Building Online Communities with phpBB 2

Building Online Communities with phpBB 2
360 pages | Packt Publishing (October 5, 2005) | 1904811132 | PDF | 2 Mb
This book gives your the power to use phpBB to set and run your own online discussion forums with ease.
It takes you through the whole process of setting up your phpBB site, and helps your create, customise, and manage your own online community with phpBB.
Written by experienced phpBB adminstrators and enthusiasts, then emphasis is on simple and practical guidance.
It is packed with step-by-step examples, and is ideal as both a introductory tutorial and a task based reference.

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Learning Website Development with Django

Ayman Hourieh "Learning Website Development with Django"
Packt Publishing April 2008 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1847193358 | PDF | 3.2 M
Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers.
It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle, making it easier to build high-performance web applications faster, with less code.
This book will show you how to assemble Django’s features and leverage its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured website.
It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code. Each chapter will add new features to the site, and show what parts of Django to work on to build these features.
This book has been specifically written for Python developers new to Django, and it’s goal is to help you put together Django applications as quickly as possible.
This book will give you clear, concise and, of course, practical guidance to take you from the basics of creating pages with Django through to learning the skills that will make you a Django developer to be reckoned with.

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Building Online Stores with osCommerce

Learn how to design, build, and profit from a sophisticated online business.
388 pages | Packt Publishing (May 12, 2005) | 1904811140 | PDF | 4 Mb
Building Online Stores with osCommerce:
Professional Edition will teach you how to use, build and maintain a complex, powerful e-commerce website using osCommerce.
As well as everything you need to get started with osCommerce, this book goes onto cover how to:
- Increase your sales through cross-selling and up-selling -
Offer custom discounts and support the use of gift certificates - Incorporate your own RSS feed to enhance the content of the site -
Use and control banners to market popular or profitable products within your store - Customize the osCommerce code to make your site more robust, eliminate bugs, and increase flexibility and customer appeal Understand the security technologies involved in e-commerce and develop your own security and backup strategies -
Build your business by utilizing various advertising techniques, search engine optimization, affiliate and drop-shipping schemes -
Learn the principles and methods used by professional programmers to empower you to continue creating and building your online business
These techniques will enable you to build a unique and powerful site, giving you an ideal platform to enter the competitive world of e-commerce.
Through this complete,
comprehensive education in osCommerce you will develop the confidence to experiment with your own enhancements and modifications,
leaving you with a truly unique online store. Practical demonstrations and well considered advice will ensure that your store will always be developed to the highest standards.
As you become serious with osCommerce, this book will show you how to make the most of osCommerce's open source development process and community.
You will see how to use the community as an excellent resource for developing your business strategies and practices, as well as making it easy to continuously enhance your customers' shopping experience.

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