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Building Websites with e107

You're reading from   Building Websites with e107 A step by step tutorial to getting your e107 website up and running fast

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2007
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811312
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Building Websites with e107
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. An Introduction to e107 2. Installing e107 FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Site Preferences 4. Customizing the Look and Feel of Your Site 5. Customizing Your Site for e-Commerce with Plugins 6. Customizing Your Site for Business with Plugins 7. Adding Content to e107 8. Information Dissemination 9. Maintenance, Optimization, and Security Resources

Creating the Front Page


The moment you have been waiting for has finally arrived! We will be now creating the first page for our website. But before we make the first page we need to cover a couple of things. First you can control whether the front page data should be dynamic (changes constantly) or static (stays the same). The second thing is you can create different front pages for visitors, members, administrators, or any other user class you create. The fantastic thing is that you only need to enter the information for each, as the theme will take care of the layout for you. We will be covering adding content in detail in Chapter 7 so for now we will just whet our appetites by creating our front page.

Creating a Dynamic Front Page

When you click on Home in the administrative interface you are taken to the front page of the site. The text that you see on this page has been entered as a news item. We will learn more about configuring the news post in Chapter 7. For now we are going to...

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