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To be a successful ASP.NET 4 developer, you need to know how to apply the vast array of new functionality available in the latest release of the .NET 4 Framework and Visual Studio 2010.
This book will immerse you in a variety of advanced topics, including architecting different application data tiers, memory caching paradigms, data mining, and search engine optimization. Working through step-by-step exercises using P/LINQ, DLR, MEF, MVC, IronPython, Axum, and Ajax, you will learn a variety of approaches to building each of the key application tiers common to all web solutions.
Using a proven technique of illustrating advanced concepts with functional solutions, all topics in the book are modeled on a fully operational content management system (CMS), built from the ground up. This ensures that you’ll be introduced to real-world examples that demonstrate the full functionality of the .NET 4 Framework for ASP.NET, and that you’ll be able to apply your new skills to any web development situation.
Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS: Advanced Techniques for C# Developers Using the .NET 4 Framework
Tags: .NET, Advanced, ASP.NET, Developers, Framework, Techniques, using
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Find the best CMS and start working with it to create web sites, blogs, communities, e-commerce sites, and intranets
- Understand different types of CMSs and select the one that best fits your needs
- Install and customize a CMS with themes and plug-ins
- Learn key concepts of Content Management Systems and how to systematically assess your requirements
- Introduction to the major CMSs including Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress, Plone, Magento, Alfresco, and more
- A hands-on, easy-to-read guide that gives you practical tips on hosting, project management, working with specialists and communities, and finding experts
In Detail
There are many powerful open source CMSs available to take the pain away from managing a web site. These systems are feature rich, often easy to use, and free. Unfortunately, there are so many choices it’s tough to be sure you’re choosing the right one. How can you be sure that you are selecting and working with the right tool?
This book will guide you through choosing the right CMS for your needs. You can be confident in your choice of CMS for the needs of your project. It will also help you make a start using the CMS, and give you a feel for what it’s like to use it – even before you install it yourself.
Are you bewildered by the many open source CMSs available online? Open source CMSs are the best way to create and manage sophisticated web sites. You can create a site that precisely meets your business goals, and keep the site up to date easily because these systems give you full control over every aspect of your site. Because open source CMSs are free to download, you have a huge amount of choice between the various systems.
Yet there are many open source CMSs to choose from, each with unique strengths – and occasionally limitations too. Choosing between the bewildering number of options can be tough.
Making the wrong choice early on may lead to a lot of wasted work, because you’ll have a half-finished site that doesn’t meet your initial requirements – and needs to be restarted from scratch.
This book will show you how to avoid choosing the wrong CMS. It will guide you through assessing your site requirements, and then using that assessment to identify the CMS that will best fit your needs. It contains discussions of the major CMSs, and the issues that you should consider when choosing: their complexity to use, their features and the power they offer. It discusses technical considerations such as programming languages and compliance with best practice standards in a clear, friendly way that non-technical readers can understand.
The book also contains quick-start guides and examples for the most popular CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal, so that you can experiment with these CMSs, get a feel for how they work, and start using them to build your site.
After reading this book, you can be confident that your CMS choice will support your web site’s needs because you have carefully assessed your requirements and explored the available options.
What you will learn from this book?
- Analyze your web site’s CMS requirements, and identify the CMS options that best suit your needs
- Explore the differences between the major CMSs, and understand which CMS option best fits your site
- Assess your technical skill level and choose a CMS that combines ease of use with flexibility and power
- Extensive discussion and quick start guides for several major CMSs: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and more
- Discover “speciality CMSs” for specific requirements: intranets, document sharing, community, e-commerce, blogging, and more.
- Know how to choose the right developers and designers to customize the CMS to your requirements
- Know what to do when your CMS plays up: troubleshoot, get help from the community, and make full use of the documentation
- Make sure your web site gets the best hosting: find an ISP that can provide your CMS with the web hosting it needs, or learn about hosting the site on your own server
- Investigate the plug-ins available for each CMS – plug-ins extend the power of a CMS, meaning that you can build features into your site that the CMS on its own might not provide
Approach
This is a practical guide that takes a task-centered approach. Each task is stepped through with detailed instructions. You will come across many step-by-step examples with plenty of screenshots and resources. This book provides all the support and guidance you need as you begin to work with CMSs. It even has additional tasks that you can carry out to build your skills further. Everything is oriented towards managing content with a CMS.
