At the first glance, my head of faculty appointed me as a new portal administrator for 2 years terms. For me, I don’t have any experience deals with portal because the new task requires me to transfer from the old portal to the new portal start from scratch.

The old portal website.

Old portal: https://fkee.ump.edu.my/

New portal: https://ftkee.ump.edu.my/

Before I accepting this task this year, I didn’t know much about web portal development. So I took this as an opportunity to learn something new. After done some research from the Youtube channel, I came to know about things like CSS, HTML and Javascript and free platform such as JOOMLA. Thus, I know what is the minimum requirement needed for portal development, and the actual process went much complex than that. So here I would like to write about my developing process and the things I have learnt in this recent month.

Creating pages in Joomla

My training started with the familiar with Joomla basics. This was just to ensure I knew the basics that were used in the development such as users, system, menus, contents, components and extension. I also had a brief tutorial session conducted by Mr. Faizul and Madam Azlina from PTMK UMP on Joomla modules to build pages from scratch.

Then, I had a requirement session, which helped me to know how create pages. In Joomla, pages are simply called articles. After that, there was a session on assign pages to the Joomla navigation menu. This process to allow visitors to access your new page, it’s time to assign it to a menu.

Mobile Platform Viewer

As a conclusion, my first time feel as a web developer has improve my skills as a lecturer that deal in teaching final year subject such as Data Communication and Multimedia technology and application, and I’m very happy to learn it.