Build a Custom CMS Blog System

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Build a Custom CMS Blog System

Over 17 hours of High Definition videos on the Building a Custom Blog Application

This 8 Section Tutorial is over 17 hours in length and consists of 68 sections on building a Custom Dynamic Blog application. Recorded in High Definition format with a screen resolution of 1280 x 720. It is recorded with the beginner in mind as Mike walks you step-by-step through building your dynamic Blog application.

This lesson series covers all the fundamentals of building a CMS system and many of the advanced techniques that are used when developing customer sites. You will learn how developers use PHP and MySQL to build dynamic websites that are fast, robust and SEO friendly for their customer deployments.

A complete section listing of the topics covered and a brief description of each section is listed below.

Once the series is completed you will have a fully functional Blog application that can be deployed to your web host for posting your blog entires to. And the real beauty is, you will have written it, from scratch, and fully understand how to expand and maintain it. You will no longer be at the mercy of an out-of-the-box-application that does not perform as you expect it too.

As with all my courses this course also includes all the slide presentations that I use throughout the training. The presentation are included in PDF format so that you can follow along with the discussions and make notes on the slides as we work through the training. I include all the exercise files for each lesson.

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Take your training with you. The downloads are included in mp4 format and can be played on all hand held devices that support mp4 videos.

In this lesson series we cover building a Content Management System (CMS) from scratch in the form of a Blog Application.

Build a Custom CMS Blog System

Section 1 - An Introduction and PreRequisites

Topic Name Length
An Introduction 5:20
The Project 11:10
Environment Set Up 8:20
Text Editors 12:06
Installing BootStrap 6:02
Chapter Length 42:58

Section 2 - Creating the Front End

Topic Name Length
Starting Our Page Structure 13:02
Connecting To The Database 14:42
Building the Home Page 11:15
Updating the Home Page 12:10
Code Re-Use (Refactoring) 25:05
Creating Our Pages 8:17
Starting Our Comment Area 14:35
Chapter Length 1:39:06

Section 3 - Adding a Dynamic Front-End

Topic Name Length
Header Navigation 20:28
Selected Category 13:16
Creating the Post Table and Sample Posts 11:45
Retrieving Posts from the Database 18:55
Adding Dynamic Alt Text 8:57
The Read More Button 5:29
Query By Category 9:16
Modify the Single Post Page 14:07
Adding a Comment 24:35
Correcting Comment ReSubmission 6:30
Chapter Length 2:13:18

Section 4 - Adding a Dynamic Front-End (con't)

Topic Name Length
Comments to a Post 22:04
Making SideBar Content Dynamic 15:42
Adding Code for our Search Bar 22:49
Building our Subscriber Form 31:43
Adding Unique Titles 19:39
Correct a Couple Issues 7:04
Chapter Length 1:59:01

Section 5 - Admin User Interface - Part 1

Topic Name Length
Creating the Administrator Dashboard 17:16
Dashboard Modifications - Part 1 19:25
Dashboard Modifications - Part 2 17:48
Dashboard Modifications - Part 3 14:52
Refactor Our Admin Code 8:42
Creating the Post Page 14:25
Creating the Comments Page 9:08
Creating the Category Page 4:19
Creating the Add Category Page 8:24
Creating the Add Post Page 21:55
Creating the Member Area 33:28
Creating the Member Page 12:24
Chapter Length 3:02:06

Section 6 - Admin User Interface - Part 2

Topic Name Length
View Recent Posts 37:20
Dynamically Populate Un-Approved Comments 20:39
Dynamically Populate Categories 11:24
Dynamically Populate Members 19:11
Custom Confirm Message - Part 1 31:16
Custom Confirm Message - Part 2 26:06
Delete Posts and Categories 16:07
Approve Comments 8:13
Correcting a Category Delete Issue 10:57
Joining Tables 7:54
Populating Our Posts Page 17:45
Chapter Length 3:26:52

Section 7 - Admin User Interface - Part 3

Topic Name Length
Adding New Posts - Part 1 35:17
Adding New Posts - Part 2 25:33
Editing Posts 34:41
Adding / Deleting Categories 21:42
Editing Categories 12:22
Deleting Members 10:03
Editing Members - Part 1 15:32
Editing Members - Part 2 22:37
Comments Section 18:16
Admin Area Clean Up 11:08
Chapter Length 3:27:11

Section 8 - Log In / Log Out

Topic Name Length
The Log In Page 17:02
Logging In 23:28
Configuring The Responses 6:42
Creating the Log Out Code 7:51
Loading the Admin Area 8:13
Securing the Admin Section 11:04
Configure the Comments 9:40
Chapter Length 1:24:00

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