try them?</p>
<div id="attachment_370" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 548px"><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/The-crowd-comes-in.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-370" title="The crowd comes in" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/The-crowd-comes-in-1024x410.jpg" alt="" width="538" height="215" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Joomla is not about Joomla.&quot;</p></div>
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<h2>Joomla and Origami?</h2>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-394" title="mf-logo-100wide-notxt" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mf-logo-100wide-notxt.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="88" />For the people in the room listening to Marc’s presentation, there was some interaction too, to make them understand how difficult Joomla can be for someone who’s never used it, the audience was given a sheet of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">origami</span></a> paper, and told to fold the ManualsFountain origami logo from it. No-one succeeded to fold the bird, without support and instructions. This way Marc made the audience understand the value of good end-user support.</p>
<h2>Other JoomlaDays experiences</h2>
<p>We also visited other presentations during the day. A lot was learned from the lead man of <a href="http://www.2value.nl" target="_blank">2Value</a>, Henk van Cann. We were surprised by Henk-Willem Laan with the inspiring story about the <a href="http://www.marshallsmith.org" target="_blank">Marshal Smith Syndrome</a> and how Joomla helped him and his son.  At the end of the day we had some good laughs about <a href="https://twitter.com/brianteeman" target="_blank">Brian Teenman</a>’s story about how Joomla got its name.</p>
<h2>Learn more about ManualsFountain.com</h2>
<p><strong>ManualsFountain’s Video-Tutorials were met with great enthusiasm on the JoomlaDays.<br />
Want to know why? Click <a href="http://manualsfountain.com/contents/manual_joomla-eng-01/89/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here </span></a>to learn more about our Joomla video-tutorials in <a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/contents/manual_joomla-eng-01/89/" target="_blank">English</a> or </strong><strong><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/contents/manual_joomla-dut-01/95/" target="_blank">Dutch</a>. </strong></p>
<div id="attachment_371" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 548px"><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/general-overview.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-371" title="General overview" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/general-overview-1024x277.jpg" alt="" width="538" height="145" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Our first Joomla Days. Good content, interesting people and well organized.</p></div>
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<h2>More info:</h2>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/manualsfountain/joomladays-2010-manualsfountain" target="_blank">View the full presentation</a></strong> we gave at the JoomlaDays NL 2010 on Slideshare.</li>
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<li><strong>And coming up soon</strong>: <strong>a video </strong>from Marc&#8217;s presentation: Joomladays NL  2010, the Movie ! <img src='http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
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		<title>Release of Dutch WordPress Manual</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><em><strong>We have released the Dutch WordPress manual!</strong></em></h1>
<p>As we announced earlier, we’ve released the Dutch version of the WordPress Manual. This because of the success of the English version. The manual consists of 16 high quality professional video tutorials. The voiceover is English, but now we’ve released the Dutch Subtitles Track. This means that Dutch people can now get to work with WordPress in their own language!</p>
<p>We are not done yet, though. Later this year we will release also German, Spanish and French translations of the manual. World Wide blogging with ManualsFountain.com!</p>
<p>Curious what the manual has to offer? The manual covers a wide range of subjects, which will make you a pro in working with WordPress in no time.</p>
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<h2>The WordPress manual:</h2>
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<li>First the manual covers the basic principles of WordPress. This chapter features subjects as: “What is a Blog?” and “What is WordPress?”</li>
<li>Then it will make you feel at home, by teaching you to getting around in WordPress. It will do this by teaching you about the Interface of WordPress, how to use the Dashboard and how you need to Manage Roles and Users.</li>
<li>After making you feel comfortable in WordPress, the manual will continue with Editing Content. This section will teach you How to Write Posts, How to Manage Posts, How to Format text, How to copy and Paste Text, to Work with Comments, How to Use Tags and Links, to Use the Media Library and How to Use Images and Video’s.</li>
<li>Next up in the manual is how to Organize Content. In this section subjects like “Using Pages”, “Using Pages” and “Using Widgets” are covered.</li>
<li>To finalize the manual we’ve added Additional Reference. This section contains a PDF file with sources for more help and a User Comparison Chart.</li>
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<h2>If you’ve gotten really curious about what we have to offer:</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/demo/wordpress-2-8-6-eng/wordpress-2-8-6-eng-eng-eng/demo_wordpress-01/demo_wordpress_01.html" target="_self">Watch the Demo Movie</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/2009/12/04/the-wordpress-manual-table-of-contents" target="_self">View the Table of Contents page for the WordPress Manual</a></li>
<li>Sneak previews to full WordPress video tutorials:
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<li><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/displaymovie.php?movieid=MjQy&amp;manualid=NTc=" target="_blank">Basic Principles of WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/displaymovie.php?movieid=MjQ2&amp;manualid=NTc=" target="_blank">Writing Posts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/displaymovie.php?movieid=MjUw&amp;manualid=NTc=" target="_blank">Working with Comments</a></li>
