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Getting Good with PHP
This book isn’t meant to be the super extreme, all-encompassing book which will make you become one with PHP. But if you know nothing at all about PHP and want to get comfy with it as quickly as possible, then I think this book is definitely for you. Although it won’t make you an expert, it will take you all the way to the advanced beginner state, getting you to a point where you’ll be comfortable writing PHP scripts for your own websites and ready to digest more advanced PHP topics.
Building WordPress Themes from Scratch
Building WordPress Themes From Scratch, and what started out as a simple, open source blogging platform has now become a super-powerful content management system (CMS) that can boast that it’s the most widely-used CMS on the Internet. In this book, I plan to teach you how to use WordPress, as well as how to leverage the API to create your own custom themes, plugins, and content types. In other words, I will show you how to make WordPress your own.”
Decoding HTML5
This book focuses less on the politics of HTML5 (though it does touch on this), and more on the ways to immediately integrate HTML5 —and its friends—into your web projects. If you’re in need of a book that will get you up and running with many of the new tags, form elements, and JavaScript APIs as quickly as possible, then this is the book for you.
Joomla! 1.5: Beginner’s Guide
Create a web site that meets real-life requirements by following the creation of an example site with the help of easy-to-follow steps and ample screenshots. Practice all the Joomla! skills from organizing your content to completely changing the site’s looks and feel. Go beyond a typical Joomla! site to make the site meet your specific needs. Get to grips with inspiring examples and best practices and implement them to enhance your Joomla! site.
Magento: Beginner’s Guide
Overview of Magento: Beginner’s Guide Step-by-step guide to building your own online store Focuses on the key features of Magento that you must know to get your store up and running Customize the store’s appearance to make it uniquely yours Clearly illustrated with screenshots and a working example.
Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2
Overview of Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2 -Learn all the key concepts and terminology of ExpressionEngine: channels, templates, snippets, and more. Use RSS to make your content available in news readers including Google Reader, Outlook, and Thunderbird. Manage your ExpressionEngine website, including backups, restores, and version updates.Written in an easy-to-follow step-by-step style, with plenty of examples and exercises.
PHP 5 E-commerce Development
Overview of PHP 5 E -commerce Development – Build a flexible e-commerce framework using PHP , which can be extended and modified for the purposes of any e-commerce site. Enable customer retention and more business by creating rich user experiences. Develop a suitable structure for your framework and create a registry to store core objects. Promote your e-commerce site using techniques with APIs such as Google Products or Amazon web services, SEO , marketing, and customer satisfaction.
WordPress 3 Site Blueprints
Overview of WordPress 3 Site Blueprints – Everything you need to build a varied collection of feature-rich customized WordPress websites for yourself. Transform a static website into a dynamic WordPress blog. In-depth coverage of several WordPress themes and plugins. Packed with screenshots and step-by-step instructions to help you complete each site.
Drupal 7
Overview of Drupal 7 – Set up, configure, and deploy a Drupal 7 website. Easily add exciting and powerful features. Design and implement your website’s look and feel. Promote, manage, and maintain your live website. In-depth coverage of Drupal’s new core features, including image handling and fields. Extended media coverage. Completely new coverage on Views. Improved and updated coverage on themes and theming. Over 150 online quiz questions and exercises included. Revised and updated for Drupal 7 based on comments from thousands of readers.
jQuery Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide
Overview of jQuery Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide – Utilize jQuery’s plugin framework to create a wide range of useful jQuery plugins from scratch. Understand development patterns and best practices and move up the ladder to master plugin development. Discover the ins and outs of some of the most popular jQuery plugins in action. A Beginner’s Guide packed with examples and step-by-step instructions to quickly get your hands dirty in developing high quality jQuery plugins.
Facebook Graph API Development with Flash
Overview of Facebook Graph API Development with Flash – Build your own interactive applications and games that integrate with Facebook. Add social features to your AS3 projects without having to build a new social network from scratch. Learn how to retrieve information from Facebook’s database. A hands-on guide with step-by-step instructions and clear explanation that encourages experimentation and play.
WordPress 3 Complete
Overview of WordPress 3 Complete – Learn everything you need for creating your own feature-rich website or blog from scratch. Clear and practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress. In-depth coverage of installation, themes, plugins, and syndication. Explore WordPress as a fully functional content management system. Clear, easy-to-follow, concise; rich with examples and screenshots.
