Wow! eBook - Blog » Web Dev. http://www.wowebook.me Great ebook, great site! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:55:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WordPress Bundle http://www.wowebook.me/book/wordpress-bundle/ http://www.wowebook.me/book/wordpress-bundle/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:53:47 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.me/?p=17140 WordPress Bundle

Book Description

With this bundle you will master in no time. Three fresh eBooks contain Magazine’s best articles on , carefully prepared, edited and — of course — without advertising. “ Essentials”, “Mastering ” and “ Tutorials” will surely come in handy. All eBooks are available in PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket formats. This bundle really gets your career started.

“ Essentials” eBook (Techniques for Beginners) (164 pages)
If you want to find out how to extend the limitations of WordPress, this eBook for will help you improve your capabilities, so you can take full advantage of its flexibility. Learn how to build WordPress themes that sell, how to interact with the WordPress database, create a plugin, integrate with WordPress and use and to produce engaging experience and maintainable code.

“Mastering WordPress” eBook (166 pages)
This eBook explains advanced methods and techniques which go beyond front-end experience and show how to customize back-end for your needs as well. You will learn the definitive guide to WordPress hooks and custom fields, power tips for WordPress template developers, tips for WordPress plugin developers and comprehensive introduction to advanced layout templates.

“WordPress Tutorials” eBook (183 pages)
This eBook is filled with detailed techniques which will show you the step-by-step of various enhancement processes on WordPress publishing. Including tabs into the user interface, adding media elements, applying plug-ins and creating custom meta boxes are a few examples of what the eBook covers. You will learn how to create native admin tables and multisites, build a media site, use bbPress and integrate S3 with WordPress.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 164 + 166 + 183 pages
  • Publisher:  Media GmbH (2011)
  • Language: English
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Book Description

This bundle includes three eBooks that will help you master the various areas of CSS, and . Get the full hang of CSS: be it layouts, !important declarations, advanced CSS selectors, CSS specificity and inheritance, media queries or experimental CSS properties. The CSS eBook is a full compendium of advanced CSS techniques for professional developers.

Improve your knowledge with valuable lessons from practice and learn your way around the new techniques. Of course, all three eBooks are available in PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket formats.

“Mastering CSS” (eBook, 365 pages)
Are you stumped by the rather sophisticated nature of CSS? Getting a grip on this still dewy technology isn’t quite as hard as you might think. Connecting the dots is easier when you have all the vital facts within reach. And that’s what “Mastering CSS” is all about. This eBook offers 15 hand-picked articles that overflow with professional advice and that reflect the deep experience of the Magazine authors you trust — authors who know exactly what they’re writing about.

Stop hiding behind cross-browser compatibility issues, and launch a counterstrike. Tame those advanced CSS selectors; learn your way around media queries; pioneer the field of keyframe animations. Get in the game, and learn how to use advanced CSS typography, pseudo-classes and modern CSS layouts, while devising back-up solutions for older browsers.

  • Why We Should Start Using and 5 Today
  • CSS Three: Connecting the Dots
  • Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics
  • Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques
  • How to Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes
  • Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
  • !important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them
  • An Introduction to CSS3 Keyframe Animations
  • CSS Specificity and Inheritance
  • How to Use CSS3 Media Queries
  • Responsive : What It Is and How to Use It
  • The Future of CSS: Experimental CSS Properties
  • Technical Typography: Guidelines and Techniques
  • Future of CSS Typography
  • Using CSS3: Older Browsers and Common Considerations

“JavaScript Essentials” (eBook, 142 pages)
It’s not always easy for Web developers to make the right decisions when having to choose the right solution. Either while building a complex Web application or even by improving a , there are countless pre-built solutions available and picking one of them can be a burden sometimes. In this eBook we explain the most important issues that you should pay attention to by all means when selecting a solution, i.e. how stable, easy to customize, usable and accessible it is, whether it can be maintained in the future, what exactly is supported and how you can extend the functionalities on your own.

One of the many important issues considered in this book is the importance of reviewing your code and what to avoid when you are implementing in JavaScript. Maintaining strong coding standards and withdrawing your away from common errors should be the basic requests for the general quality of your solutions, and the articles we have selected will explain exactly how you can achieve this. One of the sections also advises to have your code reviewed by experts and check whether they may provide other solutions to the problems you’re experiencing.

Last but not least, you’ll get to know the guidelines for basic JavaScript animations better, as well as get along with the native JavaScript functions (Math, Array, String), shortcut notations etc.. Of course, we couldn’t leave out JavaScript events, implementation of anonymous functions, module patterns and interaction with the back end.

  • Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career
  • Lessons From A Review Of JavaScript Code
  • Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test
  • Ten Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript
  • The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation
  • A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript
  • Searchable Dynamic Content With Crawling

“Mastering jQuery” (eBook, 122 pages)
The explosion of JavaScript in the front-end scene has opened up the power of jQuery to a far wider audience than ever before. A script to find all links of a certain CSS class in a document and bind an event to them requires one single line of code instead of ten. Also, jQuery brings to the party its own , featuring a host of functions, methods and syntactical peculiarities.

