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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

Changing Themes for a More Professional Business Appearance


But now that we have begun expanding our site with plugins the front page is starting to look a bit lopsided. This is because the Kubrick template was designed for minimalist blog sites, and not small business applications like we are getting into. So before we go any further, we are going to change the site theme. Before we proceed I want to apologize as this will seem rather autocratic with all the steps we are going to undertake but I want to get you through this quickly so we can move on with our plugins. By now you should be getting proficient at moving around the site. Let's change some of the graphics to the lamb theme.

  1. 1. Select Tools from the top menu.

  2. 2. Select Themes from the drop-down menu.

  3. 3. Locate the lamb theme and click on the Set As Site Theme button.

  1. 4. Open your FTP client and connect to your site.

  2. 5. On your computer locate the file called lamb/logo.png from the unzipped folder that can be downloaded from the...