Beginning Django CMS

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Working with a CMS

   • Nigel George

   Pages 1-5

3. Installing django CMS

   • Nigel George

   Pages 7-16

4. Introduction to django CMS

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   Pages 17-23

5. Site Templates

   • Nigel George

   Pages 25-44

6. Your Blog Website: Templates

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   Pages 45-59

7. django CMS Plugins

   • Nigel George

   Pages 61-78

8. Advanced Plugins

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   Pages 79-96

9. Authoring in django CMS

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   Pages 97-123

10. Menus and Navigation

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    Pages 125-140

11. Extending django CMS

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    Pages 141-166

12. Next Steps

    • Nigel George

    Pages 167-171

13. Back Matter

    Pages 173-175

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Build a world-class website in less than a week with Django CMS. Beginning Django CMS shows you how to simply and easily write a dynamic website with a full content management system in the backend. It is written for Internet developers who are sick and tired of dealing with complicated, bloated website frameworks that are a pain to build and a nightmare to maintain. Django CMS is an Open Source website building framework that is experiencing exponential growth because it is built on the simple, secure and scalable architecture of Django. This book takes you from knowing nothing about Django CMS, to building a functional website and content management system that you can deploy for your own website or for your customers. 
What You'll Learn:

• Install and configure Django CMS
  

Build a dynamic website quickly and easily

Author and submit content for publication

Administer Django CMS

Install and use custom and third-party plugins

Deploy a website using Django CMS

Who This Book is For:


Beginning Django CMS is for programmers, in particular Python and Django programmers, wishing to build a simple, custom content management system (CMS). They do not have to be directly interested in the Django CMS application, Beginning Django CMS will be equally useful to a programmer looking to build a functioning CMS rapidly.

• Django CMS
• Dango
• CMS
• Content Management System
• Website
• Framework
• Open Source
• Python

     

Nigel George is a business systems developer specializing in the application of Open Source technologies to solve common business problems. He has a broad range of experience in software development—from writing database apps for small businesses to developing the back end and UI for a distributed sensor network at the University of Newcastle, Australia. 

Nigel also has over 15 years of experience in technical writing for business. He has written several training manuals and hundreds of technical procedures for corporations and Australian government departments. He has been using Django since version 0.96, and has programmed in C, C#, C++, VB, VBA, HTML, JavaScript, Python and PHP. He has also worked with frameworks/CMSes: WordPress, Django CMS, SharePoint, Joomla, Drupal, and Zope. 

Nigel lives in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.       

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