In this eBook, you will learn how to combine JavaScript and jQuery with ’s GD library to create an image manipulation tool to upload an image, then crop it and finally save the revised version to the server. You will also be able to create your own bookmarklets, which are small JavaScript-powered applications. Typically used to extend the functionality of the browser and to interact with Web services, bookmarklets allow you to post onto your own WordPress or , submit any selected text to Google’s search function, or modify a current CSS code within a browser — just to cite a few!

Special attention is also given to jQuery plugins, which help save time and streamline as well as allow developers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. A good plugin saves countless hours, whereas a bad plugin leads to bugs that must be fixed and so takes more of of your time than actually building the component from scratch. With the help of this eBook, you will get the best hints on how to choose which plugins are really worth considering for your projects and which ones you should avoid.

  • Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery
  • Image Manipulation With jQuery And GD
  • Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery
  • jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In?
  • Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns

Book Details

  • Paperback: 365 + 142 +122 pages
  • Publisher:  Media GmbH (2011)
  • Language: English
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Book Description

Now, that’s quite a deal: get a professional eBook and templates for your corporate designs in one swoop! Our Corporate Bundle contains a eCommerce eBook, a Corporate Identity Pack (including a card design, a portfolio layout and stationary), a Swiss Retro Icon Set and a Corporate all in one swoop! If you were looking for professional tools to get your set up, this is the way to go — build your identity and start building a brand to be proud of. You’ll how strong the influence of a positive image is on your company reputation.

eCommerce eBook (256 pages)
and developing eCommerce websites is a puzzle with thousands of pieces.
In this book you’ll be studying the universal principles for successful eCommerce websites, which include improving your check-out process and making your product displays more attractive. In reality, optimizing your conversion rates takes little effort. Find out how to resolve small usability issues to immense effect. Improve your conversion rates with A/B and multivariate ? Use them to figure out how customers respond to minimal changes in design, content structure and check-out convenience. Customers decide whether to stay on a page in just a few (milli)seconds, so you better make them count!

Corporate Identity Pack ( Files)
The set contains pre-formatted templates for every personalized stationary and practical corporate letterhead. A consistent appearance of a firm communicates a strong message: We know what we are dealing with.

The set is easily customizable with your own initials, name and corporate colors. Also, the set includes an A4 landscape brochure and an A5 flyer that you can use to present your portfolio. These files have a similar style to the stationary. With this set, you have all you need for a modern, consistent corporate identity. If you are about to launch your career or plan to open your first corporate office you should keep that in mind. The templates allow you to alter all elements according to your gusto. So, get your logo on those templates and get it out there.

The package contains the following (CS5) files:
A4 Letterhead
US Letter Letterhead
3.5×2″ Business card
2×3.5″ Business card
85×55 mm Business card
55×85 mm Business card
C5 Envelope
C6/C5 Envelope
9.5×4.125″ Envelope

Swiss Retro Icon Set (39 icons in 32×32px – 512×512px)
This high-quality icon set was designed with the intention of styling your eCommerce site in class Swiss design style. All PNG icons come in 5 sizes — better yet, they are adaptive and change shape or form in order to adjust to different displays. The “Rating” icons in particular change from a 5-star rating system at 128×128px and above, to a 3-star rating system at 64×64, and finally a vote-up / vote-down system at 32×32. The icons use the Chalet Comprime (Cologne Seventy) font by House Industries foundry. Treat your site to some retro style.

Almost all icons included in sizes 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256, and 512×512px.

Down arrow (alternative “download”)
Right arrow
Buy
Calendar
Download
Email
plaintext
logotext
Facebook singular icon
Favorites (not favorited)
Favorites (favorited)
Go
Home
Info
My account
My basket
New
Popular
Price
Question / Help
Rating (no stars)
Rating (1 star)
Rating (2 stars)
Rating (3 stars)
Rating (4 stars)
Rating (5 stars)
Rating – no votes (32×32 only)
Rating – voted up (32×32 only)
Rating – voted down (32×32 only)
RSS Full
RSS singular
Sale
Testimonials full
Testimonials singular
Twitter Plaintext
Twitter logo text
Twitter singular

Corporate
The bundle also includes a WordPress theme that provides the main functionality for online portfolios of designers, photographers and corporate identities. It could be a great skeleton for your corporate projects. The design includes very simple yet clean elements, a carefully selected combination of typefaces and appealing button shapes. A 34 page PDF documentation explains how to use the theme, configure the site and install plugins. The PSD files of the design are included to allow editing according to your needs. Live demo is available as well.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH (2010)
  • Language: English
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Book Description

This bundle includes a “” eBook which offers everything you need to keep up in the mobile . Helpful articles on mobile design practices and apps, along with practical tips on design from Magazine’s professional authors, are complemented by insight into responsive design techniques and an exclusive study on mobile design trends.

Additionally, this bundle comes with Pocket Template, a template for a mobile portfolio. Have your work with you at all times and feature your projects and pieces in an appropriate way. Impress your clients and get their attention with the mobile version of your portfolio.

