Product Description

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

Product Description

Building robust, content-centric web applications with Plone 3, an open source Content Management System.

• Plone development fundamentals
• Customizing Plone
• Developing new functionality
• Real-world deployments

In Detail

Plone is an open-source content management framework, built on the top of the Zope application server and written in Python. As a ready-to-use Content Management System with a focus on usability, Plone makes it easy for content authors to create and edit web content.

Plone is also used by developers, as a framework for building content-centric web applications such as dynamic websites and intranets. This book focuses primarily on the developer-oriented aspect of Plone.

What you will learn from this book?

You will gain an in-depth understanding of the concepts that underpin successful Plone development, including:

• How to set up a suitable development environment
• The importance of automated testing of any code you write
• How to perform Plone customizations in a manageable, re-usable fashion
• Techniques for branding Plone and changing its look and feel
• How to safely install and manage third-party add-on components
• How to create your own content types
• How to create new forms and templates
• Ways of interacting with external relational databases
• Techniques for managing users and custom user metadata
• Using Plone’s new AJAX framework to build dynamic user interfaces
• How to set up Zope and Plone in a production environment
• How to connect to an LDAP/Active Directory repository for authentication
• How to configure a caching proxy to improve Plone’s performance

Throughout the chapters, there is an emphasis on demonstrating key concepts with practical examples. The reader should be able to borrow from the examples to get up and running quickly, but refer to the explanations provided to fully appreciate what is going on under the hood.

Approach

The book takes a pragmatic approach, building a realistic example application based on a case study. The code for this application is included with the book, and should serve as a useful starting point and source of examples for the reader.

Who this book is written for?

This book is aimed at developers who want to build content-centric web applications leveraging Plone’s proven user interface and flexible infrastructure.

Some familiarity with the Python programming language and basic web technologies such as HTML and CSS is assumed. Readers would also benefit from some prior experience with Zope or Plone, for example as site administrators or “power users”.

Professional Plone Development: Building robust, content-centric web applications with Plone 3, an open source Content Management System.

• ISBN13: 9780596529185
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description

Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System

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