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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

Summary


In this chapter we have learned how to install and configure the newsletter plugin. We learned how to create our first newsletter and how to activate subscriptions. We also learned how to install and configure the Events Calendar and how it can be used to send out advanced notice of upcoming events. In addition we learned a little about RSS feeds and how we can configure them so people can be updated automatically on subscription events. And last we briefly covered search engines and meta tags and provided a couple of useful sites to assist you with site promotion.