“” eBook (304 pages)
You know it and so do your clients: taking mobile devices into account is a crucial requirement for the success of websites today. Advanced smartphones and tablets like the and are gaining popularity, and mobile Web usage is growing with no end in sight. Consequently, we are facing the challenge to create engaging mobile experiences, with state-of-the-art design solutions. This eBook offers everything you need to keep up in the mobile Web .

Helpful articles on mobile practices and iPhone apps, along with practical tips on design for mobile devices from Magazine’s professionals, are complemented by insight into responsive techniques and an exclusive study on mobile trends. Get set to market your own mobile application; be aware of common visual and contextual mistakes, and avoid usability slip-ups that could cost you precious clicks.

The content has been handpicked and edited according to Smashing Magazine’s high-quality standards. Take advice from the authors you trust and reap the rewards.

Pocket Portfolio ( Template)
This template comes with three skins and provides a solid foundation for showcasing your work “on the go”. The mobile portfolio can adapt to many mobile devices and is based on the 5 boilerplate using the latest Web technologies in order to reduce bandwidth usage. Impress your clients and show them your work in the run!

Save and present different projects, browse thumbnail galleries and view large images in a dynamic gallery mode. The three skins feature a jeans user surface, a light parquet flooring as well as a dark wooden surface. The Pocket Portfolio was carefully coded and includes an inline documentation to facilitate easy change and adaption of the mobile 5 template.

If you have been looking for an effective way of showing your work to clients and friends, you should consider installing the Pocket Portfolio. Have your personal portfolio with you at all times!

Book Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH (2010)
  • Language: English
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Book Description

If you are a professional designer, or looking for an expert advice on how to become one, this bundle is for you. The bundle contains four high-quality eBooks on the various areas: the technical, visual and side of design

“Modern and ” eBook (301 pages)
We’re seeing better interaction design and more aesthetically pleasing designs. And we’re seeing more personal, engaging and memorable sites, too. But what exactly is making the difference? What new directions is heading in today? What new techniques, concepts and ideas are becoming important?

This eBook contains 16 articles that cover current as well as upcoming Web design trends. It also includes facts on responsive Web design, improving Web security, useful coding tips and practices for and 3, responsive design, and much more! This eBook touches on what Web designers should be ready for to meet upcoming challenges and opportunities.

“Professional Web Design, Vol. 1″ eBook (242 pages)
This eBook presents guidelines for professional Web , including communicating with clients, creating a road map to a successful portfolio, rules for professional networking and tips on user interfaces for Web applications. The book shares expert advice and it also helps you learn how to respond effectively to design criticism, use storytelling for a better user experience and apply color theory to your professional designs.

“Professional Web Design, Vol 2″ eBook (279 pages)
The pace at which the Web rolls today has picked up, and we feel obliged to give you a status report and outlook. This eBook focuses on recent changes in Web development, as well as design trends that are likely to catch on and could have a substantial effect on our workflow.

Be prepared for the onset of innovative approaches such as responsive Web design, and learn how to apply psychology-based persuasion triggers in your designs. Clear up some myths about and 3, and make use of the “design matrix” methodology.

This eBook describes existing and upcoming trends, and explains how Web design could evolve in the coming months and years. It also touches on what Web designers should be ready for and how to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities.

“Getting the Hang of Web Typography” eBook (242 pages)
This eBook is dedicated to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This eBook gives you the necessary background on macro- and microtypography, it helps you to choose suitable fonts and use modern techniques such as Web font embedding. It’s a valuable book that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

The implications of desktop publishing, where anybody who has access to a computer can set type, have led to a flood of poorly designed brochures, flyers and web pages. In Web design especially illegible text, incorrect use of punctuation marks and inappropriate font combinations or use of line widths are frequent. The new techniques that Web fonts offer might bring about even worse examples of ugly and illegible Web typography.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 309 + 242 + 279 + 242 pages
  • Publisher:  Media GmbH (2011)
  • Language: English
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]]> http://www.wowebook.me/book/web-design-bundle/feed/ 0 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, 2nd Edition http://www.wowebook.me/book/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-2nd-edition/ http://www.wowebook.me/book/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-2nd-edition/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:41 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.me/?p=17094 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, 2nd Edition

Book Description

31 Days to Build a Better is a 31 day challenge where you’re given a daily piece of teaching and an achievable activity to go away and implement – all of which is designed to rejuvenate your .

You can take the challenge at your own pace – some do it daily over a month, others tackle it in a more intense way over a week or others dip into it over a number of months – the key is to learn the key strategies for successful blogging and more importantly to DO something with what you learn.

By the end of the 31 steps you’ll have:

  • published a variety of different types and styles of posts
  • learned techniques for coming up with new post ideas
  • promoted your in a variety of ways and found new readers
  • deepened reader engagement with current readers
  • reached out to and developed working relationships with other bloggers
  • developed an editorial calendar for your blog going forward
  • discovered ways to be more connected to your niche/topic
  • designed a plan for the next month of your blogging
  • … and much more.