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		<title>New service: Video-tutorials on demand.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video-tutorials are a great way to explain your software to your clients, or to give a product or company presentation. And we are really good at creating them. Good news: In addition to our own opensource video-tutorials, we now also make video-tutorials on demand. Read all about the Process, Specifications and Costs here, or view [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mf-logo-50x50.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-319" style="border: 0pt none;" title="mf-logo-50x50" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mf-logo-50x50.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="50" /></a>Video-tutorials are a great way to explain your software to your clients, or to give a product or company presentation. And we are really good at creating them.</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-351"></span>Good news: In addition to our own opensource video-tutorials, we now also make video-tutorials on demand.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/contents/videotutorialsondemand/97/" target="_blank">Read all about the Process, Specifications and Costs here, or view a demo movie first.</a></p>
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		<title>In the press: ManualsFountain reviewed by Linux Magazine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Brenno de Winter, of the Dutch Linux Magazine wrote a very favourable review of ManualsFountain.com&#8217;s video tutorials. A few quotes: &#8220;Video&#8217;s as source of knowledge&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;smooth presentations, that really make understanding easier&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;the pleasant video&#8217;s clearly have been created with a lot of attention&#8221; (Translations by ManualsFountain) Read the full article, as published in [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lin0906jubileumcover.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-342" title="lin0906jubileumcover" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lin0906jubileumcover.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="292" /></a> Journalist <a href="http://dewinter.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Brenno de Winter</strong></a>, of the Dutch <a href="http://www.linuxmag.nl/component/content/article/35-dit-nummer/359-in-dit-nummer.html" target="_blank"><strong>Linux Magazine</strong></a> wrote a very favourable review of ManualsFountain.com&#8217;s video tutorials.</p>
<h3>A few quotes:</h3>
<h2><em>&#8220;Video&#8217;s as source of knowledge&#8221;</em></h2>
<h2><em>&#8220;&#8230;smooth presentations, that really make understanding easier&#8221;</em></h2>
<h2><em>&#8220;&#8230;the pleasant video&#8217;s clearly have been created with a lot of attention&#8221;</em></h2>
<p>(Translations by ManualsFountain)</p>
<p>Read the full article, as published in the december 2009 issue of Linux Magazine (PDF, in Dutch): <strong><a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Linux_Magazine_review_of_MF.pdf" target="_blank">Linux_Magazine_review_of_MF</a></strong></p>
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		<title>WordPress manual (English) released!</title>
		<link>http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/2010/01/08/wordpress-manual-english-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just released the WordPress manual for end-users. The WordPress manual consists of 16 professional video tutorials, with an English voice-over and English subtitles. Later this month, we will publish the Dutch version, also with English voiceover, and subtitles in Dutch. The German, French and Spanish version will be released in Q1 of 2010, [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/images/software/wordpress_68x85.gif" alt="" width="68" height="85" />We have just released the WordPress manual for end-users. The WordPress manual consists of 16 professional video tutorials, with an English voice-over and English subtitles. Later this month, we will publish the Dutch version, also with English voiceover, and subtitles in Dutch.</p>
<p>The German, French and Spanish version will be released in Q1 of 2010, and more languages will follow after that.</p>
<h2>Curious to see what the manual has to offer?<img title="More..." src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" /></h2>
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or:</li>
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<li><strong>Sneak previews to full WordPress video tutorials</strong>:
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<li><a href="2010/01/08/wordpress-writing-posts-video-tutorial/">Writing Posts</a></li>
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<p>The German, French and Spanish version will be released in Q1 of 2010, and more languages will follow after that.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are proud to announce the soon to be released WordPress manual for end-users. The manual (all video tutorials) will be published with English voiceover, and subtitles in English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish. Release plan: We plan to release the different versions according to this repleaseplan: WordPress Manual, English version- december 10, 2009 (English [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/images/software/wordpress_68x85.gif" alt="" width="68" height="85" />We are proud to announce the soon to be released WordPress manual for end-users. The manual (all video tutorials) will be published with English voiceover, and subtitles in English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish.</p>
<h2>Release plan:<span id="more-184"></span></h2>
<p>We plan to release the different versions according to this repleaseplan:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress Manual, English version</strong>- december 10, 2009 (English voice-over, English subtitles)</li>
<li><strong>WordPress </strong><strong>Manual, Dutch version </strong>- december 15, 2009  (English voice-over, Dutch subtitles)</li>
<li><strong>WordPress</strong><strong> Manual, German version</strong> &#8211; january 2010 (English voice-over, German subtitles)</li>
<li><strong>WordPress</strong><strong> Manual, French version</strong> &#8211; january 2010 (English voice-over, French subtitles)</li>
<li><strong>WordPress</strong><strong> Manual, Spanish version</strong> &#8211; january 2010 (English voice-over, Spanish subtitles)</li>
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<li>A sneak preview to a full video tutorial, on Managing Content in WordPress (coming soon!)</li>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/images/software/wordpress_68x85.gif" alt="" width="68" height="85" /><strong>We offer the best Manual for WordPress,  the free blog publishing application and content management system.</strong><strong><br />
This manual offers excellent and professional video tutorials, helping end-users to work with WordPress.</strong></p>
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<h3>Basic principles [Free demo!]</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What is a Blog? | What is WordPress? | Features<strong><br />
Summary</strong>: Introduction to the basic principles of WordPress. What is WordPress, what are its uses and features and what can it do for YOU?</p>
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<h3>Interface</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Front End vs Back End | Main Navigation Menu | Themes<br />
