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Designing for XOOPS: A Designer's Quickstart Guide to Content Management

Book information

Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Year
2011
ISBN
1449308961, 9781449308964
Google Books ID
0mKLZwEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14510366 bytes)
Pages
126\126
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Learn how to customize websites with XOOPS, the open source CMS that helps non-developers build dynamic community websites, intranets, and other applications. This concise book shows you how to use XOOPS themes and modules to design everything from simple blogs to large database-driven CMS portals. Web designers and current XOOPS users will learn how to create a site theme with CSS and jQuery libraries, including techniques for making additional modules conform to the site's look and feel. Although XOOPS uses the PHP-based Smarty templating system, all you need is a bit of XHTML and CSS experience to get started.Learn the workflow for turning an idea into a full-featured website Become familiar with XOOPS’ theme-building tools, and set up PHP and MySQL environments Port an existing XHTML template to XOOPS Create themes with the 960 Grid System to save time and reduce code Use jQuery-based UI libraries to achieve complex effects Blend new modules into your theme with the template override function Go beyond traditional block layouts to customize your homepage

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