Updated for 2012
Many thousands of ProBlogger readers have invested in edition 1 of 31DBBB but as it was written back in 2009 I felt it was time for an update. So much has changed since then both here on ProBlogger and in the blogosphere that I wanted to create something that built upon and enhanced version 1.

In this freshly designed and layed out 2nd edition you’ll get

  • all 31 tasks that were in the first edition – but they’ve all been updated and refreshed for 2012.
  • 7 brand new days (so now you’re really getting 38 days – we’re including 7 in a new bonus week PDF)
  • Case studies of blogs, big and small, who are doing it right. Get insights into blogs you may not have heard of, and learn from their expertise
  • Every task includes links to further information, reading and intelligence on the topic
  • integration with media – each day has its own hashtag so you can connect with others doing the challenge to learn from and support one another

This 140 page workbook is all about action – follow the daily tasks and we guarantee you’ll your blog improve. Quite literally we’re happy to give your back if you go through it and don’t notice the changes!

Book Details

  • Paperback: 140 pages
  • Publisher: ProBlogger (November 2011)
  • Language: English
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Book Description

is a powerful platform for creating rich media applications and line of applications for the and desktop. enables you to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Indicators for your .

Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight.

This book provides user experience design topics and starts by providing an overview of the Silverlight Platform and the clear advantages it provides for building dashboards. The book then dives into topics such as Silverlight design and tools, building a basic Dashboard, Dashboard types and user needs, for Insight, Styling, Building an End to End Dashboard Solution and Data Access Strategies amongst others.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn how to create custom user controls, reference resources, and edit basic control templates
  • Build an end-to-end dashboard solution
  • Learn how to use Microsoft Expression Blend to style a dashboard
  • Explore the different types of dashboards, and learn how to choose the most appropriate dashboard type based on your goals
  • Discover and represent user needs and scenarios as a basis for dashboard design, using user experience best practices
  • Understand how to determine between the different data access strategies (, , and OData)
  • Host and use Silverlight WebParts and the Client Object Model

Approach
This book is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight.

Who this book is for
If you are a developer who wants to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight, then this book is for you. You should have an intermediate understanding of development, with a working knowledge of Microsoft Silverlight.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849682348
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849682343
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Book Description

Wireframes, interactive prototypes, and specifications are among the fundamental deliverables of every . They are also the most labor and time intensive to produce due to constant changes in requirements. Given these circumstances, is quickly taking over as the preferred tool for prototyping. However, prototyping in is strikingly different from the conventional method of producing static wireframes and to rapidly develop interactive prototypes in , you’ll need to have a good understanding of the tool and its features.

Whether you are an individual practitioner or a member of a team, a consultant, or an employee, this book will teach you how to use , one of the leading tools. You will learn to use Axure for producing top-quality deliverables and tackling the demands of rapid iterative projects of any complexity and size, and for any platform and device.

Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials takes a very pragmatic approach to showing you how to use Axure and produce impressive deliverables while saving labor and time. You may not be in a position to change how projects are scheduled, budgeted, and managed, but you can be more creative and productive by mastering one of the leading UX tools in the market.

After an initial introduction to Axure’s user interface, terminology, and features, this book walks you through a medium-size UX : a digital library that sells books, newspapers, and movies. Although some aspects of the prototyping process are simplified for the sake of clarity and efficiency, the demo is an opportunity to discuss in context and in sequence topics such as addressing and technical requirements, handling use cases and flow diagrams, low and high fidelity wireframe construction, interactivity, writing annotations, generating detailed UX specifications, and traceability.

For the most part, Axure 6 RP Prototyping Essentials can be read in sequence or used as a reference guide.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn the essential principles of prototyping
  • Construct well-formed wireframes
  • Create interactive prototypes in low and high fidelity
  • Manage iterative design workflow
  • Annotate and generate UX specifications documents
  • Team work: Develop UX prototypes using Axure’s collaboration features
  • Use and create custom widgets and libraries for interaction and visual design patterns
  • Plan and organize your to support complex, multiple-phased projects

Approach
Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials is a detailed, practical primer on the leading rapid prototyping tool. Short on jargon and high on concepts, real-life scenarios and step-by-step guidance through hands-on examples, this book will show you how to integrate Axure into your UX workflow.

Who this book is for
This book is written for UX practitioners, business analysts, product managers, and anyone else who is involved in UX projects. The book assumes that you have no or very little familiarity with Axure. It will help you if you are evaluating the tool for an upcoming project or are required to quickly get up to speed in a project you just joined. The book assumes some familiarity with the principles of the User Centred Design methodology.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 446 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849691649
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849691642
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Book Description

We are on the verge of a revolution. The is becoming the main developing platform and the primary source for information and software. In recent years, mobile devices have turned Internet applications from possibilities into necessities, and now computers that work exclusively on the are being developed and sold. The software for the is getting more sophisticated than ever and is replacing desktop applications once and for all. This level of change is both experimental and radical, and is making it possible.

for Masterminds leads the reader step by step to gain essential knowledge and to master complex subjects included in the specification. After reading this book, you will know how to structure your documents with , how to style them with and how to work with the most powerful APIs.

