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Packt is pleased to announce its new title WordPress 2.7 Cookbook, which provides users with tips and tricks to secure their WordPress blog and optimize it for search engines. Written by Jean-Baptiste Jung, this book will help users take full advantage of WordPress features and transform their blog into a faster, smarter WordPress platform as quickly and painlessly as possible.

WordPress is one of the largest self-hosted blogging tools in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. About 120,000 blogs are created daily. It is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. WordPress’ versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users to date.

WordPress 2.7 Cookbook provides users with step-by-step instructions for performing a wide range of tasks and handling common problems. This book has been fully tested with WordPress 2.7 and contains 100 useful recipes, which will help users take full control of their WordPress blog’s layout, themes, widgets, and plug-ins.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Joomla! 1.5 , which aims to help users debug, validate, and package templates. Written by Tessa Blakely Silver, Joomla! 1.5 Template Design is a complete guide for web designers to create unique website templates for Joomla! 1.5.

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS), which enables users to build websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla one of the most popular CMSes available. Joomla! 1.5 has a radically enhanced template system that is very different from that of Joomla! 1.0, and comes complete with the ability to create template overrides and customize "module chrome".

Joomla! 1.5 Template Design focuses squarely on the new enhancements to the Joomla! 1.5 templating process and walks web designers through the process of turning a working XHTML and CSS "mockup" into a fully functional Joomla! 1.5 template. It is designed to help users create effective and flexible templates and help them tweak their existing templates with Flash, extensions and JavaScript libraries.

WordPress 2.7 Complete is a new book from Packt that will introduce users to the rich and powerful features of WordPress, and get them started with a state-of-the-art blog as quickly as possible. Written by April Hodge Silver, this book will help users to customize and market their blog using WordPress as a CMS.

Developers will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. They will learn how to upgrade from older installations, and personalize and control the content of their website using feature-rich widgets and plug-ins.  In addition to this, users will manage the look and feel of their WordPress website with customized themes and templates.

Alfresco is an open source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. Packt's "Alfresco Developer Guide" will help customize Alfresco with actions, web scripts, web forms, workflows, and more. It will walk one through the customizations made as part of an enterprise-wide rollout of Alfresco; from custom actions to RESTful web scripts and everything in between. You would be able to learn to customize the entire Alfresco platform, including both Document Management and Web Content Management.

"Alfresco Developer Guide" is jam-packed with real-world, step-by-step examples to jump start your development. Implementing Alfresco usually involves extending the repository to accommodate your business-specific metadata and business logic. These extensions are done using some combination of Java, JavaScript, XML, and FreeMarker. This book takes you through a set of exercises as if you were rolling out and customizing the platform for a fictional organization called SomeCo, which wants to roll out Alfresco enterprise-wide. Each department has a set of requirements that need addressed. This book will show you how to extend Alfresco to meet these requirements.

Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a new book from Packt that guides readers to customize, use, and administer websites using the Alfresco CMS platform. Written by a team of four Content Management experts, this book gives users a clear understanding about how to integrate external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, iGoogle, and Facebook to meet their Content Management needs.

Alfresco is one of the most popular Java-based Content Management System. Alfresco 3 is its upgraded version which includes Alfresco Surf, a new N-Tier Architecture, which delivers scalability and accommodates more users on existing hardware resources. Alfresco 3 offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) by providing an Open Source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, and Interwoven.

This book guides users through creating smart, collaborative content repositories and shows how to use Alfresco 3 to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. The book explains how administrators can set up Alfresco 3 for multiple business units as a single-instance multi-tenant environment.