Drupal in Java

Generator PDF 417 in Java Drupal

Drupal is an open source CMS According to the Drupal Web site (www drupalorg), Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or community of users to easily publish, manage, and organize a wide variety of

content on a Web site Drupal is known to most as a solid and well-thoughtout CMS, but it is hampered with a somewhat difficult installation, and its management interface can also be a bit confusing Like WordPress, Drupal offers additional modules that you can add to a Web site to extend its functionality Also like WordPress, thousands of these modules are available for you to download and install Drupal s strengths include the following: It s free It supports highly flexible layout and page creation capabilities It s also highly extensible There is no hosted version of Drupal available at a single centralized site, but you can download Drupal from wwwdrupalorg and install it anywhere you might like!

Joomla!

In discussing this CMS, we drop the exclamation point from its proper name, Joomla!, following the same convention in other books We think this makes the name more readable, if less emphatic Joomla is an open source CMS that gives its users total control over the Web sites under its management Joomla is extremely powerful and offers out of the box features that include user (account) management, multi-language support, template management, and an integrated help and support system As with WordPress and Drupal, Joomla supports a plethora of add-on features (called extensions) that you can download and install Joomla is known for the following characteristics: It s free It s easy for site designers and operators to use to set up individual Web sites It s highly extensible, and it offers a comprehensive set of management and support tools You can download Joomla from wwwjoomlaorg However, Joomla s great power also puts the burden of great responsibility on its operators (who run the servers on which Joomla is used to set up and manage individual Web sites), if not also on its operators (who build and manage those individual sites)

Sure, reading about CMS is nice and all that, but this is an HTML (plus XHTML and CSS) book, so we have to dive in a little deeper Here again, we won t swim all the way down to the bottom of this pool we just cover some areas within the individual CMS packages introduced in the previous section and explain how you might go about updating the HTML/CSS in each one Each of the three systems namely, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla uses different methods to edit CSS However, for all the systems, changing the theme is the key to accessing and managing page presentation for the sites under their control

Installing and managing themes in WordPress is easy With the CSS skills we provide you in this book, you should find it even easier to update and tweak the look and feel for any predefined theme you might like In fact, you can use what you know to create your own themes, using a predefined WordPress theme as your point of departure First, log in to your site s WordPress administration view Then, from the main dashboard, click the Appearance link in the panel to the left (the one with a small icon that looks like some sections on a page) This screen shows your current theme and how to activate other themes, and lets you install new ones, as shown in Figure 17-1

To edit the current theme, click the Editor link in the Appearance panel The main stylesheet contents open in a text input area in the main screen Alternatively, you can select the style you want to work on under the Styles category on the right side of the page After you handle these preliminaries, all you must do to update the CSS is to choose some element in the current stylesheet, modify it, and then click the Update File button (under the input area) This saves your changes and makes them part of the theme, so be prepared to spend some time tweaking and tuning to get things just right In our simple example, we want to increase the font size for the body text in our Web site (this actually requires changing a stylesheet entry named #content, so be sure to make your changes for that element in particular) To do this, we scroll to the #content element, then bump the font size up from 76em to 1em, and then click the Update File button See Figure 17-2 for the before (top) and after (bottom) results of changing the font size When you re working on style sheets from any of these CMSs, you may find it easier to grab them and import them to your local machine, where you can use a CSS-savvy editor (or at least a text editor with search-and-replace functionality) instead of the waaaay-too-basic text editing any of these systems gives you You can also update the CSS in WordPress using an entirely different method Here s how: 1 Log in to your Web site with an FTP client (See 23 for information on FTP clients) 2 Navigate to the CSS folder (usually found in /www/wp-content/ themes) 3 Select your current theme folder 4 Download the main stylesheet Be careful there may be multiple styles with a css file extension 5 Modify the file using a Web site editor (For recommendations, see 23) 6 Upload the main stylesheet file back to the location from which you downloaded it For more information about updating CSS and tons of other features about WordPress, we suggest latching on to a copy of WordPress For Dummies, 3rd Edition, by Lisa Sabin-Wilson