This book is not an introduction of 5 but instead a complete course that will teach you how to build compelling websites and amazing applications from scratch. Every chapter explores basic concepts as well as complicated issues of 5, and . Concepts are supported by fully functional codes to guide beginners and experts through every single tag, style or function included in the specification. The codes are distributed throughout the book in a specific order to gradually introduce complex subjects and make them accessible to everyone.

The goal of HTML5 for Masterminds is to make you familiar with the most advanced technology for the web. It was developed to prepare you for the future, and it was written for the genius inside you… for Masterminds.

This Book Includes:

  • 297 codes explained
  • 16 Quick References, one at the end of every chapter to find and review its content

This Book Covers:

  • Drag and Drop
  • Geolocation API
  • Web Storage API
  • API
  • File API
  • Communication API ( Level 2, Cross-Document Messaging, WebSocket API)
  • Web Workers API
  • History API
  • Offline API
  • New HTML5 Elements
  • Traditional and Flexible Box Model
  • Element
  • Element
  • Media API
  • New Form Elements
  • Form Validation
  • Form API
  • 3 Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • 3 Shadows, Fonts, Colors, Gradients, Translation, Transformation
  • Javascript New Selectors
  • Javascript New Standards
  • External Libraries

Book Details

  • Paperback: 418 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 146360405X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1463604059
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Book Description

You can use the 7 content system to build a small quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, , application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more from your .

7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in .

You’ll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you’ll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar.

The book will then teach you to add to your site so you can sell your products online. You’ll add videos and to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers.

The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install and set up Drupal
  • Add blogs to attract customers to your business site
  • Add customer accounts to your site
  • Incorporate e-commerce in your site to sell your products online using and the new Commerce modules.
  • Integrate , videos, and e-newsletter with your site which will help you increase your profits
  • Insert online surveys and polls in your site to improve business through customer feedback
  • Take care of and maintain your site.

Approach
This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete business website using Drupal and enhancing it to include modern technology used by cutting-edge companies. All instructions are written in such a way that they make sense to readers of any technical level.

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to set up a website quickly for their business using the super powerful Drupal content software.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 378 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849516642
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516648
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Book Description

The greatest strength of lies in its design which, when employed correctly, allows developers to literally handcraft every aspect of a site, so that it looks and performs exactly how they want it to. While it is reasonably straightforward to download a and install it, doing anything beyond that is not. Using custom themes requires familiarity and experience with ’s theming system, especially if you want to easily administer and maintain your themes.

7 Theming provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of its extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide which will allow users to take full advantage of Drupal’s theming system.

This starts with recipes which address the basics of Drupal’s system, including regions and blocks. It then moves on to advanced topics such as creating a custom and using it to modify the layout and style of content. With the introduction of the Field and the growing importance of Views and Panels in Drupal 7, chapters have been dedicated to each feature. You will also learn many techniques for dealing with Drupal’s templating system, which will allow you create themes which surpass even the existing Drupal and contributed modules.

What you will learn from this book

  • Improve your knowledge of the basics of Drupal theming such as installing and enabling a downloaded theme, changing the logo, and adding a slogan
  • Customize the look of your by configuring and extending your existing themes with sub-themes
  • Create custom themes from scratch for websites that demand a fresh look
  • Use the Template theming engine to override module output and style it using a theme
  • Style and manipulate the content of your by adding and files via themes and modules
  • Manipulate images on the fly using the Image and the Image module
  • Jazz up the design of your site by incorporating elements
  • Design complex site layouts rapidly with Panels

Approach
Part of Packt’s Cookbook series, this book offers solutions to common theme design problems in the form of recipes. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions and screenshots. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can refer to each recipe in no particular order.

Who this book is for
This book is for Drupal developers and administrators who want to refresh the look and feel of their site. We assume that readers are familiar with basic , , and as well as the general use of Drupal.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849516766
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516761
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Book Description

2011 offers you access to exciting new interactive and flexible Dashboards that contain any combination of Charts, Lists, iFrames and components. These can be used to easily visualize your CRM data and provide you with a light BI interface, all of which this practical will enable you to utilize.

At first glance, Dashboards and their myriad information can be overwhelming to users that are new to the 2011 interface. This book guides you through navigating and interacting with Dashboards in a simple and easy to follow manner, and builds on that experience to walk you through creating and sharing your own User Dashboards.

“ Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards ” offers a range of practical recipes for mastering dashboard navigation, interaction, and building custom Dashboards in Dynamics CRM. You will immediately get to grips with essential tasks like changing Dashboard settings and sharing Dashboards with other members in the CRM team, as well as adding custom components like iFrames and Lists. Along the way you will also follow the creation of a simple WebResouce that can be added to your Dashboard.

By the end of “Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook”, you will be fully equipped to take advantage of the exciting new Dashboards features of Dynamics CRM 2011.