<span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie you will learn about the front-end and back-end of WordPress. You will also see an overview of the main Navigation menu and an introduction to WordPress themes.</span></p>
<h3>Using the Dashboard</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Features | Using Quickpress | Incoming Links<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: The Dashboard is where almost everything happens in WordPress. In this movie you will learn how to use it to your advantage.</p>
<h3>Managing Roles and Users</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: User Roles | Managing Users | Adding a New User | Changing your Profile<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Your user role determines what you can and cannot do in WordPress. Watch this movie to learn all about user roles and your own personal profile.</p>
<h3>Writing Posts</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What is a Post? | Adding a New Post | Visibility and Passwords | Assigning Categories and Tags<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Posts are what a blog is all about. In this movie you will learn how to write and protect posts and how to assign them to categories and tags.</p>
<h3>Managing Posts</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Edit Posts View | Searching Posts | Filtering Posts by Date and Category | Deleting a Post<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Blogs can contain thousands of posts. After watching this movie you will be able to organize the posts in a blog.</p>
<h3>Formatting Text</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Editing Area | Visual or HTML| Formatting Text | SpellCheck | More Tag<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you&#8217;re learn how to make your posts look more attractive by using the editing area and much more.</p>
<h3>Copying and Pasting Text</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Cut, Copy and Paste | Paste as Plain Text | Paste from Word<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Cutting, copying an pasting can save heaps of time when composing a post or a page. Watch this movie to learn more.</p>
<h3>Working with Comments</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Adding Comments | Discussion Settings | Editing Comments<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Comments are what turns a blog into an interactive discussion forum. In this movie you&#8217;ll learn all about adding and editing comments and the settings for comments.</p>
<h3>Using Tags</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Adding a new Tag | Organizing Tags<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Tags are an important way to group and organize the posts in a blog. Watch this movie to learn more.</p>
<h3>Using Links</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What is the Blogroll? | Adding New Links | Managing Links | Using Link Categories<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Linking to other posts or other webpages is quite easy in WordPress. Watch this movie to learn all about links and the blogroll.</p>
<h3>Using the Media Library</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Organizing Media Files | Using the Flash Uploader | Using the Browser Uploader | Adding Media using the Media Library<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: The Media Library is a handy tool that you can use to upload, add and organize files. Watch this movie to learn more.</p>
<h3>Using Images and Videos</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Uploading Images | Using the Gallery | Editing Images | Inserting a Youtube Video<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Watch this movie if you want to learn all about uploading, adding and editing images and videos in WordPress.</p>
<h3>Using Pages</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What are Pages? | Adding a Page | Organizing your Pages<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Pages are an important part of all blogs. What are pages, how do you add them and how do you organize them? Watch this movie for all the answers.</p>
<h3>Using Categories</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Adding a Category | Managing Categories<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Categories allow you to group posts with similar content together. Watch this movie to see how to use them and how to manage them.</p>
<h3>Using Widgets</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What are Widgets? | Adding Widgets | Removing a Widget<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Widgets are WordPress plugins that allow you to change the content of your sidebar without using code. Watch this movie to learn more.</p>
<h3>More Sources for Help</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Features Overview | Download and Installation | License Information | Tutorials and Demos | FAQ | Support Forum | Terminology | Additional Resources<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This section of the manual contains links, references and additional help information. Refer to these helpful resources for quick references or a printable PDF guide.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Ezine Articles, Daniel Morel gives an excellent list of reasons why using WordPress for your business website is a good idea. His top 10 provides valuable arguments Internet agencies can use to convince their clients that WordPress is the right choice. A summary of the arguments below: WordPress is free. WordPress was created for [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="../../images/software/wordpress_68x85.gif" alt="" width="68" height="85" />On <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/" target="_blank">Ezine Articles</a>, <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Daniel_Morel">Daniel Morel</a> gives an excellent list of reasons why using WordPress for your business website is a good idea.</p>
<p>His top 10 provides valuable arguments Internet agencies can use to convince their clients that WordPress is the right choice.</p>
<h2><span id="more-166"></span>A summary of the arguments below:</h2>
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<li>WordPress is free.</li>
<li>WordPress was created for end-users.</li>
<li>Publishing content is very easy.</li>
<li>WordPress websites are fast and fully searchable.</li>
<li>WordPress combines static pages with blog posts.</li>
<li>There are a lot of WordPress templates available.</li>
<li>Your WordPress can be any size, large or small.</li>
<li>There are many, many plugins and widgets available.</li>
<li>You can edit your WordPress website from anywhere in the world.</li>
<li>Backupping your data is easy.</li>
