Books | Content Management Systems

"Content Delivery Networks" enables the readers to understand the basics, to identify the underlying technology, to summarize their knowledge on concepts, ideas, principles and various paradigms which span on broad CDNs areas. Therefore, aspects of CDNs in terms of basics, design process, practice, techniques, performances, platforms, applications, and experimental results have been presented in a proper order. Fundamental methods, initiatives, significant research results, as well as references for further study have also been provided. Comparison of different design and development approaches are described at the appropriate places so that new researchers as well as advanced practitioners can use the CDNs evaluation as a research roadmap. All the contributions have been reviewed, edited, processed, and placed in the appropriate order to maintain consistency so that any reader irrespective of their level of knowledge and technological skills in CDNs would get the most out of it. The book is organized into three parts, namely, Part I: CDN Fundamentals; Part II: CDN Modeling and Performance; and Part III: Advanced CDN Platforms and Applications. The organization ensures the smooth flow of material as successive chapters build on prior ones.

• Build enterprise-level rich websites quickly and deliver the best possible content management to your website
• Get maximum usage of functionalities like different user interfaces, workflow, publishing, search, analytics, etc and learn different rendering techniques using presentation components for data bindings, events, handlers, schedulers, media, etc.
• Add a surprising amount of functionality just by customizing the Sitecore architecture through the best practices contained in this book

• Create, access, and personalize your website content using different Sitecore presentation components
• Learn how to extend the presentation components to fulfill some real-life requiremnts such as improving the site's performance, generating Rss feeds and so on
• Work with multiple websites on a single Sitecore instance and create multilingual websites
• Customize the Sitecore interfaces as per your business requirements to provide easier and error-free user interface to content authors to save time and improve accuracy
• Customize the Sitecore backend architecture as per your business needs
• Automate tasks and achieve scalability by altering the development and configuration settings
• Integrate external systems with Sitecore to import or export content and secure user interactions
• Integrate the advanced features of analytics and personalization, to get the best possible customer experience and generate its reports

Develop your programming skills by creating engaging websites using Drupal 8

About This Book

• Explore the new features of Drupal 8 through practical and interesting examples while building a fully functional recipe sharing website
• Learn about web content management, multi-media integration, and the newly introduced native web services in Drupal 8
• A hands-on, example-driven guide to developing Drupal websites that covers everything from site building, theme development, creating custom modules, as well as the development environment

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer who wants to use Drupal to enhance your website project and web application to manage content, this book is for you. Whether you are new to Drupal or an experienced web developer, you will be able to master both basic configuration and advanced module development in Drupal through this book.

What You Will Learn

• Set up your Drupal development environment
• Brush up on your understanding of the concepts of object-oriented programming, module development, and test-driven development
• Install and configure Drupal, add new content type, and work through lot of dummy content to create listing pages using views
• Enhance the content author's user experience and custom block
• Find out about field Type API and explore custom theme development
• Manage various media types in Drupal for your content-rich website

In Detail

Drupal is one of the most popular platforms with which to develop websites. With more and more organizations looking to build engaging digital experience for their stakeholders, the Drupal Content Management System offers a mobile-first platform with native support for integrations, better performance, and scalability. The new version brings significant changes to its module development and theme creation techniques, improving performance and refining the development experience.

This book will help you develop your own website using Drupal 8 in a step-by-step manner. You'll start off by setting up your development environment, enabling you to begin writing custom code for a Drupal-powered website through PHPStorm. You will learn about configuration management and creating custom content types before exploring the HTML5 features included with Drupal 8.

You will then get familiar with Drupal 8's mobile-first features, explore the built-in WYSIWYG and in-line editing capabilities of Drupal 8, and enhance the overall authoring experience. Later, you will create and enhance a Media Entity Lightbox module, before taking an in-depth look at the Views module.

We then cover some advanced search concepts and walk you through the installation and integration of the Java-based Apache Solr search engine. Finally, you will explore and configure the built-in support for REST and extend its support by installing the RESTful module. By the end of the book, you will have created a recipe sharing website while gaining a solid understanding of development best practices for Drupal 8.

Style and approach

Each chapter provides examples in a sequential manner from basic to advanced, and each example is explained using easy-to-understand language and a step-by-step approach. This programming experience will enable you to create a wide range of content authoring as well as end user experience.

The ultimate guide to using WordPress to make your life easier

WordPress guru Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the blog to give you the tools and know-how needed to build just about anything in WordPress. You’ll discover how to use WordPress as a CMS to power fully-fledged websites, photo galleries, forums, eCommerce sites, and much more. You get step-by step instructions on developing model sites from the ground up and how to utilize and build plugins that let you take WordPress to the next level.

You will learn how to:

• Use custom post types and custom taxonomies
• Add and work with custom headers, backgrounds, and more
• Build gorgeous WordPress themes with the latest features
• Create custom login forms and admin themes
• Control content with the loop (and alternatives to the loop)
• Integrate theme options and the theme customizer
• Extend WordPress with widget functionality
• Build WordPress projects for SEO
• Integrate WordPress with the social web
• Create helpful navigation using the navigation menu
• Use conditional control elements
• Get started with your own responsive themes

Updated and revised to cover the changes to WordPress 3.8, Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 4^th Edition, is the ultimate guide to getting the most out of WordPress.

Strategic Intelligence Management introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This contributed volume draws on state-of-the-art expertise from academics and law enforcement practitioners across the globe. The chapter authors provide background, analysis, and insight on specific topics and case studies. Strategic Intelligent Management explores the technological and social aspects of managing information for contemporary national security imperatives.

Academic researchers and graduate students in computer science, information studies, social science, law, terrorism studies, and politics, as well as professionals in the police, law enforcement, security agencies, and government policy organizations will welcome this authoritative and wide-ranging discussion of emerging threats.

• Hot topics like cyber terrorism, Big Data, and Somali pirates, addressed in terms the layperson can understand, with solid research grounding
• Fills a gap in existing literature on intelligence, technology, and national security

Alfresco is considered the leading open source solution for Web and Content Management. What makes Alfresco unique is its services, which can be easily extended with web scripts via RESTful services. Written by an author team that includes the chief architect and the founder of Alfresco, this comprehensive guide provides in-depth coverage of the Alfresco architecture and services and shows how to extend them through Web scripts to meet real business needs.

You'll learn how to use Alfresco services to create effective content management solutions while detailed code examples show you how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts using RESTful services to deliver custom solutions.

• Features detailed, working code examples that demonstrate how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts
• Written by the Chief Architect and other key Alfresco insiders, ensuring that this book is both authoritative and up-to-date
• Shows how to integrate Alfresco with Drupal and Joomla portal solutions
• Covers the upcoming Alfresco 3.2 release
• Includes real-world case examples of increasing levels of sophistication and complexity
• The companion Web site contains all source code examples in the book

You'll benefit from this timely resource that shows how to get the most from Alfresco for specific business requirements.