Designing for XOOPS: A Designer's Quickstart Guide to by Sun Ruoyu

By Sun Ruoyu

Tips on how to customise web content with XOOPS, the open resource CMS that is helping non-developers construct dynamic neighborhood web content, intranets, and different purposes. This concise ebook exhibits you ways to take advantage of XOOPS subject matters and modules to layout every thing from easy blogs to massive database-driven CMS portals. net designers and present XOOPS clients will create a domain topic with CSS and jQuery libraries, together with ideas for making extra modules agree to the site's appear and feel. even though XOOPS makes use of the PHP-based Smarty templating method, all you wish is somewhat XHTML and CSS adventure to start.

Show description

Read Online or Download Designing for XOOPS: A Designer's Quickstart Guide to Content Management PDF

Similar web design books

Video systems in an IT environment: the basics of networked media and file-based workflows

Audio/Video (AV) platforms and knowledge expertise (IT) have collided. it really is being leveraged to create compelling networked media and file-based workflows. Video platforms in an IT surroundings has helped hundreds of thousands of execs in broadcast, publish and different media disciplines to appreciate the foremost facets the AV/IT "tapeless” convergence.

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition For Dummies

Visible internet Developer show version is a inexpensive, entry-level model founded round pre-built tasks that new builders can simply install and customise for his or her personal websites Explains tips on how to harness "drag-and-drop" instruments that construct at the acclaim for ASP. internet, providing internet designers a simple advent to the recent Microsoft visible Studio 2005 Framework exhibits amateur net builders step-by-step easy methods to create strong ASP.

WordPress For Dummies, 7th Edition

It kind of feels as if the area revolves round web content and blogs nowadays, and with WordPress For Dummies, seventh variation you could sign up for the joys! This easy-to-read e-book is filled with the knowledge you must navigate the realm of WordPress, and all the content material is up-to-date to maintain you in control with the newest updates.

Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development

A entire advisor to utilizing RadRails to improve your Ruby on Rails initiatives in a certified and efficient demeanour. Aptana RadRails is an built-in improvement setting for Ruby on Rails tasks. outfitted on best of the well known Eclipse platform, RadRails presents the entire instruments you want to create an entire Rails program from a unmarried interface, permitting you to target the artistic a part of the improvement as your IDE looks after the mechanics.

Additional info for Designing for XOOPS: A Designer's Quickstart Guide to Content Management

Example text

SlideToggle('slow'); }); Ta-da…all done! It isn’t too hard, is it? Now refresh your browser to see the result. When you first load the page, the sliding block will not be shown (see Figure 5-5). Then click the text that says “Toggle Header” in the upper-right corner, and the sliding block will slide down, as shown in Figure 5-6. Click on the text again, and the block will slide up. Once again, I must say that the effect I implemented here is—to some extent—crude. But the point is to show you that you can easily transfer your knowledge of designing static HTML to designing a XOOPS theme.

It is often used if you want to link to an image or a CSS. Detailed usage will be explained throughout the book. org”), without the final slash. <{$xoops_banner}> Display banners. <{$xoops_contents}> Display the news and other content. <{$xoops_footer}> Display the footer. storyid=1). XOOPS User-Related <{$xoops_isadmin}> Test if the visitor is Administrator—return TRUE if yes. <{$xoops_isuser}> Test if the visitor is a logged in user—return TRUE if yes. <{$xoops_userid}> User ID of the member.

The specific part can be block content, a module page, or a forward page. Here are some further insights into themes and templates in XOOPS: • A theme sets the layout of blocks; a template sets the layout in each of the blocks. • A theme sets the style of a module page; a template sets the layout of the module page. • A theme can be seen as a template of XOOPS blocks. • A theme resides in /XOOPS/theme, while a template resides in modules/ MODULE_NAME/templates/ But what if you want to modify the template of a specific module in your theme?

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.62 of 5 – based on 49 votes