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<h2><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-10-Reasons-to-Use-WordPress-For-Your-Business-Website&amp;id=2953968" target="_blank">Read the full article here</a>.</h2>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan Stedehouder, Open source journalist, wrote a great article on support of end-users of open source applications. In the Article, ManualsFountain is also mentioned and reviewed. The part about us below (in Dutch). Full article below that, and also here: Hoe kunnen we nieuwe FOSS gebruikers beter ondersteunen? [...] Een ander alternatief wordt bijvoorbeeld geboden [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/2009/11/28/hoe-kunnen-we-nieuwe-foss-gebruikers-beter-ondersteunen/" target="_blank">Jan Stedehouder</a>, Open source journalist, wrote a great article on support of end-users of open source applications. In the Article, ManualsFountain is also mentioned and reviewed.</p>
<p>The part about us below (<em>in Dutch</em>). Full article below that, and also <a href="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/2009/11/28/hoe-kunnen-we-nieuwe-foss-gebruikers-beter-ondersteunen/" target="_blank">here</a>:</p>
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<h2>Hoe kunnen we nieuwe FOSS gebruikers beter ondersteunen?</h2>
<p>[...] Een ander alternatief wordt bijvoorbeeld geboden door <a href="../../">Manuals Fountain</a>. Dit project is een initiatief van <a href="http://www.open20.nl/elgg/pg/profile/themanualizer">Marc Barteling</a> Het uitgangspunt van Marc en Manuals Fountain is eenvoudig: de acceptatie van vrije en open source software wordt gehinderd door het ontbreken van goede instructiematerialen voor niet-technische gebruikers. Met zo’n uitgangspunt krijg je mij al snel enthousiast en als je dan vervolgens duidelijk maakt dat die instructiematerialen multimediaal zijn, gaan bij mij de handen op elkaar.</p>
<p>Manuals Fountain ontwikkelt hoogwaardige, online cursussen waarbij via videolessen uitleg wordt gegeven over het gebruik van open source software. Dat zijn gestructureerde lessen, met een herkenbaar lessenplan. Het initiatief is internationaal georiënteerd en dat betekent dat de cursussen in meerdere talen beschikbaar zijn/komen. Het gebruik van de lessen is niet gratis. Zo kost de training voor Mediawiki € 69,95 per jaar (ex BTW), waarbij je dan wel 10 gebruikers van het materiaal gebruik mag laten maken. Het is misschien even wennen voor de FOSS-wereld (’gratis’ was toch het sleutelwoord? Nee dus), maar voor een normale zakelijke markt is dit uitermate aantrekkelijk.</p>
<p>Manuals Fountain is nu iets meer dan een half jaar in de lucht. Een deel van de winst wordt teruggeschonken aan de open source applicaties waar de online cursus betrekking op heeft. [...]</p></blockquote>
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<h1>Hoe kunnen we nieuwe FOSS gebruikers beter ondersteunen?</h1>
<div><span>Posted in 28/11/2009 ¬ 09:30h.</span><span>jan</span><a title="Comment on Hoe kunnen we nieuwe FOSS gebruikers beter ondersteunen?" href="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/2009/11/28/hoe-kunnen-we-nieuwe-foss-gebruikers-beter-ondersteunen/#comments"><span>1 Comment »</span></a></div>
<p>Recentelijk kon ik bij Capgemini een <a href="http://www.opensourcelearning.info/portaal/index.php?option=com_docman&amp;task=doc_download&amp;gid=29&amp;Itemid=119">presentatie</a> (<a href="http://www.xmind.net/">xmind</a> mindmap) geven over communicatie en samenwerking in vrije en open source projecten. Het was een goede gelegenheid mijn gedachten over geschikte communicatiemiddelen voor beginnende gebruikers van vrije en open source software verder vorm te geven. Mijn uitgangspunt is het concept van digitale geletterdheid en daarbij ben ik erg gecharmeerd van de <a href="http://www.nae.edu/nae/techlithome.nsf/">omschrijving</a> die de National Academy of Engineering hanteert. Op de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_literacy">Wikipedia</a> vind je een soortgelijke omschrijving. Voor mijzelf heb ik het teruggebracht tot de vraag over welke vaardigheden, welk niveau van digitale geletterdheid moet een nieuwe gebruiker beschikken om zinvol gebruik te kunnen maken van de aangeboden tools voor communicatie en support? In de presentatie onderscheidde ik verschillende generaties gebruikers, ieder met eigen tools.</p>
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<p>Ik wil me verder beperken tot vrije en open source gemeenschappen die zich richten op het bijeenbrengen, motiveren en ondersteunen van eindgebruikers (de derde generatie uit het schema). Mijns inziens zijn dat voornamelijk mensen die hun computer en de software gebruiken om taken te vervullen. Het zijn geen hobbyisten (al kan een deel van hun werk wel dat karakter hebben, bijvoorbeeld fotobewerking), ze zijn niet direct geïnteresseerd in wat er onder de motorkap gebeurd en zijn vooral blij als het allemaal gewoon werkt. 95% kans dat hun enige ervaring bestaat uit het werken met Windows, Microsoft Office en een collectie specifieke applicaties. Is dit een interessante doelgroep voor vrije en open source? Ik denk het wel want het zijn bijvoorbeeld de kopers van mijn boeken over Ubuntu. Hoe meer Linux en open source in de reguliere computertijdschriften terecht komt, des te vaker zullen gebruikers uit deze groep het sprongetje wagen. Daarnaast is het ook in Nederland een kwestie van tijd voordat we grootschalige migraties naar open source werkplekken gaan zien. En dan hebben we te maken met nieuwe gebruikers die daar in eerste instantie zeker niet zelf voor hebben gekozen.</p>
<p><strong>Is er support voor deze nieuwe gebruikers?</strong></p>
<p>Wij, als early adopters in de FOSS wereld, zijn erg enthousiast over onze communities. Enthousiaste, gedreven én deskundige vrijwilligers staan klaar om de nodige ondersteuning en uitleg te geven. De Ubuntu gemeenschap in Nederland is met 18.000 ingeschreven leden erg actief. We vinden daar een team dat erg hard werkt bij de ondersteuning, motivatie en promotie van Ubuntu. Bijna 2.900 ingeschrevenen heeft meer dan 10 berichten op het forum geplaatst. Dat is ongeveer 16% en daarmee steekt Ubuntu-NL gunstig af bij andere gemeenschappen die ik in de loop der jaren heb gezien. Op het forum staan ruim 514.000 berichten. De <a style="opacity: 1;" href="http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/index.php?action=mlist;sort=posts;start=0">top tien</a> van meest actieve gebruikers is samen goed voor bijna 98.000 berichten. De tien daaropvolgende gebruikers brengen gezamenlijk net geen 53.000 berichten in. Even omgerekend: 20 gebruikers zijn goed voor pakweg 34% van de ondersteuning. Er wordt hard gewerkt aan het actueel houden van de wiki, maar volgens mij is de bron waar het meest naar verwezen wordt de <a style="opacity: 1;" href="http://sites.google.com/site/computertip/">webpagina’s</a> van het lid Pjotr.</p>
<p>Wat zeggen deze cijfers? Enerzijds onderschrijven ze de energie die FOSS-enthousiastelingen vrijwillig en kosteloos beschikbaar stellen voor het helpen van anderen. Ubuntu-NL heeft geen 18.000 potentiële vrijwilligers. Online mag je wellicht spreken over ongeveer 100 personen die snel en inhoudelijk adequaat kunnen en zullen reageren. Dat is een heel mooi aantal, er zijn bedrijven die zich in de handen wrijven met zulke getallen.</p>