Who this book is written for?
This book is written for anyone who wants to start a web site and is looking for a good CMS. It is best suited for people who are selecting a CMS for their sites and people who will manage a CMS. Knowledge of web basics is certainly helpful, but not needed.
Choosing an Open Source CMS: Beginner’s Guide
Tags: Beginner's, Choosing, guide, Open, source
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This is the Official Guide on the award-winning SilverStripe programming framework, authored by the creators of the open source CMS.
SilverStripe is a robust and flexible website content management system (CMS) tightly integrated with an application framework. It is open source and embraces modern system architecture and agile development methodologies. Intermediate developers can implement powerful websites and web-applications quickly and customize them to their individual needs. The award-winning PHP5/MySQL-based system saves not only time and nerves for techies, but also features a straightforward interface which is a joy to use for non-technical content-authors.
This Guide helps you to:
- Get started with SilverStripe: Learn the architecture and usability principles that underpin SilverStripe’s modern approach. Then go through the technical requirements, the installation process, and useful tools for your daily work.
- Learn the CMS: Practical examples show you how to use the CMS as a content author, and how to manage content, images, documents, and forms without technical knowledge. Administrators learn how to set up permissions and security groups.
- Develop a custom application: Use MVC and other modern design patterns to create well-structured, object-oriented PHP code and concise template markup. Let the authors walk you through creating an interactive recruitment website as practical example project.
- Extend through clean code and modules: Understand how SilverStripe is built on modularity and how this empowers you to build plugins and core extensions in an elegant, maintainable fashion.
- Use SilverStripe professionally: In-depth topics on internationalization, security, unit testing, caching, multi-page forms, and web services APIs ensure that you can build world-class websites.
SilverStripe: The Complete Guide to CMS Development
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Create a fully functional and professional website using CMS Made Simple
- Learn everything there is to know about setting up a professional website in CMS Made Simple
- Implement your own design into CMS Made Simple with the help of the easy-to-use template engine
- Create photo galleries with LightBox and implement many other JQuery effects like interactive navigation in your website
- Build an eStore and grasp the intricacies of setting up an integrated PayPal checkout
- Develop high-quality websites with an illuminating case study approach and many screenshots
In Detail
CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.
This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.
This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
A tutorial for beginners intended to equip them to build a fully functional website with a professional touch and advanced features
What you will learn from this book
- Develop powerful, engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations
- Implement your own design or any HTML /CSS template into CMS Made Simple with step-by-step instructions
- Integrate an e-commerce shop with PayPal checkout
- Easily implement YouTube videos into templates or pages
- Create custom forms of any complexity with individual fields using a builder
- Integrate a photo gallery or newsletter feature with ready-to-use modules
- Build print-friendly PDF versions of your sites on the fly
- Develop protected pages available only for members and manage visitor logins with a sign-in form
- Build your own functionality with module maker
Approach
This is a practical, hands-on book based around a case study website, which you will build in this easy-to-understand workshop by using CMS Made Simple. The case study grows chapter by chapter, from CMS installation to the finished website. It provides clear instructions and detailed screenshots, so you can see exactly what to do at each step of the build.
When you have completed the case study, you will have the knowledge and confidence to build a website with rich functionality and individual design that is optimized for search engines and can be handed over to the customer.
Who this book is written for
This book is perfect for newcomers as well as webmasters who are looking for an introduction to building powerful and professional websites with a content management system. Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is the only requirement. The workshop covers all aspects of web publishing and is aimed for web designers, web developers, editors, and web managers.
CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner’s Guide
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A book about developing, managing, maintaining and deploying Web content solutions across the enterprise. Addresses the common questions that all small, medium and large enterprises encounter as they grow. Softcover.
Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach
Tags: Approach, Collaborative, content, Management
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