Professional Joomla! (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field–development and deployment–with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides. Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You’ll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you’ll explore interfacing with outside content, Li (more…)
Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development: The Professional Guide to Programming Joomla! (Paperback)
The Professional Guide to Programming Joomla! In-depth guide to programming Joomla!Design and build secure and robust components, modules and pluginsIncludes a comprehensive reference to the major areas of the Joomla! frameworkIn Detail Joomla! is the world’s hottest open-source content management system, and the winner of the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in its application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla! package or in a freely available extension. Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited (more…)
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I’m on Facebook–Now What???: How to Get Personal, Business, and Professional Value from Facebook (Paperback)
Facebook is one of the hottest websites in today’s world, and is having a major impact on career and business. This book explains the different parts of Facebook and helps you understand how you can get the most out of your Facebook account. It helps you understand what you could or should do in Facebook to further your career, business, or job. This book will help you come up with your own action strategy to get value out of Facebook. It will help you understand the possibilities with Facebook to figure out you can do to optimize the use of this tool. The intended audience includes professionals interested in their careers, marketers, business owners, and anyone involved in promoting a cause (personal or business) through new, hot technologies. Contains a foreword by Lee Lorenzen and an afterword by Robert Scoble
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Jason Alba is the career management evangelist. After getting laid off in January 2006, having great credent (more…)
All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter (Paperback)
Make Twitter work for you–right now! Twitter! Everyone’s talking about it. Its membership grew over 700% in just one year! Now, learn how to make the most of Twitter–in your personal life, your business, everywhere! All a Twitter delivers quick, smart answers to the questions everyone’s asking about Twitter: What’s it about? What’s it good for? Is it worth your time? How do you get started? Where can you find great Twitter feeds to follow? How can you build a worldwide audience for your own Tweets? You name it, Tee Morris answers it–and shows you exactly how to do it, step-by-step, in plain English. No experience? Looking for something new to do with your Tweets? No problem: this is the Twitter book for everyone! Covers all this, and more… • Setting up your Twitter account and getting started in minutes • Creating great Tweets: making the most of the 140 characters Twitter gives you • Using Twitter to make connections, exchange g (more…)
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WordPress Theme Design: A complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes (Paperback)
In Detail 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 (more…)
Beginning Joomla!, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional) (Paperback)
Joomla!, exclamation point and all, is one of the most searched–for and hired–for open source content management systems in the world. Since 2007, the combination of Joomla! and Dan Rahmel’s bestselling Beginning Joomla!, From Novice to Professional have made it so that all you have to do is read a single book to learn how to build sites that take community–authored content and turn it instantly into published web pages with all the latest features like rich templating, community member profile management, forums, photo management, and article commenting. Now revised and updated for the new Joomla! 1.6, this second edition “job–in–a–book” provides the solid core of know–how that you’ll need to get the most out of your Joomla! deployment, written to fully exploit the features of latest version of Joomla!. More than just a simple “build a toy web site” guide, Beginning Joomla!, Second Edition will give you a wealth of life–saving tips, tr (more…)
Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO (Paperback)
Maybe you’re a great programmer or IT professional, but marketing isn’t your thing. Or perhaps you’re a tech-savvy search engine marketer who wants a peek under the hood of a search engine optimized web site. Search engine marketing is a field where technology and marketing are both critical and interdependent, because small changes in the implementation of a web site can make you or break you in search engine rankings. Furthermore, the fusion of technology and marketing k (more…)
PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, Third Edition (Certification Press) (Paperback)
The best fully integrated study system available for the PMP examUpdated for the latest release of the Project Professional exam from PMI, PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, Third Edition covers what you need to know–and shows you how to prepare–for this challenging exam. 100% complete coverage of all objectives for the PMP exam Exam Readiness checklist–you’re ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked offInside the Exam sections highlight ke (more…)
PMP in Depth, Second Edition: Project Management Professional Study Guide for the PMP Exam (Paperback)
The primary purpose of this book is to help you pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam administered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Because the book has a laser-sharp focus on the exam objectives, expert project managers who want to pass the PMP exam can use this book to ensure that they do not miss any objective. Yet this is not simply an exam-cram book. The chapters and the sections within each chapter are presented in a logical learning sequence: A top (more…)
PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide, Includes Audio CD (Paperback)
The much-anticipated update to the highly acclaimed PMP study guide! The Project Management Profressional (PMP) certification is the most desired skill in today’s IT marketplace and candidates are required to have thousands of hours of PM experience even before taking the PMP exam. This fifth edition is completely updated for the newest exam and is the most comprehensive review guide on the shelf. You’ll benefit from the detailed discussions on a wide range of PMP (more…)