<p>Ze laten mijns inziens ook wel de grenzen zien die met het huidige model van ondersteuning verbonden zijn. Een forum met 514.000 berichten is simpelweg onoverzichtelijk voor nieuwe gebruikers. Je loopt het risico dat eerder beantwoorde vragen keer op keer opnieuw gesteld gaan worden. Nieuwe gebruikers worden vriendelijk (gelukkig maar) gewezen op de zoekfunctie, en daar zit het volgende probleem. Relatief grote groepen nieuwe gebruikers beschikt niet over de nodige vaardigheden om van die functie gebruik te maken. Als ze al zoekresultaten weten te genereren, dan is het de vraag of ze uit de brij het juiste antwoord kunnen halen. Immers, alle berichten zijn voor de zoekfunctie gelijk, er is geen waardering van de kwaliteit van de geboden oplossing.</p>
<p>We verwijzen in zulke gevallen ook graag naar wikipagina’s en ook daar kunnen we waardering hebben voor het vele werk dat wordt verricht. Pagina’s worden aangemaakt, bediscussieerd, verbeterd en vervangen. Het nadeel is dat het internet (en dan heb ik het even over meer dan alleen Ubuntu-NL) vol staat met oude wikipagina’s, opgesteld voor oudere versies, met mooi uitgewerkte oplossingen maar compleet niet meer geschikt voor de versie waarmee onze nieuwe gebruiker aan de slag gaat. We mogen Google de schuld geven voor dit probleem. Als gemeenschap mag je de pagina’s wel verwijderen uit de menu’s en verwijzingen, de oorspronkelijke pagina’s laten we graag staan en duiken vervolgens op in de zoekresultaten. Dit probleem heeft een paar andere ’schuldigen’, namelijk wijzelf (omdat we onvoldoende aangeven voor welke versie de oplossingen geschikt zijn en of een pagina niet langer actueel is) en de zoeker naar een oplossing (omdat deze onvoldoende specifieke zoektermen heeft ingegeven).</p>
<p>Begrijp me niet verkeerd, dit is geen kritiek op het harde werk van de gemeenschappen. Maar als ik kijk naar de derde generatie gebruikers dan trek ik al een tijdje de conclusie dat tools als wiki’s en forums een hoger niveau van digitale geletterdheid vereisen dan waarover de nieuwe groep gebruikers beschikt.</p>
<p><strong>Zijn er alternatieven?</strong></p>
<p>In hoofdlijnen denk ik dat het gebruik van learning management systemen (LMS) een prima oplossing is voor de behoeften van de derde generatie gebruikers. Met een LMS kun je gestructureerde lessen aanbieden in combinatie met interactie. Er zijn verschillende open source systemen beschikbaar, zoals <a href="http://moodle.org/">Moodle</a>, <a style="opacity: 1;" href="http://www.dokeos.com/">Dokeos</a> en <a href="http://sakaiproject.org/">Sakai</a>. Waarom zouden vrije en open source gemeenschappen met learning management systemen aan de slag moeten?</p>
<p>Zijn pagina’s als die van <a style="opacity: 1;" href="http://sites.google.com/site/computertip/">Pjotr</a> niet afdoende? Mijn antwoord is ontkennend. Zijn pagina’s zijn volledig up-to-date en het is bijzonder te zien hoe snel hij dit voor elkaar krijgt bij iedere nieuwe vrijgave. En, ook niet onbelangrijk, zijn hulp is stap-voor-stap uitgewerkt en heeft dus een makkelijk te volgen structuur. De beperking zit ‘m in het gebrek aan mogelijke interactie, de leerling kan geen vragen stellen. Daarvoor moet deze weer naar het forum en komen de eerder genoemde bezwaren weer om de hoek kijken. Een LMS geeft meer mogelijkheden voor directe interactie binnen het platform. Door daar de juiste mensen aan vast te koppelen heb je gelijk een borging voor de kwaliteit van de antwoorden.</p>
<p>Het nadeel is wel dat ook een LMS een niveau van digitale geletterdheid vraagt bij de nieuwe gebruikers, maar dat is lager dan bij het gebruik van forums of wiki’s. Het idee van gestructureerde lessen is herkenbaar voor gebruikers en als wij de lessen goed genoeg inrichten wordt de drempel voor gebruik weer lager. Daarnaast kun je in een LMS prima lessen aanbieden voor gebruikers van verschillende niveaus.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/manual_logo.jpg"><img title="manual_logo" src="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/manual_logo-150x150.jpg" alt="manual_logo" width="150" height="150" /></a>Een ander alternatief wordt bijvoorbeeld geboden door <a href="../../">Manuals Fountain</a>. Dit project is een initiatief van <a href="http://www.open20.nl/elgg/pg/profile/themanualizer">Marc Barteling</a> Het uitgangspunt van Marc en Manuals Fountain is eenvoudig: de acceptatie van vrije en open source software wordt gehinderd door het ontbreken van goede instructiematerialen voor niet-technische gebruikers. Met zo’n uitgangspunt krijg je mij al snel enthousiast en als je dan vervolgens duidelijk maakt dat die instructiematerialen multimediaal zijn, gaan bij mij de handen op elkaar.</p>
<p>Manuals Fountain ontwikkelt hoogwaardige, online cursussen waarbij via videolessen uitleg wordt gegeven over het gebruik van open source software. Dat zijn gestructureerde lessen, met een herkenbaar lessenplan. Het initiatief is internationaal georiënteerd en dat betekent dat de cursussen in meerdere talen beschikbaar zijn/komen. Het gebruik van de lessen is niet gratis. Zo kost de training voor Mediawiki € 69,95 per jaar (ex BTW), waarbij je dan wel 10 gebruikers van het materiaal gebruik mag laten maken. Het is misschien even wennen voor de FOSS-wereld (’gratis’ was toch het sleutelwoord? Nee dus), maar voor een normale zakelijke markt is dit uitermate aantrekkelijk.</p>
<p>Manuals Fountain is nu iets meer dan een half jaar in de lucht. Een deel van de winst wordt teruggeschonken aan de open source applicaties waar de online cursus betrekking op heeft.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/manuals_banner_right.jpg"><img style="vertical-align: middle;" title="manuals_banner_right" src="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/manuals_banner_right-300x77.jpg" alt="manuals_banner_right" width="300" height="77" /></a></p>
<p>De combinatie van beide lijkt mij zeer geschikt bij de ondersteuning van migratietrajecten. Je kan al vroeg in het migratietraject een LMS site opzetten voor het eigen bedrijf en de lessen aanbieden aan de medewerkers. Een combinatie van praktische oefeningen (uit te voeren in virtuele machines bijvoorbeedl) gecombineerd met videolessen en interactie met medecursisten en goede docenten doet veel om knelpunten en weerstanden weg te nemen. Die lessen blijven beschikbaar voor toekomstige nieuwe medewerkers.</p>
<p>Een van de aanbiedingen die op mijn lijstje staan is de <a style="opacity: 1;" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/training/e-learning/desktop">Ubuntu Desktop Course</a>. Dit is een online training gericht op beginnende gebruikers. Ook deze cursus is niet gratis, maar 50 dollar is -met de huidige wisselkoers- ook niet echt een rib uit het lijf.</p>
<p><a style="opacity: 1;" href="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ubuntudesktopcourse.png"><img title="ubuntudesktopcourse" src="http://www.janstedehouder.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ubuntudesktopcourse-300x206.png" alt="ubuntudesktopcourse" width="300" height="206" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Interactieve hulp op de desktop</strong></p>