What you will learn from this book

  •  Quickly get up and running with navigation and basic interaction with Dashboards in the Dynamics CRM 2011 interface
  •  Drill down and focus on slices of data that are represented in Dashboard Charts
  •  Learn to filter and sort data records when viewed in combination with a Chart component
  •  Master both the creation of a new User Dashboard and personalizing the layouts of an existing Dashboard
  •  Take advantage of sharing and assigning User Dashboards to other CRM users and teams
  •  Manipulate your User Dashboard by editing Chart and List components
  •  Tackle working with iFrames, WebResources, and SSRS from a Dashboard
  •  Extend the data on your dashboard with advanced Chart

Approach
“Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook” is packed with practical step-by-step recipes covering tasks which utilize all of the new dashboard features of Dynamics CRM 2011.

Who this book is for
If you are a developer who is excited about creating, customizing, and Dashboards in Dynamics CRM 2011, this book is for you.

You should be comfortable with general Dynamics CRM functionality for this or a previous release.
This book may also be valuable to End Users and Power Users interested in the new Dashboard features of this release.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 266 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849684405
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849684408
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Book Description

Physics for Games, , and Simulations teaches programmers how to incorporate real physics into their animations, games, user interfaces, and simulations.

  • Introduces Flash physics in an accurate, but approachable way, covering what is required to produce physically realistic simulations (as opposed to animations that look roughly right)
  • Packed full of practical examples of how physics can be applied to your own games and applications
  • Addresses the diverse needs of developers, animators, artists, and e-learning developers

The book assumes a basic knowledge of and Flash. However, no previous knowledge of physics is required—only some very basic math skills. The authors present everything from basic principles to advanced concepts, so you’ll be able to follow the logic and easily adapt the principles to your own applications. The book builds on your physics knowledge, enabling you to create not only visual effects, but also more complex models and simulations.

What you’ll learn

  • Basic math and physics you’ll need to incorporate realism into your games, animations and simulations
  • How to incorporate a wide range of forces, including environmental forces such as gravity and friction, and forces due to fluids, such as drag and upthrust
  • How to build a number of realistic simulations, like submarines and flight simulators
  • How to model particle systems and use them for generative art and to create effects, such as smoke
  • Numerical subtleties, including accuracy and stability of integration schemes and handling boundary conditions properly; and how and when to use approximations and analytical solutions

Who this book is for
Flash developers interested in incorporating real physics into their games, animations, simulations or generative art projects.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Physics
  2. Selected ActionScript 3.0 Topics
  3. Some Math Background
  4. Basic Physics Concepts
  5. The Laws Governing Motion
  6. Gravity, Orbits, and Rockets
  7. Contact and Fluid Forces
  8. Restoring Forces: Springs and Oscillations
  9. Centripetal Forces: Rotational Motion
  10. Long-Range Forces
  11. Collisions
  12. Particle Systems
  13. Extended Objects
  14. Numerical Integration Schemes
  15. Other Technical Issues
  16. Simulation Projects

Book Details

  • Paperback: 558 pages
  • Publisher: friendsofED (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430236744
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430236740
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Book Description

Pro is a collection of hard-won lessons the authors have learned managing modern projects with small and medium budgets in a consulting environment. This isn’t a book about theory. Pro Web Project Management tells how to create real deliverables, get answers from indecisive clients, manage wayward programmers, and use checklists to wow clients. This book is made up of real examples, real lessons, real documents, and real tips woven together into a step-by-step walkthrough of a project’s life cycle.

Pro Web Project Management is written for both the full-time project manager and the aspiring project manager who might have a role that blends client support, web , and project management. The project budget sweet spot for this book is $50,000 to $500,000. If you manage a project in this space, reading this book will make you a better project manager.

  • Learn how to manage a modern web project with a budget of $50,000 to $500,000
  • Get actionable tips on dealing with real project management challenges
  • Learn the simple, defined process—refined over the years—to take simple and complex projects from proposal to successful launch

What you’ll learn

  • How to run an effective meeting
  • How to write scopes of work that lead to successful projects
  • How to create awesome screen mock-ups and wire frames
  • How to use checklists to ensure successful project launches
  • How to create deliverables like site maps, agendas, technical specifications, and requirements documents
  • How to keep developers on track without micro-managing

Who this book is for
Pro Web Project Management is for project managers, project managers in training, and client sponsors that need real advice, tips, and guidance on small and medium-sized projects. It’s an excellent choice for consulting organizations that build web sites and web applications for clients.

Table of Contents

  1. The Project Lifecycle
  2. The Project Definition & Scope of Work
  3. Meetings, Meetings, Meetings
  4. Discovery and Requirements
  5. Project Schedule & Budgeting
  6. Running the Project
  7. Technical Specification
  9. Quality Assurance &
  10. Deployment
  11. Support and Operations

Book Details

  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430240830
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430240839
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Book Description

Finally, Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide from Planning to Finished Site

The content system offers amazing flexibility, sophistication, and power. The catch? Many first-time users find it difficult to get started, and most books don’t help with the initial stages. Drupal™ User’s Guide is different: easy to use, fun to read, practical, and complete!