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Overview of Joomla! 1.6 First Look – A short and concise first look into Joomla! 1.6. Covers changes in all aspects of Joomla! including interface, menus, templates, and extensions. Ample screenshots and clear explanations of all the new features and their usage.
concrete5 Beginner’s Guide
Overview of concrete5 Beginner’s Guide – Follow the creation of a sample site, through the installation, configuration, and deployment of a Concrete5 site. Use themes and add-ons to create a personalized site. Ideal introduction to using the Concrete5 CMS. Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series – lots of practical examples, screenshots, and less of the waffle.
CakePHP Application Development
Overview of CakePHP Application Development – Develop cutting-edge Web 2.0 applications, and write PHP code in a faster, more productive way. Walk through the creation of a complete CakePHP Web application. Customize the look and feel of applications using CakePHP layouts and views. Make interactive applications using CakePHP, JavaScript, and AJAX helpers. Ready for the forthcoming release of CakePHP 1.2.
Object-Oriented JavaScript
Overview of Object-Oriented JavaScript – Learn to think in JavaScript, the language of the web browser. Object-oriented programming made accessible and understandable to web developers. Do it yourself: experiment with examples that can be used in your own scripts. Write better, more maintainable JavaScript code.
jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide
Overview of jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide – Quickly look up features of the jQuery library. Step through each function, method, and selector expression in the jQuery library with an easy-to-follow approach. Understand the anatomy of a jQuery script. Write your own plug-ins using jQuery’s powerful plug-in architecture.
ASP.NET MVC 2 Cookbook
Overview of ASP .NET MVC 2 Cookbook – Solutions to the most common problems encountered with ASP .NET MVC development. Build and maintain large applications with ease using ASP .NET MVC. Recipes to enhance the look, feel, and user experience of your web applications. Expand your MVC toolbox with an introduction to lots of open source tools. Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible.
PHP Team Development
Overview of PHP Team Development – Work more effectively as a team by breaking up complex PHP projects into manageable sub-parts. Develop code that is much easier to maintain with source control, agile principles, and project tracking. Apply techniques related to process models, collaboration among team members, and continuous long-term improvement. A precise guide with examples to illustrate practical benefits.
WordPress for Business Bloggers
Overview of WordPress for Business Bloggers – Gain a competitive advantage with a well polished WordPress business blog. Develop and transform your blog with strategic goals. Create your own custom design using the Sandbox theme. Apply SEO (search engine optimization) to your blog. Market and measure the success of your blog. Integrate analytics and paid advertising into your WordPress blog. Fully tested and compatible with WordPress 2.6.
MODx Web Development – Second Edition
Overview of MODx Web Development – Second Edition – Build a complete, feature-rich website using MODx. Covers detailed theory from the basics to practical implementation. Learn the most common web requirements and solutions, and build a site in the process. Simple, step-by-step instructions detailing how to install, configure, and customize MODx.
PHP 5 Social Networking
Overview of PHP 5 Social Networking – Build a flexible Social Networking framework using PHP which can be extended to fit the needs of any Social Networking site. Develop a suitable structure for our framework, with MVC to structure the architecture and a Registry to store core Objects. Allow users to connect and communicate with each other using communication with friends list, flexible user profiles, messages, discussions, and much more. Plan marketing and scaling strategies, to entice more users and ensure the site can cope with the demand. Packed with real-world code and clear explanation, this book uses an ongoing case study for creating a Social Networking framework.
CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook
Overview of CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook – Create elegant and scalable web applications using CakePHP. Leverage your find operations with virtual fields, ad-hoc queries, and custom find types. Add full internationalization support to your application, including translation of database records. Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible.
WordPress 3.0 jQuery
Overview of WordPress 3.0 jQuery – Enhance the usability and increase visual interest in your WordPress 3.0 site with easy-to-implement jQuery techniques. Create advanced animations, use the UI plugin to your advantage within WordPress, and create custom jQuery plugins for your site. Turn your jQuery plugins into WordPress plugins and share with the world. Implement all of the above jQuery enhancements without ever having to make a WordPress content editor switch over into HTML view.
Drupal 7 Module Development
Overview of Drupal 7 Module Development – Specifically written for Drupal 7 development. Write your own Drupal modules, themes, and libraries. Discover the powerful new tools introduced in Drupal 7. Learn the programming secrets of six experienced Drupal developers. Get practical with this book’s project-based format.
Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook
Overview of Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook – Easily develop feature-rich internet applications to interact with the user using various built-in components of YUI library. Simple and powerful recipes explaining how to use and implement YUI 2 .x components. Gain a thorough understanding of the YUI tools. Plenty of example code to help you improve your coding and productivity with the YUI Library. Hands-on solutions that takes a practical approach to recipes.