<p>Het gebruik van LMS is een mooie stap voorwaarts. Het geeft gebruikers de kans in eigen tempo om te leren gaan met vrije en open source software. We kunnen het niveau van digitale geletterdheid gestructureerd opbouwen. Maar ook een LMS heeft nadelen. Dezelfde nadelen die het volgen van face-to-face trainingen heeft: de stof wordt binnen de cursus aangeboden, maar in veel gevallen zit er een gat tussen het aanleren van de vaardigheden en het daadwerkelijke gebruik ervan. “Hoe zat dat ook al weer?”, waarna de gebruiker op zoek kan naar lesboek, aantekeningen of de les in het LMS.</p>
<p>De ideale oplossing lijkt mij het aanbieden van de instructie op het moment dat de gebruiker dit nodig heeft en daarom vraagt. Maar dan moet je de hulpfunctie integreren in de grafische werkomgeving. Nu heb je al een tekstgebaseerde hulpfunctie maar die hulp is onvoldoende voor beginnende nieuwe gebruikers en biedt weinig interactie. Het zou mooi zijn als een gebruiker bij de eerste in gebruikname kan aangeven op hoeveel ervaring hij/zij heeft met de nieuwe werkplek (of later, voor het specifieke programma) en dat vervolgens de grafische interface wordt aangepast aan dat niveau. Een beginnende gebruiker van OpenOffice.org heeft wellicht geen behoefte om direct alle functies en opties te zien, maar het moet wel eenvoudig zijn om die zichtbaar te maken. De ideale desktop ‘denkt mee’, als een AI, herkent de groei in vaardigheden van de gebruiker en past vervolgens het aanbod van ondersteuning en uitgebreidere lessen aan. Die lessen zijn interactief, multimediaal en heel gericht op de taak waarmee de gebruiker bezig is. Nee, geen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant">Clippy</a> voor de open source werkplek maar een intelligent trainingshulpmiddel voor beginnende gebruikers.</p>
<p>In eerste instantie zal een nieuwe gebruiker minder effectief, minder snel zijn, maar voor bedrijven en organisaties heeft dit model bij migraties wel voordelen. Je bent geen groepen medewerkers kwijt aan meerdaagse trainingen, het vermindert de noodzaak van personele ondersteuning op de werkvloer en de aangeleerde vaardigheden worden gelijk gebruikt (waarmee ze langer blijven hangen).</p>
<p>De bovengenoemde ideale desktop is prima uit te breiden met personele ondersteuning. Daar wordt al hard aan gewerkt in het KDE project via het concept van de <a href="http://www.transparantezaken.nl/portaal/open-community-nieuws/op-weg-naar-nluug-the-open-web-2">sociale desktop</a>. Als bedrijf, organisatie of gemeenschap kun je groepen gebruikers aanwijzen die vanaf hun eigen werkplek vraaggericht antwoorden kunnen geven voor onderdelen die niet worden afgedekt door het intelligente trainingsprogramma. De al in ontwikkeling zijnde tools hebben veel weg van MSN/Skype en zijn herkenbaarder voor beginnende gebruikers dan bijvoorbeeld IRC.</p>
<p><strong>Ten slotte</strong></p>
<p>De intelligente, in de desktop geïntegreerde trainer is er nog niet. Maar vrije en open source gemeenschappen die zich richten op de ondersteuning van eindgebruikers doen er goed aan na te denken over het gebruik van learning management systemen. De deskundigheid is in huis, het is eerder een kwestie van andere vormgeving van het hulpaanbod. Doe dat goed en je vermindert de druk op de vrijwillige moderatoren in het forum en op het IRC kanaaal. Het maken van multimediale instructiefilmpjes is met de beschikbare vrije en open source tools niet ingewikkeld meer. Recentelijk heb ik nog een <a style="opacity: 1;" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138295/Instructie%20v3.tar.gz">heel basaal setje filmpjes</a> gemaakt voor het Go4Africa/Ubuntu-NL project. De sociale desktop is al volop in ontwikkeling en het zou mooi zijn als de gemeenschappen dat communicatiekanaal toevoegen aan hun bestaande aanbod. Dit zijn twee betrekkelijk eenvoudige stappen waarmee je als gemeenschap serieus bijdraagt aan het vereenvoudigen van de overstap naar open source werkplekken.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/images/software/joomla_68x85.gif" alt="" width="68" height="85" />We are proud to announce the soon to be released Joomla manual for end-users. The manual (all video tutorials) will be published with English voiceover, and subtitles in English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish.</p>
<h2>Release plan:<span id="more-140"></span></h2>
<p>We plan to release the different versions according to this repleaseplan:</p>
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<li><strong>Joomla! Manual, English version</strong>- december 10, 2009 (English voice-over, English subtitles)</li>
<li><strong>Joomla! Manual, Dutch version </strong>- december 15, 2009  (English voice-over, Dutch subtitles)</li>
<li><strong>Joomla! Manual, German version</strong> &#8211; january 2010 (English voice-over, German subtitles)</li>
<li><strong>Joomla! Manual, French version</strong> &#8211; january 2010 (English voice-over, French subtitles)</li>
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<li><a href="2009/11/25/managing-content-in-joomla/">A sneak preview to a full video tutorial, on Managing Content in Joomla</a> (13:53 min)</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June 2009, we were proud to announce that we had just released our first manual: MediaWiki, in English. Soon thereafter followed the Dutch, French, German and Spanish versions. The manual offers about 45 minutes of How-to movies, and helps the end-user to get started, format texts, make links, add content, search, manage contributors, and [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/images/software/mediawikilogo_68x85.jpg" alt="" width="68" height="85" />In June 2009, we were proud to announce that we had just released our first manual: MediaWiki, in English. Soon thereafter followed the Dutch, French, German and Spanish versions.</p>
<p>The manual offers about 45 minutes of How-to movies, and helps the end-user to get started, format texts, make links, add content, search, manage contributors, and much more.</p>
<h3>And what is MediaWiki in the first place?<span id="more-137"></span></h3>
<p>MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects.</p>
<h3>To the manual!</h3>
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<p><strong>ManualsFountain.com produces the best manuals for end-users of popular Open-Source software.That means for you, or for your clients. All manuals are video tutorials, with English voice-over and subtitled in English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish.</strong></p>
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<h2><span id="more-113"></span><img title="More..." src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/blog/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" />We will focus on these aspects:</h2>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/images/software/joomla_68x85.gif" alt="" width="68" height="85" />As an addition to our Manual for Joomla!, we will review relevant Joomla plugins here.</p>
<h2><span id="more-111"></span>We will focus on these aspects:</h2>
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<li>What does this plugin do?</li>
