Designing for XOOPS
Learn how to customize websites with XOOPS, the open source CMS that helps non-developers build dynamic community websites, intranets, and other applications. This concise book shows you how to use XOOPS themes and modules to design everything from simple blogs to large database-driven CMS portals.
Web designers and current XOOPS users will learn how to create a site theme with CSS and jQuery libraries, including techniques for making additional modules conform to the site’s look and feel. Although XOOPS uses the PHP-based Smarty templating system, all you need is a bit of XHTML and CSS experience to get started.
- Learn the workflow for turning an idea into a full-featured website
- Become familiar with XOOPS’ theme-building tools, and set up PHP and MySQL environments
- Port an existing XHTML template to XOOPS
- Create themes with the 960 Grid System to save time and reduce code
- Use jQuery-based UI libraries to achieve complex effects
- Blend new modules into your theme with the template override function
- Go beyond traditional block layouts to customize your homepage
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Before the Journey
Chapter 2 Elements of a XOOPS Theme
Chapter 3 Converting an Existing XHTML Template
Chapter 4 Styling XOOPS and Creating a Theme from 960
Chapter 5 jQuery and UI Libraries for XOOPS Themes
Chapter 6 Module Template Override
Chapter 7 Block Anywhere Techniques
Chapter 8 Case Study: My TinyMag
Book Details
- Paperback: 126 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (July 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449308961
- ISBN-13: 978-1449308964