Content Management System (CMS) Training in Swansea

Drupal 10 is a powerful open-source content management system used to build and manage dynamic websites and applications.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level web administrators, content managers, and developers who wish to learn how to build, manage, and customize websites using Drupal 10.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Drupal’s ecosystem, features, and user interface.
• Build and configure sites with content types, fields, and navigation.
• Manage content using taxonomies and media tools.
• Set up users, roles, permissions, and content workflows.
• Install and configure modules, themes, and site settings.
• Apply basic theming and optimization best practices.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

• To request a customised training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level website administrators who wish to efficiently manage a Backdrop CMS website without needing extensive coding knowledge.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install, configure, and maintain a Backdrop CMS website.
• Manage content, users, and permissions effectively.
• Customize the website layout and appearance.
• Extend website functionality using modules and themes.
• Perform backups and security best practices.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to build, extend, and customize websites using Backdrop CMS.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Backdrop CMS.
• Develop and customize themes.
• Build custom modules to extend functionality.
• Integrate third-party APIs and services.
• Manage databases and optimise performance.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level web content managers who wish to update content, manage menus, work with taxonomy, and upload PDFs or images in Drupal.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the Drupal interface and understand key features.
• Create and manage menus to improve site navigation.
• Use taxonomy to categorize and organize content effectively.
• Upload and manage PDFs, images, and other media files.
• Edit and publish basic content pages for the library website.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level participants who wish to understand the fundamentals of Drupal 11 and learn how to build, manage, and customize websites using its features.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal 11 on local or cloud environments.
• Create and manage content using the Drupal interface.
• Customize the appearance of websites with themes.
• Extend website functionality with modules and plugins.
• Understand user roles, permissions, and site security basics.
• Deploy and maintain Drupal 11 websites effectively.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level content managers who wish to learn the essential concepts, tools, and best practices for managing content using a Content Management System (CMS).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the key features and components of popular CMS platforms.
• Create, edit, and publish content using a CMS.
• Implement SEO best practices within CMS for better search engine ranking.
• Manage user roles and permissions for collaboration within the CMS.
• Integrate multimedia elements (images, videos, etc.) effectively within content.
• Troubleshoot basic CMS issues and understand CMS security practices.
• Utilize analytics tools to measure content performance.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at sys admins who wish to set up and manage a Drupal 11 website.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal 11.
• Deploy, test and monitor a Drupal 11 website.
• Set up and manage users.
• Secure a Drupal 11 website.
• Optimize the performance of a Drupal 11 website.
• Perform scheduled backups.
• Deploy multiple versions of a Drupal 11 website (multilingual, mobile, etc.).

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Contentful to update a website or mobile app content.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up a Contentful account.
• Manage web and mobile application content in Contentful.
• Learn how to manage and update web or mobile application content.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to master Drupal 10, focusing on custom module creation, development practices, and integrating DevOps processes using Azure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core functionalities and new features of Drupal 10.
• Develop custom modules tailored to business needs.
• Implement best practices in Drupal development.
• Configure and manage development environments using Azure services.
• Automate deployment and scaling using Azure DevOps tools.

LMS (Learning Management System) platforms are widely used in educational, corporate, and government settings to manage, deliver, and track digital training and learning experiences.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to gain certification-level skills in managing, administering, and optimizing an LMS platform to support learning and development programs.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up and configure a learning management system for their organization.
• Enroll users, assign roles, and manage access permissions.
• Create, organize, and monitor courses and learning paths.
• Generate reports and track learner progress and performance.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

• To request a customised training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level web developers, web designers and WordPress administrators who wish to learn how to install, administer, and optimise WordPress sites, enabling them to create and manage professional and responsive websites.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of WordPress and its features and benefits.
• Install and configure WordPress on a web server.
• Use plugins, servers, and templates to improve WordPress functionality and performance.
• Create and manage custom post types in WordPress.
• Create WordPress sites at basic, medium, and advanced level.
• Use Elementor to design and customize WordPress sites.
• Implement site map and breadcrumbs for WordPress sites.
• Apply good practices in web and responsive design for WordPress sites.
• Optimize WordPress sites for SEO and Google Analytics.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at sys admins who wish to set up and manage a Drupal 8 website.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal 8.
• Deploy, test and monitor a Drupal 8 website.
• Set up and manage users.
• Secure a Drupal 8 website.
• Optimize the performance of a Drupal 8 website.
• Perform scheduled backups.
• Deploy multiple versions of a Drupal 8 website (multilingual, mobile, etc.).

