Your New Homepage

Navigate to your site's homepage in your browser. For our newly installed PHP-Nuke site, this will be http://localhost/nuke/. You should be presented with the following screen, which we saw at the end of the last chapter:

Considering that we've not really done anything, this is impressive. I'm sure you won't be able to resist clicking on some of these links and seeing what PHP-Nuke has in store for us. Currently, the system is 'empty', so it has a rather cold and eerie feeling about it. Rest assured that it will start to warm up over the next few chapters as we add content to the site.

Note

By the way, if you are impressed with the features you're seeing right now, let me tell you that there are others that haven't yet been activated. Also, there are many other add-ons that we can find from various PHP-Nuke resource sites across the Internet.

Let's now talk about some of the PHP-Nuke bits that we see on the front page.

First of all, there's the look of the page. There is the banner at the top, a site logo, and a horizontal navigation bar:

The page 'body' begins below the navigation bar. You can see a three-column layout with a big chunk of information in the middle column. The page layout of a PHP-Nuke site need not always look this; the arrangement of the elements, the choice of color, text styles, and images is controlled by the theme. A different theme can be selected for the site, and immediately, the look and feel of your site is changed.