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Build a world-class website in less than a week with Django CMS. Beginning Django CMS shows you how to simply and easily write a dynamic website with a full content management system in the backend. It is written for Internet developers who are sick and tired of dealing with complicated, bloated website frameworks that are a pain to build and a nightmare to maintain. Django CMS is an Open Source website building framework that is experiencing exponential growth because it is built on the simple, secure and scalable architecture of Django. This book takes you from knowing nothing about Django CMS, to building a functional website and content management system that you can deploy for your own website or for your customers.
What You´ll Learn:

Install and configure Django CMS

Build a dynamic website quickly and easily
Author and submit content for publication

Administer Django CMS

Install and use custom and third-party plugins

Deploy a website using Django CMS
Who This Book is For:
Beginning Django CMS is for programmers, in particular Python and Django programmers, wishing to build a simple, custom content management system (CMS). They do not have to be directly interested in the Django CMS application, Beginning Django CMS will be equally useful to a programmer looking to build a functioning CMS rapidly.

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1. Working With a CMS 2. Installing Django CMS 3. Introduction to Django CMS 4. Building the Site Template 5. Creating Page Templates and Sidebars 6. Menus and Navigation 7. Plugins 8. Extending Django CMS 9. Authoring in Django CMS 10. Administering Django CMS 11. Django CMS in Production 12. Next Steps in Django CMS

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Nigel George is a business systems developer specializing in the application of Open Source technologies to solve common business problems. He has a broad range of experience in software development-from writing database apps for small businesses to developing the back end and UI for a distributed sensor network at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Nigel also has over 15 years of experience in technical writing for business. He has written several training manuals and hundreds of technical procedures for corporations and Australian government departments. He has been using Django since version 0.96, and has programmed in C, C#, C++, VB, VBA, HTML, JavaScript, Python and PHP. He has also worked with frameworks/CMSes: WordPress, Django CMS, SharePoint, Joomla, Drupal, and Zope.

Nigel lives in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

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