Posts Tagged ‘CMS’

Drupal for education and e-learning

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Drupal for education and e-learning : teaching and learning in the classroom using the Drupal CMS / Bill Fitzgerald, Packt Publishing, 2008

Here is yet another book on how to use and configure the Drupal CMS. The book will be useful to beginners. It discusses the admin windows and dialogs used to configure Drupal, with no use of the command line. There is not much specific to education or e-learning. 350 pages.

Software Engineering for Internet Applications

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Software Engineering for Internet Applications
by Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet, MIT Press 2006

Here is a readable, practical book that is intended as a textbook for a MIT course. It is available online here.

The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right

Friday, May 15th, 2009

The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Apress

This title does not appear to be in OPL, which is unfortunate. While we wait, the newer version is available free online here.

Professional Microsoft SharePoint designer

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Professional Microsoft SharePoint designer 2007 / Woody Windischman, Wiley, 2009

Sharepoint is Microsoft’s CMS. This book is an introduction to Sharepoint Designer. Strange, its title is very similar to another from Wiley that you will see listed here.

Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 design

Monday, February 9th, 2009

book coverProfessional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 design / Jacob Sanford, Wiley, 2008

Sharepoint is Microsoft’s CMS. This book focuses on the design aspects, and is for the beginner to intermediate designer.

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 : build your own professional blog, forum, portal or community website with Drupal 6 / David Mercer. Packt Publishing, 2008

Yet another book for the non-programmer about how to configure a CMS.

Wikipedia : the missing manual

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

bok coverWikipedia : the missing manual / John Broughton, O’Reilly, 2008

Here is a book for Wikipedia authors, and for anyone who is generating content for a web site. Hmm, most of us do that now and then!

WordPress for dummies

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

book coverWordPress for dummies / by Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Wiley, c2008

This is a very readable book on how to set up a WordPress blog site.

Textpattern solutions

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

book coverTextpattern solutions : PHP-based content management made easy / Kevin Potts, Springer Verlag, c2007.

For the administrator of a CMS using Textpattern.

Beginning Joomla!

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

book coverBeginning Joomla! : from novice to Professional, Dan Rahmel, Apress 2007

For the site administrator of Joomla, which is an excellent CMS. I did not get a chance to read the book.