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Building Websites with XOOPS : A step-by-step tutorial

By : Steve Atwal
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Building Websites with XOOPS : A step-by-step tutorial

By: Steve Atwal

Overview of this book

<p class="MsoNormal">XOOPS is an open source web content management system, written in PHP. It allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It has a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.<br /><o:p><br /></o:p>If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore XOOPS, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about building a site with the system.<o:p></o:p><br />You will be introduced to the main components of XOOPS, and learn how to manage them. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content on the site, and also understand how users interact with the site. As you find your way round, your own ideas for what you need in your new website begin to crystallize around what you can see of the capabilities and flexibility of XOOPS.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To make sure that you create the site that looks the way you want, the book covers working with themes to help define your look for your pages. A case study of developing an example Intranet rounds off the book.<o:p></o:p></p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Miscellaneous Tools: Banners, Images, Smilies, Avatars, Templates, Comments


XOOPS allows you to add content that could be reused multiple times in various locations on your website. This content is listed under System Admin.

System Admin | Banners will show the page in the following screenshot. This allows you to create clients and advertisement banners for those clients, which can then be displayed on your site (usually at the top of each page of your site). One example is client Google with advertisement banners from its AdSense program. These banners may be images or flash movies, which when clicked will take you to the website advertised in the banner.

Each time one of your banners is shown to a visitor, the impressions made by this banner are increased by one by XOOPS and will be displayed under the Impressions column above. If a client is paying you to show the banner a set number of times, then the Imp. Left column will show how many times a banner still has to be shown before you...