Magento 1.4 Themes Design
Overview of Magento 1.4 Themes Design – Install and configure Magento 1.4 and learn the fundamental principles behind Magento themes. Customize the appearance of your Magento 1.4 e-commerce store with Magento’s powerful theming engine by changing Magento templates, skin files and layout files. Change the basics of your Magento theme from the logo of your store to the color scheme of your theme. Integrate popular social media aspects such as Twitter and Facebook into your Magento store.
Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook
Overview of Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook – Develop Modules and Extensions for Magento 1.4 using PHP with ease. Socialize your store by writing custom modules and widgets to drive in more customers. Achieve a tremendous performance boost by applying powerful techniques such as YSlow, PageSpeed, and Siege. Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible.
Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5
Overview of Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 – General OOP concepts explained. Implement Design Patterns in your applications and solve common OOP Problems. Take full advantage of native built-in objects. Test your code by writing unit tests with PHP Unit.
Flash Game Development by Example
Overview of Flash Game Development by Example – Build 10 classic games in Flash. Learn the essential skills for Flash game development. Start developing games straight away. Build your first game in the first chapter. Fun and fast paced. Ideal for readers with no Flash or game programming experience topic. The most popular games in the world are built in Flash.
ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook
Overview of ASP .NET jQuery Cookbook – Tips and tricks for interfacing the jQuery library with ASP .NET controls. Boost ASP .NET applications with the power of jQuery. Use a problem-solution based approach with hands-on examples for ASP .NET developers. Step-by-step guide with plenty of code snippets and screen images. Simple, effective, and easy-to-follow recipes.
WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials
Overview of WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials – Everything you need to know to develop your own plugins for WordPress. Walk through the development of five plugins from ground up. Prepare and release your plugins to the WordPress community. Avoid common mistakes made by most plugin developers by learning more advanced development patterns.
Python 3 Web Development Beginner’s Guide
Overview of Python 3 Web Development Beginner’s Guide – Build your own Python web applications from scratch. Follow the examples to create a number of different Python-based web applications, including a task list, book database, and wiki application. Have the freedom to make your site your own without having to learn another framework. Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide Series: practical examples will make it easier for you to get going quickly.
Python Testing Cookbook
Overview of Python Testing Cookbook – Learn to write tests at every level using a variety of Python testing tools. The first book to include detailed screenshots and recipes for using Jenkins continuous integration server (formerly known as Hudson). Explore innovative ways to introduce automated testing to legacy systems. Written by Greg L. Turnquist – senior software engineer and author of Spring Python 1.1. Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible.
WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization
Overview of WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization – Discover everything you need to get your WordPress site to the top of the search engines. Learn everything from keyword research and link building to customer conversions in this complete guide. Packed with real-word examples to help get your site get noticed by the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Bing. This easy-to-read guide takes you step-by-step through the process of building a search engine-friendly WordPress site.
WordPress 3 Ultimate Security
Overview of WordPress 3 Ultimate Security – Know the risks, think like a hacker, use their toolkit, find problems first – and kick attacks into touch. Lock down your entire network from the local PC and web connection to the server and WordPress itself. Find out how to back up and secure your content and, when it’s scraped, know what to do to enforce your copyright. Understand disaster recovery and use the best-of-breed tools, code, modules, techniques, and plugins to insure against attacks. Learn fast with this easy-read, jargon-light book jam-packed with copy-paste solutions to suit all levels.
Drupal 7 Themes
Overview of Drupal 7 Themes – Learn to create new Drupal 7 themes. No experience of Drupal theming required. Discover techniques and tools for creating and modifying themes. The first book to guide you through the new elements and themes available in Drupal 7.
HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook
Overview of HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook – Use HTML5 to enhance JavaScript functionality. Display videos dynamically and create movable ads using JQuery. Set up the canvas environment, process shapes dynamically and create interactive visualizations. Enhance accessibility by testing browser support, providing alternative site views and displaying alternate content for non supported browsers.
Getting Good with JavaScript
Includes source files plus over 6 hours of screencasts! JavaScript has become one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. This book will get acquainted with what JavaScript; what it is, where it came from, and most importantly – how to code it!
Building Websites with Blogger (eBook & Templates)
Building Websites with Blogger is the ultimate guide to creating a beautiful, usable website with Blogger, and includes 3 bonus Blogger templates!
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