Customizing Plugins in Joomla! 1.5x (Part 1)

Plugins are an essential, but rarely noticed part of a successful Joomla!-based business. Plugins are very flexible and can execute for various purposes at many different times. Part of this article by Daniel Chapman will be to look at these purposes and times, and understand how they can affect our web site by going through the following topics:

• plugin composition and operation
• plugin types
• plugin events
• plugin ordering
• plugin customization

We will also make some changes to an existing plugin so that it better meets our needs.

Customizing Look and Feel of UAG

UAG customizations can be very intense and deeply technical, but what everyone wants is for everything to look its best, right? The fact is, a large portion of UAG customers perform at least some adjustments to the appearance, even if it is just changing the title of the portal page. Look and feel customizations are considered to be rather well documented, as opposed to some of the more advanced stuff you will see later on in the book, but the purpose of this chapter is not to repeat that official documentation. We will be guiding you through the actual process, of course, but also suggesting some creative thoughts to get the message across in ways that you may have never thought of.

In this article by Erez Ben-Ari and Rainier Amara , the authors of Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization,the following topics will be covered:

• Visual customization overview
• Customizing the login and admin pages
• Customizing the portal
• Portal application icons
• Changing texts
• Adding a user-interface language
• Portal selection for clients

Customizing Kubrik with Wordpress

In this article by Peter Spannagle and Sarah Soward, authors of the book Wordpress and Flash 10x Cookbook, we will apply the knowledge of CSS stylesheets, template files, and template tags and make some changes to the default Kubrik theme.

Customizing Graphics and Creating a Bar Chart and Scatterplot in R

The R Project for Statistical Computing (or just R for short) is a powerful data analysis tool. It is both a programming language and a computational and graphical environment.

R is free, open source software made available under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Unix operating systems.

The official R website is available at the following site:

http://www.r-project.org

In this article by John M. Quick, author of the book Statistical Analysis with R, you will learn how to:

• Create different charts, graphs, and plots in R
• Customize your R visuals using text, colors, axes, and legends

Customizing Drupal 6 Interface

Working on a site's interface to make it distinctive and attractive not only requires some technical know-how when it comes to Drupal, but as with any design-like task, it also needs some creativity. Your site, at the moment, is fully functional and doesn't look awful it's a bit plain, but it will get the job done. With a bit of effort, creating something entirely new is not out of the question, and Drupal comes with a host of features to make our lives easier.

If, like me, you enjoy working on the more creative aspects of a website, then this is really the article you have been waiting for. It's time to design, plan, and implement the visual environment in which users will be immersed. Creating a pleasing atmosphere in which to interact will certainly do a lot in terms of ensuring users are happy.

This article by David Mercer will discuss the following:

• Planning a web-based interface
• CSS
• Themes

Customizing and Extending Apache MyFaces ExtVal

This article by Bart Kummel, author of Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development, discusses how we can extend ExtVal by creating our own custom validation strategy. This article is a follow up on Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator, an article by the same author that is an introduction to ExtVal.

Customized Effects with jQuery 1.4

The jQuery library provides several techniques for adding animation to a web page. These include simple, standard animations that are frequently used and the ability to craft sophisticated custom effects. In this article by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer, authors of jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, we'll closely examine each of the effect methods, revealing all of the mechanisms jQuery has for providing customised visual feedback to the user.

Customization using ADF Meta Data Services

You know that you can change the way your application looks—and that you can deploy the same application to different users with different visual appearance. But your boss at DMC Solutions would like to be able to sell the XDM application to different customers, offering each of them a slightly different functionality.

Fortunately, ADF makes that easy through a feature known as customization.

This article by Sten E. Vesterli, author of Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development—Made Simple, explains how to set up an application for customization using ADF Meta Data Services and how to use the special JDeveloper "customization" role to perform the actual customization.

Custom Types in Documentum

In this article by Pawan Kumar, we look at the Custom Types in Documentum. We will see how to manage the custom types by looking at how to create a custom type and modify the custom type. We have also introduced the concept of data dictionary, which stores additional information about custom types.