Drupal remains the most reliable and secure CMS, and with the release of Drupal 9, it is even more powerful for site builders and ambitious developers who are looking to build their websites on top of it.

Is Drupal 9/10 Learning Curve Steep:

The short answer? No. The long answer: Drupal becomes more and more user-friendly with every upgrade, so it has come a long way since it started nearly 20 years ago—and this newest version is no exception. Drupal 9 takes the tremendous technical power of Drupal and makes it even more accessible to regular users through improved ease of use.

By the end of this training, participants/delegates will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal on localhost/apache and live server.
• Understand the core concepts/architecture of Drupal e.g Entities, taxonomies, views. 
• Drupal site building and modern approaches to building a robust site. 
• Drupal 9 Theme Development, starter kits, FED, and initiating themes using Gulp. 
• Component-based development approaches in Drupal

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

• To request a customised training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) used to build scalable, secure, and flexible websites and digital experiences. With its powerful content modeling, role-based permissions, and theming capabilities, Drupal is widely used for enterprise websites, government portals, community platforms, and more.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at participants new to Drupal who wish to learn how to administer, manage, and customize Drupal websites effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install, configure, and navigate a Drupal site.
• Manage users, roles, and permissions.
• Create and organize content with content types, fields, and taxonomies.
• Apply and customize themes using modern front-end tools.
• Maintain, secure, and extend Drupal websites with modules and best practices.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on exercises and practice.
• Practical implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

• To request a customised training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Magento is the world's most popular CMS (Content Management System) for e-commerce. It is used by some of the biggest brands, including Samsung, Levono and Nike, and is hugely popular with small and medium-sized ecommerce companies as well.
 
In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn about Mageto's features, strengths, weaknesses, and strategies for implementing Magento within an organization. Case studies are also provided to illustrate successful and unsuccessful implementations of Magento in the real-world. In addition to observing the past, we discuss future trends in the adoption of Magento in the market.

By the end of this training, participants will understand how to:

• Manage sales, inventory and customers using the Magento back-end
• Set up and manage the front-end for a truly customised user experience
• Integrate existing systems with a Magento e-commerce solution
• Integrate existing systems with partners who themselves use Magento

Audience

• Managers investigating e-commerce solutions
• Engineers considering implementing Magento in their organizations

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and live demonstrations

Note

• To request a customised training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level web and Java developers who wish to learn how to develop and deploy custom applications on the Liferay platform.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Develop custom portlets and applications using Liferay’s Plugins SDK.
• Integrate Java portlets and utilize Liferay's service architecture.
• Customize the portal using hooks, themes, and layout templates.
• Use Liferay Developer Studio for development and deployment.
• Apply best practices in Liferay development for efficient and maintainable applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at training coordinators, instructional designers, and HR administrators who wish to master LMS setup, user and role management, course creation, tracking, reporting, and best practices for certification preparation.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Magento Commerce Cloud to design, build, and develop e-commerce websites for enterprise-scale businesses in the Cloud.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start developing enterprise e-commerce sites using Magento Commerce Cloud.
• Understand the infrastructure, technology stack, and services required to host an online store in the Cloud.
• Learn how to configure and manage a cloud project in Magento using the Project Web Interface and CLI.
• Integrate supported services (Fastly, New Relic, Blackfire, and Sendgrid) to optimise the site performance and features.
• Configure and maintain a highly secure platform to eliminate cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Build, test, and deploy sites to staging and production, and then perform post-launch checks and maintenance.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Magento to design and build a secure and user-friendly online shopping site.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start developing e-commerce sites with Magento.
• Understand the architecture, core concepts, modules, and file structure in Magento.
• Develop a functional and robust online store by customizing Magento components and modules.
• Implement security enhancement practices in Magento to reduce vulnerabilities and potential cyber attacks.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at software architects and developers who wish to learn highly-effective techniques for defining the requirements needed to design and develop an e-commerce site using Magento.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture, features, and core functionalities of Magento.
• Learn how to create user stories, use cases, and workflows based on real-world scenarios.
• Use tools and templates available in Magento to gather and define the functional requirements.
• Define the integration and infrastructure requirements for design and development.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are used by trainers and educators for producing online courses that incorporate concepts such as blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other e-learning strategies in schools, universities, workplaces and the private sector.

This instructor-led training is aimed at technical users such as system administrators and course managers who enjoy the practical, hands-on approach to learning how to implement and deploy an LMS.

