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Wordpress Theme Design (May 2008)

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Wordpress Theme Design

Expert guidance on designing a great theme for one of the most popular, open-source blog systems available for the Web today!

This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.

Whether you’re working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site’s design and branding.

What you will learn from this book

Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design

Create detailed designs and code them up

Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics

Debug and validate your theme using W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation tools

Customize and tweak your theme’s layout

Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms

Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme

Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox

Add interactivity to your themes using Flash

Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0’s template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functionsApproach
Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it’s quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it.

The second is “Unique and Beautiful”. Occasionally, the site’s theme needs to be created from scratch so that everything displayed caters to the specific kind of content the site offers. This book is going to take you through the Unique and Beautiful route with the idea that once you know how to create a theme from scratch, you’ll be more apt at understanding what to look for in other WordPress themes.

Who this book is written for
This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers (with no server-side scripting or programming experience) who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors.

Regardless of your web development skill-set or level, you’ll be walked through the clear, step-by-step instructions, but familiarity with a broad range of web development skills and WordPress know-how will allow you to gain maximum benefit from this book.

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Creating Web Sites Bible, 3rd Edition (27 Jun 2008)

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Creating Web Sites Bible, 3rd Edition

Everything you need to build a great Web site …

Whether you want to start an online store, establish a Web presence for a brick-and-mortar business, or just

show off your family album, this book shows you how. Even if you’re fairly new to the Web world, you’ll soon learn both the aesthetic and technical aspects of Web design. From basic HTML to the secrets of JavaScript programmers and Flash wizards, this comprehensive, updated guidebook helps you use the latest tools, techniques, and standards to build great sites that get noticed.

Inside, you’ll find everything you need to know to create a Web site

Learn basic HTML, plan your site, organize your pages coherently, and get them on the Web

Use text, color, and images effectively

Discover the latest advances in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and how to control page layout with layers

Enhance your pages with interactive features using Flash, forms, animation, sound, and video

Use JavaScript for both animation and site navigation

Set up an e-commerce site, find out how to accept credit card payment, and get acquainted with affiliate programs

Find out how to maintain your site, keeping it fresh, interesting, and up-to-date

Design with XML and give your site mobility with WAP/WML

Jam-packed with more than 800 pages of expert advice and hands-on guidance, this book has everything readers need to build their own cutting-edge Web sites

A one-stop resource that delivers the scoop on everything from HTML, tables, and forms to JavaScript and Flash

Brand-new chapters cover getting attention with Google AdWords, building Yahoo! and Amazon.com stores, creating great eBay auctions, and getting paid with PayPal

Includes new information on designing with cascading style sheets, syndicating a site with RSS, building a blog, and moreDownload

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Developing with Google App Engine 2009

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Developing with Google App Engine 2009
Author: Eugene Ciurana
Publisher: Apress
Date: 2009-02-02
ISBN: 1430218312
164 pages | PDF

Developing with Google App Engine introduces development with Google App Engine, a platform that provides developers and users with infrastructure Google itself uses to develop and deploy massively scalable applications.

Introduction to concepts

Development with App Engine

Deployment into App EngineWhat you’ll learn:

Create processes that are ideal for cloud platforms.

Design data for the cloud.

Learn what types of applications are ideal for the cloud.

Deploy web applications into the cloud.

Measure the success and health of the cloud.Who is this book for?

Python developers, developers interested in massive scaling, and developers interested in Google or cloud computing

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Google Sites and Chrome for Dummies 2009

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Google Sites and Chrome for Dummies 2009

Curious about Google Sites and how team collaboration Web sites can help you share documents online from various locations? Curious about Google’s new Chrome browser? Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies has what you want to know!

Today, Google is so much more than another word for “search.” Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies shows you how to create great collaborative Web sites with Google Sites and surf the Web with the super-fast Google Chrome browser. Find out how they work with other Google Apps, too. You’ll learn to:

Take advantage of free hosting, free tools, and a simple, straightforward interface with Google Sites

Set up a Google account or Google Apps account

Create wiki sites that let coworkers collaborate on projects or keep family members up to date

Use Google gadgets to keep track of projects, manage calendars and documents, or display photos

Integrate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other Google Apps into your site

Work with Contact List, Google Talk, and Google Chat, and handle e-mail with Gmail

Download and install the speedy Google Chrome browser

Install browser plug-ins, enable offline access to Google Docs, and manage misbehaving tabsYou’ll even find instructions and examples to help you plan sites for personal and business use, plus a sample college course site. With advice from Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies, you can make collaboration easy and have the high-speed Web at your fingertips.

