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In this two-part article by Jean Baptiste-Jung, we shall learn how to enhance user experience and make your blog a better place for the visitors. In the first part we saw how to use paginator, highlight searched text in search results, and use the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress.

In this part, you will learn:

• Creating a drop-down menu for your categories
• Adding a breadcrumb to your theme
• Displaying related posts
• Displaying tabs on your sidebar

In this article by Jeff Cochran, we will be discussing about how to add security and membership to a Content Management system. we will divide this article in two parts. In this first part, we will cover configuring and using forms authentication, along with how to create the membership database and the login page.

In the previous part of the article by Hector R. Madrid, we learnt the basics of an External Table. It dealt with a brief description, procedure to create, and the compatibility of External Tables. In this part, we will discuss about the data transformation with External Tables. Finally, we will see the enhancements Oracle 11g has brought about in External Tables.

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that the 2009 Open Source Content Management System Award will be launched on August 3. This year’s competition will feature an increased prize fund of $24,000 and is expected to appeal to a broader range of projects.

In this two-part article by Hector R. Madrid, we will learn about the External Tables in Oracle 10g/11g Database. When working in data warehouse environments, the Extraction—Transformation—Loading (ETL) cycle frequently requires the user to load information from external sources in plain file format, or perform data transfers among Oracle database in a proprietary format. This requires the user to create control files to perform the load. As the format of the source data regularly doesn't fit the one required by the Data Warehouse, a common practice is to create stage tables that load data into the database and create several queries that perform the transformation from this point on, to take the data to its final destination.