By the end of this training, participants will understand the architecture, design and functional principles behind an LMS and will, by way of live practice and implementation, know how to install, configure, manage, optimise, troubleshoot and deploy an LMS system in their own environment.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• This training will use Moodle as a sample LMS implementation.
• To use a different LMS or customize any other part of this training, please contact us to arrange. 

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are used by trainers and educators for producing online courses that incorporate concepts such as blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other e-learning strategies in schools, universities, workplaces and the private sector.  

In this instructor-led, live training participants will learn how to set up and manage courses, organize a course homepage and its layout, arrange and rate assignments and give feedback, run quizzes, track learning progress, have online discussions with learners, use the gradebook and other advanced grading approaches, run surveys, hold workshops, and more.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Have an in depth knowledge of an LMS and all of its main features.
• Create, design, add, configure and manage courses based on their own needs.
• Add, configure and manage course resources and activities, including but not limited to assignment, chat, feedback, forum, lesson, quiz, SCORM, survey, workshop, gradebook, etc.
• Bring an improved teaching, interaction and learning experience to the audience.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• This training will use Moodle as the LMS for all exercises.
• To use a different LMS or customize any other part of this training, please contact us to arrange. 

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at sysadmins who wish to install, configure, deploy and maintain an Open edX system.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure a production-grade Open edX system.
• Define user roles and permissions.
• Configure database and perform maintenance operations.
• Secure, monitor, optimise, and troubleshoot a live Open edX system.
• Peform administration tasks, including backup, restore and site migration.

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to customize and extend an online course based on the Open edX platform.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start developing.
• Understand the Open edX architecture, tools, and development process.
• Build, test and deploy new applications and services to extend the richness of an Open edX course.
• Integrate existing web, desktop, and mobile applications and content into an Open edX course.
• Track, monitor and analyze the activity and performance of an Open edX service or application.

With a market share of 60%, WordPress is the Content Management System (CMS) of choice for many of the world's most high-profile websites. PHP is a server side language, which powers about 82 percent of the web.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants with little or no previous programming experience will learn how to customize a Wordpress website using PHP.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the development tools needed to quickly start working PHP
• Understand and alter the various types of PHP files in WordPress
• Understand PHP syntax (conditional statements, loops, functions, etc.)
• Write their own plugin or a theme within WordPress
• Debug, deploy and troubleshoot a Wordpress website

Audience

• Web designers
• Content creators with technical skills
• Business owners with technical skills
• Developers with no previous experience with PHP

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion
• Lots of exercises and practice
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment

Note

• To request a customised training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
• To learn more about Wordpress, please visit: https://wordpress.org/

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Shopify to design, develop, and manage extensible e-commerce applications at scale.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start developing Shopify apps.
• Understand the features and architecture of the Shopify e-commerce platform.
• Understand the fundamentals of e-commerce and how to build a business with Shopify.
• Learn how to create a Shopify app using Shopify CLI, Polaris, App Bridge, and GraphQL.
• Build REST APIs to extend and scale the functionalities of Shopify apps.
• Get to know the tools and best practices in developing Shopify apps. 

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at web developers or web content managers who wish to use TinaCMS to create, edit, review, and publish website content real-time while keeping control of the code.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start using TinaCMS.
• Create, edit, and customize web pages directly from the web UI.
• Manage the editor by configuring the backend APIs from within the source code.
• Integrate other data sources, workflows, and plugins to extend functionality.

Veeva Vault is a cloud-based content management platform and suite of applications aimed at life sciences companies. 

This instructor-led, live training in Swansea (online or onsite) is aimed at end-users who wish to use Veeva Vault to better manage life science documents and data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to manage documents, track product information, and collaborate with other team members.

WordPress Training equips beginners and non-technical professionals with practical skills for building professional websites without writing any code. Covers core principles of WordPress installation, content management with posts, pages, and media, and configuration options. Examines proven methods for choosing between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, selecting and customizing themes, managing plugins, and configuring site settings. Helps individuals create and maintain their own websites confidently.

In this instructor-led, live training in Swansea (onsite or remote), participants will take their WordPress skills to the next level as they learn how to set up, customize and deploy a complex commercial-grade website based on Wordpress. 

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Wordpress locally and in the cloud (single and multi-site.)
• Build a sophisticated, e-commerce website.
• Customize an existing website.
• Brand a website using custom themes.
• Enable booking and membership functionality.
• Set up and administer different user roles (editors, admins, etc.)
• Create a private or public social network
• Optimize a Wordpress website for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation.)
• Backup and restore a Wordpress website.
• Maintain and troubleshoot a live, production Wordpress website.