Archive for the ‘Web Construction’ Category
Creating Family Web Sites For Dummies
April 7, 2007
Blog Design Solutions
April 5, 2007
Blogging has moved rapidly from being a craze to become a core feature of the Internet—from individuals sharing their thoughts with the world via online diaries, through fans talking about their favorite sports teams or music, right up to serious business minds discussing industry futures.
And that includes you, right? If you haven’t got a blog already, you want to start one, and want to find out how. If you have already got one, you want to know how to customize it, and make it look cooler than everybody else’s. In either case, this is the ideal book for you.
In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world’s most popular blogging engines – Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog. The last chapter even shows you how to build your very own PHP/MySQL-based blog engine!
With this book in hand, you’ll have found your way to blog heaven in no time!
Summary of contents:
Chapter 1: The “Web Log”
Chapter 2: Creating a Local Test Environment for Your Blog
Chapter 3: Movable Type
Chapter 4: ExpressionEngine
Chapter 5: WordPress
Chapter 6: Textpattern
Chapter 7: Write Your Own Blog Engine
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Publishing.WordPress.Complete
April 4, 2007
WordPress is a simple and powerful way to start blogging. If you’re not
an IT expert but want to use a state of the art blogging system to give
your blog the best chance of success, while giving you the time to focus
on content and your readers, WordPress is the right system for you, and
this book is the right place to start. It will give you a rapid and
straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of
WordPress and get you up and running with a state of the art blog as
quickly and painlessly as possible.
WordPress is an open source blog engine released under GNU general
public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with
great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for
developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also
be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versality and
ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community
of users.
If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this
book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you
what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system.
You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users,
communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them
using WordPress. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage
all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also
understand how users interact with the blog. In working through the book
you’ll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the
ideas for make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximise its
impact.
Written in a clear, easy to read style, the book takes you the essential
tasks required to create a feature-rich blog as quickly as possible.
From initial setup to customizing modules, each task is explained in a
clear, practical way using an example blog developed through the book.
This book is a beginner’s guide to WordPress, for people who are new to
blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and
straightforward manner. It does not require any detailed knowledge of
programming or web development, and any IT confident user will be able
to use the book to produce an impressive blog.
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Building Forums with vBulletin Forum
April 4, 2007
This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power and
possibilities of vBulletin. vBulletin’s Administration Control Panel is
where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums and
word filters to skins, templates and maintenance, everything can be done
through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant
sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options
available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices
with your board administration. To make your forums stand out from the
rest, we cover skins and templates to take your first steps in
customising your forum. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum
platforms available. Well known for its power and speed, it drives many
The book covers: Install and configure vBulletin Learn the your way
around vBulletin with a thorough guided tour Customise your forum to meet
the unique requirements of your community Administer users and posts,
appoint staff to moderate your forum – or moderate it yourself See
how to upgrade your vBulletin installation, or upgrade other forum
systems to vBulletin Create a beautiful forum by designing templates or
adjusting existing ones Install hacks to change vBulletin’s behaviour or
add new features – you will even see how to create your own hacks
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