Packt is pleased to announce a new book that teaches users to create and modify themes for Drupal websites. Written by prominent Open Source and Content Management expert Ric Shreves, Drupal 6 Themes helps users create a striking new look for their Drupal websites with clean layout and powerful CSS styling.

Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

eZ Systems and eZ Partner Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. will join forces to found eZ Systems Japan this November in Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo. The primary purpose of this new office is to promote eZ Systems’ Open Source Content Management System (CMS) eZ Publish in Japan.

"eZ is not new to the Japanese market, as we have been building a partner network and working with significant customers in Japan for the last two years. We are now experiencing accelerated growth in the market and, naturally, the next step is to get direct representation in the market to support further growth. We are thus very excited about this new office," explains eZ CEO Aleksander Farstad.

eZ Systems Japan will focus on the following:

• Being the base for eZ Publish marketing activities in Japan
• Providing development and support specialized for the Japanese market
• Providing expert consulting services
• Delivering training to eZ Partners in Japan

The grand opening of eZ Systems Japan will take place on November 5, 2008.

pTools today announced that it has further enhanced its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software for Microsoft^® SharePoint by integrating it with MediaRich^® DAM for SharePoint, Equilibrium’s Digital Asset Management software. Organisations can now use pTools ECM to manage valuable image and video assets and to enhance SharePoint deployments across the enterprise.   

pTools integration of MediaRich facilitates flexibility and the rapid deployment necessary for critical digital asset and web content management initiatives, all within the overall SharePoint document collaboration architecture.

Commenting on the partnership, Tom Skinner Managing Director of pTools says: “This partnership with Equilibrium builds on pTools capabilities in image and workflow deployments. By using MediaRich with pTools, customers can deliver image and workflow applications with greater ease and efficiency. This makes video, digital imagery and document image assets work for claims, case management and general web systems available in a way that’s increasingly demanded by business.”

Packt is pleased to announce the release of WordPress Themes Design, which is a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book will be invaluable to WordPress users or visual designers who want to develop a WordPress theme.

WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

eZ is proud to announce the third book from the eZ Press: eZ Publish Advanced Content Management. This book is compatible with eZ Publish 4.0. It was written to address the needs of content managers and webmasters, providing a comprehensive advanced guide to managing content with eZ Publish. It builds upon concepts from the eZ Publish Content Management Basics book. Both books were written by Bergfrid Marie Skaara, who used her experience with eZ Publish training and project development to produce this highly practical set.

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Baseline: Here are a few key things to think about when it comes to Web site design and management in terms of search results, audience and growth.

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Packt is pleased to announce the release of its new book DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial which will help users to create and design skins for their websites. Written by Darren Neese, this book is a practical guide to the fundamentals of skinning.

DotNetNuke is an open-source web application framework written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. The application's content management system is extensible and customizable through the use of skins and modules, and it can be used to create, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and websites.

SitePoint: Once a community has reached a certain level of activity, your
community staff -- your moderators -- play a vital role in the
continued success of the operation.

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