What this book covers

Section I: Opening up to Open Source CMSs

Chapter 1 Do I even want an Open Source CMS?—When and how a content management system is useful. Why open source? Readymade or custom-built?

Chapter 2 Evaluating your Options—Different CMS types, their purposes, and different CMS technologies

Section II: Thinking your choices through

Chapter 3 Understanding your Requirements—brainstorm and clarify your requirements, standard compliance, scale of the site, and key features

Chapter 4 Building the Site—trying out CMSs, technical requirements, downloading and installation, configuration, and creating navigation

Chapter 5 Content Editing and Management—using WYSIWYG editors, adding pictures, publishing content, and creating links

Chapter 6 Templates and Plug-ins—adding a photo gallery and customizing design via templates

Chapter 7 Extending and Customizing—understand a CMS's code quality, and make code-level changes to understand their complexity

Section III: CMSs by breed

Chapter 8 Blog CMSs—perform typical tasks with the top three blog choices and evaluate features

Chapter 9 Web CMSs—using top Web CMSs, customizing them, and gaining key CMS skills

Chapter 10 CMSs for E-Commerce—managing product/service-based e-commerce sites with CMSs, and knowing which would be best for you

Chapter 11 Team Collaboration CMSs—internal sites for collaboration and communication, workflow, access privileges, and version tracking; Alfresco

Chapter 12 Specialized CMSs—CMSs that serve niches—e-learning, wiki, photo galleries, discussion forums, and so on

Section IV: Open source CMS tips

Chapter 13 Hosting your CMS-Powered Site—selecting and working with a web host

Chapter 14 Getting Involved in the Community—asking questions, learning from documentation, and getting help

Chapter 15 Working with a Specialist—finding experts, evaluating them, tips for project management, and outsourced teams

Chapter 16 Packt Open Source CMS Awards—Best CMSs voted by the community and experts