<li>What&#8217;s the use of it for you?</li>
<li>And we&#8217;ll create a short video tutorial, to give you an overview of the main features of the plugin.</li>
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<h2>Our Joomla Plugin reviews will help:</h2>
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<li>Internet agencies in advising their clients on these plugins, and</li>
<li>End-users of Joomla to get a quick grasp of these plugins.</li>
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<p>All in our quest to help end-users get the most out of their open source applications.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[We offer the best Manual for Joomla!, the easy-to-use Content Management System, used to create and maintain websites. This manual offers excellent and professional video tutorials, helping end-users to work with Joomla. Our Joomla Manual offers video tutorials on: Introduction Basic principles [Free demo!] Topics: What is Joomla? &#124; Features Summary: Introduction to the basic [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.manualsfountain.com/images/software/joomla_68x85.gif" alt="" width="68" height="85" />We offer the best Manual for Joomla!, the easy-to-use Content Management System, used to create and maintain websites.<br />
This manual offers excellent and professional video tutorials, helping end-users to work with Joomla.</strong></p>
<h2>Our Joomla Manual offers video tutorials on:<span id="more-100"></span></h2>
<h3><span style="color: #3366ff;">Introduction</span></h3>
<h3>Basic principles [Free demo!]</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What is Joomla? | Features<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: Introduction to the basic principles of Joomla!.  What IS Joomla!, what are its uses, and how can you benefit from using it.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #3366ff;">Getting around<br />
</span></h3>
<h3>Interface</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Front End vs. Back End | Pre-Installed Templates | Navigation | Control Panel<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn about the front and back-end of Joomla!, templates, navigation and control panel functions. This will help you feel comfortable in the Joomla! environment.</p>
<h3>Managing Users</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What is the User Manager? | Types of Users | Adding Users | Front-end Login | Back-end Login | Resetting Passwords<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will explain the different types of users, how to add users, how to login on the front-end vs. back-end, and how to reset passwords.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #3366ff;">Editing content<br />
</span></h3>
<h3>Managing Content [Free demo!]</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Managing Your Front Page | Managing Your Articles | Adding Articles | Removing Articles<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to manage your front page as well as add, remove and manage the artices for your website.</p>
<h3>Formatting</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Accessing the Editing Area | Using Toolbars and Buttons | Formatting Text | Changing Your Styles | Horizontal Line | Pagebreaks | Read More<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will show you how to access the editing area, format text and use the editor toolbars and buttons. In addition, you will learn how about styles, horizontal lines, page breaks and read more links.</p>
<h3>Copying and Pasting Text</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Cut, Copy and Paste | Paste as Plain Text | Paste from Word<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to cut, copy and paste text within an article using the editor. You will also learn how to use additional paste options, including pasting plain text and pasting text from Microsoft Word.</p>
<h3>Using Tables and Lists</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Inserting Tables | Modifying Table Layout | Inserting Lists<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to insert tables, as well as bulleted and numbered lists in your articles using the editor. You will also learn how to modify table layout including formatting tables and changing table properties.</p>
<h3>Creating Links</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Links to Other Webpages | Links to Email Addresses | Internal Links-Same Page<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie shows you how to insert links within your articles to navigate to other webpages in your site, other websites, or email addresses.</p>
<h3>Inserting Images</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Adding Images | Editing Image Properties<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to insert images in your articles as well as edit image properties including width, height, border, spacing and alignment.</p>
<h3>Viewing Source Code</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: How to View Source Code | Editing Source Code<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will show you how to view and edit HTML source code.</p>
<h3>Using Other Tools</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Locked Items | Global Check-in |<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to identify items which are locked for editing, or &#8220;checked out&#8221;. In addition, you will see how to use the Global Check-in process to unlock items.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #3366ff;">Organizing Content</span></h3>
<h3>Using Sections</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What are Sections? | Section Manager | Adding a Section |<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will explain what sections are, and show you how to add or edit sections by using the Section Manager.</p>
<h3>Using Categories</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What are Categories? | Category Manager | Adding a Category<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will explain what categories are, and show you how to add or edit categories by using the Category Manager.</p>
<h3>Changing Your Menus</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Menu Manager | Adding Menu Items | Deleting Menu Items<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to customize all the menus on your website, including adding and deleting menus and editing system parameters for menus.</p>
<h3>Media Manager</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Creating a Folder | Uploading an Image | Deleting an Image<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In the movie, you will learn how to use the Media Manager to upload, organize and delete images for use on your website.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #3366ff;">Using Components</span></h3>
<h3>Banners</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Managing Banners | Banner Module Parameters | Adding Banners | Testing Your Banner | Modifying Your Banner<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will show you how to use the Banner Manager to add and modify banner, and edit banner module parameters.</p>