Long-time Drupal site developer Emma Jane Hogbin guides you through every step of building sites with Drupal, from installation and site planning through launching your first site. Drawing on her experience teaching thousands of beginners, she covers both Drupal and design tasks, showing exactly how they fit together.

Drupal™ User’s Guide shows how to use Drupal 7’s newest improvements to build more modern, manageable sites for any or organization. Hogbin covers crucial topics other Drupal books ignore, including and accessibility.

  • Walk through installing Drupal on Mac OS X and Linux servers
  • Get comfortable with Drupal 7’s new administrative interface
  • Build a basic site in minutes
  • Create S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) site goals
  • Audit your existing content so you can make the most of it
  • Explore, choose, and customize Drupal themes
  • Walk through building a community site with private discussion area
  • Build a complete association directory site
  • Use Web forms to capture and display any kind of content
  • Take advantage of Drupal’s powerful Views module
  • Choose the right Drupal and third-party modules to build virtually any site
  • Optimize your site for Google and other search engines
  • Use advanced techniques to improve your visitors’ experiences

If you want to create great sites with Drupal–with no hassle, no confusion, and no degree in computer science–this is the book for you!

Book Details

  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137041292
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137041299
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Book Description

It’s true: if you know , , and , you already have the tools you need to develop applications. Now updated for 5, the second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to use standards to design and build apps that can be adapted for any device.

You’ll learn how to create an Android-friendly app on the platform of your choice, and then use Adobe’s free framework to convert it to a native Android app. Discover why device-agnostic are the wave of the future, and start building apps that offer greater flexibility and a much broader reach.

  • Convert a into a web application, complete with progress indicators and other features
  • Add with JQTouch to make your web app look and feel like a native Android app
  • Make use of client-side data storage with apps that run when the Android device is offline
  • Use to hook into advanced Android features, including the accelerometer, geolocation, and alerts
  • Test and debug your app on the Web with real users, and submit the finished product to the Android Market

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Basic Styling
Chapter 3. Advanced Styling
Chapter 4.
Chapter 5. Client-Side Data Storage
Chapter 6. Going Offline
Chapter 7. Going Native
Chapter 8. Submitting Your App to the Android Market

Appendix. Detecting Browsers with WURFL
Colophon

Book Details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449316417
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449316419
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Book Description

You’ll a full spectrum of cutting-edge development techniques, from UI and eye candy recipes to solutions for data analysis, , and hosting.

Make buttons and content stand out with simple cross- styles; do animations that work on mobile devices without plugins; build and test HTML emails; and build a flexible layout that works on desktops and mobile devices. You’ll use the Backbone and Knockout JavaScript frameworks to build responsive user interfaces, and you’ll learn how tools like and offer better ways to develop and maintain your client-side code. You’ll write tests for your code that run in multiple web browsers, use Git to keep track of your work, and even get a little one-on-one time with the .

Whether you’re new to front-end development, or you’ve got a few years of experience, you’ll become a more versatile developer by finding out how–and why–to use these solutions in your next web development project.

What you need:
Your favorite text editor, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or higher, Google Chrome or Safari, and a working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.

About the Author
Brian P. Hogan is an author, editor, trainer, and web developer who’s been building web sites professionally since 1995 as a freelancer and consultant. He enjoys teaching and writing about technology, particularly , accessibility, and development. When not hacking on Ruby or JavaScript code, he’s writing songs, watching “The Simpsons,” or spending quality time with his wife and daughters.

Chris Warren is a developer and support lead at Zencoder. He’s been creating websites since teaching himself HTML in 1998, and after stints with ASP and ColdFusion development he came across Ruby and Rails. In addition to he enjoys cycling, photography, and going on adventures with his wife.

Mike Weber is a web developer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He’s been developing professionally since 2005, almost exclusively with Ruby on Rails. When not counting whitespace he enjoys running, swimming and golfing as well as spending time with his wife and dog.

Chris Johnson is a web developer and technology consultant living outside of Madison, Wisconsin. He has been developing websites professionally since 2003 when he got his first paycheck as a freelancer. When he’s not developing, he enjoys tinkering with technology and mechanical things, photography, games, playing hockey and spending time with his wife and their two dogs.

Aaron Godin is a programmer and designer. If he’s not deep in a Rails application or in Ruby, he spends his time working with all things front-end. Besides being a Macophile, his other interests include electronic music, martial arts, skateboarding, and making fun of commercials.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1934356832
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934356838
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Book Description

Written by creator Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin, Pragmatic Guide to shows you how to you to improve your , from the basics to advanced topics, from first installation to sprucing up your buttons. You’ll how to code the right way in thanks to short, clear examples. Two-page spreads show the explanation on one side and code examples on the other. You’ll learn how to improve your pages in minutes.

You’ll be able to perform amazing feats of including using variables, calculating layouts, and modifying colors. Did you ever want to make a color 10% less saturated? We’ll show you how to do that without needing a calculator.