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Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition 2008

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As the preferred technology for Web design, cascading style sheets (CSS) enable
Web designers and developers to define consistent styles on multiple pages.
Written by leading CSS authors who are also professional programmers and
designers, this is the first book to showcase examples of high-profile, real-
world Web sites created by world-famous designers using CSS.

Each chapter offers an exploratory look at each designer’s process from start to
finish and how he overcame each site’s unique set of challenges. You’ll learn
what each designer would have done differently as well as various CSS tips and
techniques that were used for each site. This is a resource to which you can
turn regularly for more know-how and insights into designing large-scale,
professional-level Web sites with CSS.

What you will learn from this book

The preliminaries you need to iron out before you begin a site in order to
avoid problems later

How to tackle browser-compatibility issues

Best practices for using XHTML with CSS

How to successfully integrate Flash content into an XHTML and CSS site

Using drop shadows, drop-down menus, bounding boxes, and rollovers

Ways to develop a site that can reliably handle constant streams of up-to-date
information

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Always Be Testing - The Complete Guide To Google™ Website Optimizer

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Always Be Testing - The Complete Guide To Google™ Website Optimizer

Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-29063-7

Stop guessing, start testing, and enjoy greater success with your website.
If you’re looking for more leads, sales, and profit from your website, then look no further than this expert guide to Google’s free A/B and multivariate website testing tool, Google Website Optimizer. Recognized online marketing guru and New York Times bestselling author, Bryan Eisenberg, and his chief scientist, John Quarto-vonTivadar, show you how to test and tune your site to get more visitors to contact you, buy from you, subscribe to your services, or take profitable actions on your site. This practical and easy-to-follow reference will help you:

Develop a testing framework to meet your goals and objectives

Improve your website and move more of your customers to action

Select and categorize your products and services with a customer-centric view

Optimize your landing pages and create copy that sells

Choose the best test for a given application

Reap the fullest benefits from your testing experience

Increase conversions with over 250 testing ideas

Save $25 on Google AdWords with coupon included in the book
Take the guesswork out of your online marketing efforts. Let Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer show you why you should test, how to test, and what to test on your site, and ultimately, help you discover what is best for your site and your bottom line.

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Geek House: 10 Hardware Hacking Projects for Around Home

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From the garage to the living room, Geek House provides hackers with 10 PC-based hardware hacking projects that are not for the faint of heart!

Taking the DIY mentality to a whole new level, this book teaches techies how to hack, customize, and modify everything-from their sprinkler systems to the temperature of their barbecues

Adventurous readers will feast on such projects as installing a bar code inventory system for DVDs or CDs, converting RS232 to wireless, scheduling recording from any television in the house, and creating a remote control finder

Companion Web site includes the custom software and source code needed to power these geeky creations Download

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Hacking the PSP Cool Hacks, Mods & Customizations

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Hacking the PSP

Get ready to make the most of Sony’s awesome entertainment device, and hacker’s dream - the PSP. Hacking the PSP covers everything you need to know to:

Transfer video and DVDs to your PSP
Transfer audio books and text
Hack the games you play every day (including using the PSP as an XBox game save device)
Move your TiVo and Replay TV shows to your PSP
Convert your DVDs to run on your PSP
Create your own quick-charge battery packs
Learn how to program the PSP
Repair your PSP
Create your own hacks and run homebrew software
Find all the online and offline resources you need

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Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong

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Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong

Authors: Rachel Andrew, Kevin Yank
Format: PDF
Size: 17 mb
Year: 2008

Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as you know it today. You’ll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds a distant memory.In this book, you’ll learn how to start taking full advantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSS techniques — whilst still catering for those nasty old browsers. You’ll unearth what’s put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin, and gain an understanding from two experts why CSS has a very bright future.

Some of the valuable insights in this book include:

how you can take full advantage of IE8

how to take CSS tables to the limit and beyond

letting you say goodbye to old hacks and workarounds FOREVER!

help you rediscover what you first loved about CSS

ensure make the most of what CSS has to offer

understand the road ahead for CSS

CSS was conceived in an age when web site design was simple; its creators never anticipated the level of intricacy required in the designs that it would be asked to deliver today. Clever designers figured out ways to make CSS do what they needed, but using techniques so convoluted that it became unpredictable and difficult to master. CSS just became too hard …

The good news is, that’s all about to change, and this book will show you how!

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