<h3>News Feeds</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: Managing News Feeds | Modifying Newsfeed Links<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will show you how to manage your news feeds and modify news feed links for your website.</p>
<h3>Polls</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What are Polls? | Adding a Poll | Placing a Poll on Your Site | Modifying Your Poll<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to place a poll on your website to learn more about your visitors, including adding a poll, modifying a poll and testing a poll on your site.</p>
<h3>Web Links</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What are Web Links? | Managing Web Links | Web Link Categories | Adding Web Links | Testing Your Web Links | Modifying Your Web Links<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will explain how to use and manage web links on your website&#8217;s menus. You will learn how to add, modify and test web links.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #3366ff;">Using Extensions</span></h3>
<h3>Newsflash</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What is a Newsflash? | Newsflash Articles<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: In this movie, you will learn how to use newsflash articles to post announcements and news on your website.</p>
<h3>Plug-Ins</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What are Plug-ins? | Managing Plugins<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will explain what plugins are, and how to use them on your website to expand the capabililites of your site.</p>
<h3>Languages</h3>
<p><strong>Topics</strong>: What Languages are Available? | Adding Languages | More About Languages<br />
<strong>Summary</strong>: This movie will discuss language availability, how to add languages and how to change the default front-end language for your website.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #3366ff;">Additional Reference</span></h3>
<h3>More Sources for Help</h3>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: This is a PDF, not a movie. This section of the manual includes links, references and additional help information. Refer to these helpful resources for quick reference or for printable PDF guide.</p>
<h3>User Comparison Chart</h3>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: This is a PDF, not a movie. This section of the manual includes User Comparison Chart to compare access levels and roles for usage.</p>
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<p>Ken je me nog? Marc, voorheen van jullie webburo Tiez.<br />
Hoe is t? Nog steeds vol te houden met de mannen daar?</p>
<p>Ik heb een vraagje: ik heb een meeting gehad en ga misschien zaken doen met Andric van Es. Hij zat vroeger bij YER en is een linkedin contact van jou.</p>
<p>Ik zou je graag even bellen morgen, om te horen wat jij van hem vindt.<br />
Is dat goed? Alles vertrouwelijk uiteraard.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a free Joomla video-tutorial by ManualsFountain.com. This movie is a compilation of some video tutorials from our Joomla Manual, and will give you an excellent impression of what we have to offer. For more Joomla video-tutorials, visit www.manualsfountain.com. Related posts:Managing Content in Joomla (video-tutorial)Joomla manual (English) released!Basic Principles of WordPress (video-tutorial)


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<p>This movie is a compilation of some video tutorials from our Joomla Manual, and will give you an excellent impression of what we have to offer. For more Joomla video-tutorials, visit <a href="http://www.manualsfountain.com" target="_blank">www.manualsfountain.com</a>.</p>
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<h3>1. Basic principles MediaWiki [Free demo!]</h3>
<p>Watch this movie if you&#8217;d like to know what MediaWiki is, what it does and what it can do for you. (03:36 min)</p>
<h3>2. Interface MediaWiki</h3>
<p><strong> </strong>Using the interface of a Wiki in the right way will help you quickly find, edit and add information.<br />
Topics: sidebar | page tabs | user links (03:42 min)</p>
<p><strong>3. Changing your preferences<br />
</strong>This movie will teach you how to create a new account, and change various settings.<br />
Topics: create account | change password | email functions (03:52 min)</p>
<h3>4. Searching [Free demo!]</h3>
<p>Wiki&#8217;s can contain a lot of information. Luckily there are different ways to conduct a smart search.<br />
Topics: go | search | special search page (02:41 min)</p>
<h3>5. Editing your pages</h3>
<p>Editing a page in a Wiki is not difficult. But it is important that you do it correctly and that other users can track your changes.<br />
Topics: changing a page | edit summary | preview a page | save page | recent changes (02:31 min)</p>
<h3>6. Organizing your pages</h3>
<p>Wiki&#8217;s can contain a lot of information. Therefore, it is vital that the information is organized well, on a page and within the Wiki.<br />
Topics: sections | table of contents | categories (03:43 min)</p>
<h3>7. Making your pages look good</h3>
<p>In this movie you will learn how to make your pages look better so that they really stand out.<br />
Topics: text style | new paragraph | bulleted lists | horizontal lines (02:46 min)</p>
<h3>8. Creating a new page [Free demo!]</h3>
<p>One of the main features of a Wiki is that everyone can contribute. And if you want to add a new page, there are different ways to do that.<br />
Topics: using WikiLinks | from the searchpage | using an URL (04:08 min)</p>
<h3>9. Making redirects</h3>
<p>By using redirects, you can make sure that users of a Wiki always find what they are looking for. Even if they misspell a word or if an entry exists under different names.<br />
Topics: making a redirect | viewing a redirect | changing a redirect (03:30 min)</p>
<h3>10. Using internal links</h3>
<p>Linking to other pages within the Wiki allows you to show how pages are related.<br />
Topics: internal links | different label | links to anchors | links to images (04:01 min)</p>
<h3>11. Using external links</h3>
<p>Linking to pages outside the Wiki adds a lot of value, if it&#8217;s done properly. Luckily, the syntax for creating external links isn&#8217;t that difficult.<br />
Topics: using external links | different label | numbered links | mailto links<br />
(04:01 min)</p>
<h3>12. Using images</h3>
<p>After watching this movie you will know how to upload images and how to use them in a Wiki.<br />
Topics: uploading an image | format | alignment | size (03:55 min)</p>
<h3>13. Moving a page [Free demo!]</h3>
<p>Page names are important in a Wiki. By moving a page you can give a page a new name, for example if the scope of a page has changed.<br />
Topics: moving a page | undoing a move | recent changes (03:02 min)</p>
<h3>14. More sources for help</h3>
<p>In this PDF, you will find useful links to other sources of help.</p>
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