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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)

Installing a New Theme


XOOPS comes with several themes that allow you to change the look and feel of your new website with a few mouse-clicks. We will again use our demo website xoopsbook.steveatwal.com to demonstrate how to change the theme and show the changes.

To change the theme, we will download the Blue Shine theme from the website at http://www.xoopsdesign.com/modules/PDdownloads/viewcat.php?op=&cid=1.

Please note that you cannot download this theme until you first register at this website by creating a user ID and password, responding to the email you receive after registration, and then logging into the website with your new user ID and password.

At this point, we will assume that you know how to unzip a file using zipGenius (or WinZip) and use Filezilla to upload the uncompressed files to your website. So, unzip the Blue Shine theme and upload the entire blue_shine folder (located inside the xoops_theme_blue_shine\XOOPS theme folder when you unzip the Blue Shine theme file) to...