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Building Websites with e107

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Building Websites with e107

Overview of this book

e107 is a PHP-based content management system that uses the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. e107 is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is completely free, totally customizable and in constant development. 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.If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore e107, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about building a site with the system. The book covers all the core features of e107, and it is thorough and incremental tutorial approach it gives you the understanding to experiment with advanced features and customization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building Websites with e107
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Chapter 3. Setting Site Preferences

Now that we have installed e107 and had a chance to view the front page, you are probably thinking to yourself, there is not much available. Trust me, there are plenty of options available, which we will explore together as we make our website. Before we start, keep in mind that with a CMS, you have a front end and a back end. If you are familiar with word processing programs then it is just like a mail-merge document. The theme (front end) is analogous to the document body in a theme. It then fills in the various fields with the information contained in the database (back end), which in turn then displays what look like individually prepared letters. If you are new to making websites or have never done mail merge, think of a theme as that one meal that you make that comes out perfect every time but then tell each of the people that have eaten it that it was prepared especially for them. The principle is the same, just a different technology.

The e107...