Managing and Customizing OpenCms 6 Websites: A complete guide to set up, configuration and administration (Paperback)

~ Matt Butcher (Author)

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Product Description

A complete guide to set up, configuration and administration

• Understand the OpenCms web publishing process
• Learn how to create your own, complex, OpenCms website
• Develop the skills to implement, customize and maintain an OpenCms website

In Detail This book takes you through the process of creating content rich web sites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book exists to ease Java developers into getting the most from OpenCms.

OpenCms
OpenCms is a professional-level, open source Website Content Management System, with which you can create and manage complex websites. Based on Java and XML technology, it fits into almost any modern IT environment. Now at version 6, OpenCms has blossomed into a mature and proven content management system.

With hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers working with OpenCms, this book is the embodiment of the author's expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.

What you will learn from this book? With this book you will master OpenCms, and learn the skills to implement, customize and maintain an OpenCms website.

This book covers

• Installing OpenCms, and its basic concepts
• Using the OpenCms Workplace to manage and publish your content
• Managing projects, user accounts, databases, and modules
• Working with the VFS and search
• Understanding and using tasks and workflows
• Working with templates and the OpenCms Tag Library

At the end of this book, you will:

• Understand how OpenCms handles and publishes content to the Web
• Be confident working in the OpenCms environment
• Be able to create your own, complex, OpenCms website

Approach

Written in an accessible and easy to read style, this book is packed with practical advice to help you create your OpenCMS website.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for anyone who wants to get an OpenCMS website up and running as quickly as possible, whether you are a user, administrator, designer or webmaster. You do not have to be a Java developer to benefit from this book, although a working knowledge of Java, JSP, and XML will help you to get the most from OpenCMS, and this book.

About the Author

Matt Butcher

Matt Butcher is a senior programmer at Palantir.net, where he specializes in content management systems, web services, and browser scripting. He has been an active participant in Open Source technologies for over a decade. Matt has written five books for Packt, including Learning Drupal 6 Module Development, Mastering OpenLDAP, and Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery., all of which are published by Packt. Matt writes his technical blog at technosophos.com. When not pushing bits, Matt likes to explore Chicago with his wife and three daughters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904811760
• ISBN-13: 978-1904811763
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,362,745 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money on this book, August 12, 2008

By	T. Dorsey Harrington (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book adds absolutely nothing that you can't learn by devoting two or three hours to reading the online documentation. The simple stuff (which is all this book covers) is fairly intuitive and you don't need to this book to learn that, while the complicated stuff (structured content) and for which OpenCMS is best applied, doesn't even rate an index entry, much the large chapter it requires.

Total waste of time and money. I only gave this book one star because Amazon won't let me give it what it deserves - zero.