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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)

Navigation


Modules in this category allow you to provide easier navigation of your website, such as customized menus and sitemaps. We will install the following module as an example:

  • Name: Sitemap

  • Version: 1.13

  • URL:http://www.xoops.org/modules/repository/viewcat.php?cid=62

  • Description: This module will list the pages on our website, organized in hierarchical fashion. This will help visitors, and search engine robots, to find pages on the site. A sitemap provides a link to all important pages on a site, and those pages can be reached using only two links from the home page: using the link to the sitemap, and using a link from the sitemap page to the target page.

The process to install modules should be very familiar by now, and we will install this module on our xoopsbook.steveatwal.com website as we have done earlier. Installation will add a menu item called Sitemap under Main Menu. When you click on this menu item, it will display links to content created by all installed modules, such...