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While the answer to this question is YES, you may look at a XOOPS book? The book with topic XOOPS, “Building Websites with XOOPS : A step-by-step tutorial, by Steve Atwal” available on packtpub.com is out!

- Simple and practical guide to XOOPS
- Manage blocks, modules, users, and themes
- Case study reinforces effective learning

Published October 2006. Look here!

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One of the most used tools while working on xoops and xoops theming on my PC is a normal (text)editor. Some days ago, I found PSPad and it looks good at first view. What I missed while using other free editors was in most cases the possibility to work directly on the server with an internal ftp-tool. PSPad has it on board …

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This is another easy way to add static content to xoops without too much work. When you have already read the article about the easiest way to add static content to XOOPS, you might be interested to get another possibility. Here are the steps to create your “own module” and to include your static content and you will find a zip version to download at the end of article. The advantage of this way is, that you can have a link in mainmenu and that you can set blocks in blockadministration on the sites of your “new module”. It will be registered like a normal module.

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Do you know the situation you need to add a page with static content to xoops, using XOOPS layout? Content, that will never ever change (… at least not every day), where you do not need the ability to edit content via administration and database?

You will edit files with an editor and upload with ftp? Company or products information? Existing html-pages you want to place within your domain using the same layout your XOOPS CMS does? You want to have nice URLs? Here is the easiest way, at least for me …

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Picasa is a software to organize your pictures on your local Windows PC. Picasa is a free software download from Google. It “… is a software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. ..” Picasa is available in the following languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English (US and UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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You are always looking for more and different icons to use on your website? Visit famfamfam and try Version 1.3 of the Silk web icon set, with 1000 icons “… including report icons, some new picture icons, some small XHTML/CSS buttons, and some hardware drive icons. …”

The artist’s work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License so you can use it for any purpose. All the artist is asking is a backlink to his site.

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Don’t tell me that i do have too much time to visit www. While I was looking for information and tools to generate braille font, I found a nice link to a page which generates ASCII Art online. You can insert your text and select a font (and some other settings). Submit your input and it will be generated as ASCII art on the fly. Select font “_all fonts with your text” and it will show what??? Yes, you’re right. Here are some examples …

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When you are looking for clean and clear icons to use in your XOOPS or other nifty web application, Sweetie, a project by Joseph North, might be a good choice for you. You will find a download with more than 150 icons, which are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, so commercial use is fine. Also it is allowed to make derivatives with the included Photoshop document. Visit: http://projects.sublink.ca/sweetie!

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Using targeted Ads on a website becomes more and more popular. Adding Google Adsense to XOOPS is as easy as to add it into static xHTML files. We do not have a plugin or a module actually which gives us some more features. While speaking about it, I could imagine marcans multilanguage to do this job, which would allow us to save content (here: different types of ads) and assign smartys to we can use in our themes and blocks.

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XOOPS-MAGAZINE.com has opened a toplist for XOOPS Sites. If you want to promote your site, this will be another place to leave a link to your site and perhaps, get some visitors (and even a backlink) more. They have just opened their doors for registration, so hurry up. Every XOOPS (and it’s forks) Site is welcome. Visit XOOPS MAGAZINE TOPLIST.

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