Plus, learn about Compass, ’s library of carefully built hacks, reusable parts, and frameworks. Find out how to shortcut cross- issues and develop mixins for shortening text and making lists more exciting. You’ll wonder how you spent all those years styling sites without it!

Make things even easier with Blueprint, and discover how to use its predefined classes that you can apply to your site. From selector scoping to bundling, debugging, and custom functions, Pragmatic Guide to Sass will help you build the pages you’ve always wanted.

What You Need:

  • An installation of Sass and Compass
  • Some basic command line knowledge

About the Author
Hampton Catlin is the co-creator of Sass, a CSS generating language, and the Haml markup language. He is the original creator of Wikipedia Mobile (m.wikipedia.org) and is also the creator of several successful applications including Dictionary!

Michael Lintorn Catlin is a Biologist and PhD dropout. He holds one masters from the University of Oxford in biochemistry and another masters from the University of Cambridge in developmental biology.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 100 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1934356840
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934356845
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Book Description

A significant update to a bestselling book

As the key scripting language for the , is supported by every modern and allows developers to create client-side scripts that take advantage of features such as animating the tag and enabling client-side storage and application caches. After an in-depth introduction to the JavaScript language, this updated edition of a bestseller progresses to break down how JavaScript is applied for using the latest technologies. Veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas Zakas shows how JavaScript works with the new as well as other significant advances in development as it relates to JavaScript.

  • Begins with an introduction to JavaScript basics and then moves on to more advanced topics regarding JavaScript and advances in development technologies
  • Describes how JavaScript is implemented into
  • Covers /feature detection in scripts, event-driven JavaScript development, error reporting and debugging, offline application and data storage, and more

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition is an authoritative JavaScript resource that every web developers should have.

From the Back Cover
Get up to date on the latest ways to use JavaScript in web development

If you want to achieve JavaScript’s full potential, it is critical to understand its nature, history, and limitations. To that end, this updated version of the bestseller by veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas C. Zakas covers JavaScript from its very beginning to the present-day incarnations including the , , and 5. Zakas shows you how to extend this powerful language to meet specific needs and create dynamic user interfaces for the web that blur the line between desktop and internet. By the end of the book, you’ll have a strong understanding of the significant advances in web development as they relate to JavaScript so that you can apply them to your next .

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers:

  • Offers a detailed discussion of the components that make up a JavaScript implementation
  • Zeroes in on new and emerging APIs such as the Selectors , Web Workers, and Cross-Document Messaging
  • Explores in JavaScript
  • Shows how to implement drag and drop file upload with and the File
  • Highlights the new core language features introduced in ECMAScript5
  • Explains how to work with data formats such as and
  • Looks at what’s coming in ECMAScript Harmony
  • Walks you through creating offline-capable web applications

Book Details

  • Paperback: 960 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox; 3rd Edition (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118026691
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118026694
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Book Description

Foundation with covers everything that you need to know to create dynamic scripted using the . It provides information on all the relevant math you’ll need, before moving on to physics concepts like acceleration, velocity, easing, springs, collision detection, conservation of momentum, , and forward and inverse kinematics. Foundation 5 Animation with is a fantastic resource for all developers working in 5 or switching over from to create standards-compliant games, applications, and animations that will work across all modern browsers and most mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, and devices.

You will learn how to utilize the amazing animation and physics-based code originally created by author Keith Peters in his hugely successful Foundation Animation in all of your HTML5 applications. In no time at all, you’ll understand the concepts behind scripted animation and also have the ability to create all manner of exciting animations and games.

What you’ll learn

  • All the JavaScript and HTML5 code (including math and trigonometry functions) you’ll need to start animating with code
  • Basic motion principles like velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing
  • How to handle user interactions via the keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen
  • Advanced motion techniques like springs, coordinate rotation, conservation of momentum, and forward and inverse kinematics
  • All the basic concepts you’ll need for in HTML5 (without )—from simple perspective to full 3D solids, complete with backface culling and dynamic lighting

Who this book is for
This book is a fantastic resource for all developers working in HTML5 or switching over from to create standards-compliant games, applications, and animations that will work across all modern browsers and most mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, and devices.

Table of Contents

  1. Basic Animation Concepts
  2. Basics of JavaScript for Animation
  3. HTML5 and graphics
  4. Trigonometry for Animation
  5. Velocity and Acceleration
  6. Boundaries and Friction
  7. User Interaction: Moving Objects Around
  8. Easing and Springing
  9. Collision Detection
  10. Coordination Rotation and Bouncing Off Angles
  11. Billiard Ball Physics
  12. Particle Attraction and Gravity
  13. Forward Kinematics: Making Things Walk
  14. Inverse Kinematics: Dragging and Reaching
  15. 3D Basics
  16. 3D Lines and Fills
  17. Backface Culling and 3D Lighting
  18. Matrix Math
  19. Tips and Tricks

Book Details

  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: friendsofED (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430236655
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430236658
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