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Wow! eBook: Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 - 6 new eBooks

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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

Posted: 26 May 2012 05:53 AM PDT

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

Book Description

Tablets, smart phones and even televisions are being used increasingly to view the . There's never been a greater range of screen sizes and associated user experiences to consider. pages built to be responsive provide the best possible version of their content to match the viewing devices  of not just today's devices but tomorrow's too.

Learn how to design websites according to the new "responsive design" methodology, allowing a to display beautifully on every screen size. Follow along, building and enhancing a responsive design with and . The book provides a practical understanding of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of front-end web development.

Starting with a static Photoshop composite, create a with and which is flexible depending on the viewer's screen size.

With 5, pages are leaner and more semantic. A fluid grid design and 3 queries means designs can and adapt for any screen size. Beautiful backgrounds, box-shadows and animations will be added – all using the power, simplicity and flexibility of 3.

Responsive with 5 and CSS3 provides the necessary knowledge to ensure your projects won't just be built 'right' for today but also the future.

What you will learn from this book

  • Responsive is the hottest topic in . Understand what it is and why it's essential to master
  • HTML5 is leaner, faster and more semantically rich. You'll learn how to write HTML5 and understand all the key features
  • CSS3 queries allow different styles for different , learn how to integrate them into a design
  • Make web pages and the media within them 'fluid' – allowing them to when needed
  • Ditch images and use CSS3 to create background gradients, text shadows, box shadows and more
  • Use CSS3 transformations to flip elements in space. Animate elements with CSS3 keyframes
  • Create smooth CSS3 transitions between default and hover states with differing durations and timing functions
  • Conquer forms – add validation and useful interface elements like date pickers and range sliders with HTML5 alone

Approach
This book will lead you, step by step and with illustrative screenshots, through a real example

Who this book is for
Are you writing two websites – one for and one for larger displays? Or perhaps you've heard of Responsive Design but are unsure how to bring HTML5, CSS3, or responsive design all together. If so, this book provides everything you need to take your web pages to the next level – before all your competitors do!

Book Details

  • Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849693188
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849693189
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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

Posted: 26 May 2012 01:52 AM PDT

Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

Book Description

is one of the most powerful and popular Content Systems at the moment. By making your site multilingual, you are opening the door to a whole new user base, in as many countries as you like. Use the localization and internationalization features of 7 to automatically detect where your site users are visiting from and select the content appropriate to them. The world is your oyster!

7 Multilingual Sites guides you through the wild world of localization and internationalization with practical and real-world exercises that you can apply to your own . You will go from theory to practice and acquire the skills you need to make a user-friendly 7 site that supports multiple languages.

You will follow focused chapter exercises to add multiple-language support for your user interface, content, and various parts of your site's configuration such as system variables, menus, and blocks.

The latter half of the book fills in the details with step-by-step exercises for localizing the interface, the content, and the configuration. Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites will give you the knowledge and the skills necessary to configure your site to support your language needs.

What you will learn from this book

  • Understand the Drupal 7 localization structure and process
  • Enable your Drupal to display in different languages
  • Localize users based on language and country
  • Employ effective () techniques for your multilingual site
  • Update blocks, menus, views, and panels to work with multiple languages
  • Set up language detection based on URLs, sessions, cookies, or domains
  • Create translatable content types to support multilingual content

Approach
A practical book with plenty of screenshots to guide you through the many features of multilingual Drupal.

Who this book is for
Any Drupal users who know the basics of building a Drupal site and are familiar with the Drupal , will benefit from this book. No previous knowledge of localization or internationalization is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 140 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849518181
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849518185
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Drush User’s Guide

Posted: 26 May 2012 01:48 AM PDT

Drush Users Guide

Book Description

is a line interface for . Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a are repetitive and involve filling in forms on pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single , shortening the and maintenance time of a project drastically.

Drush User's Guide will allow you to be more productive and efficient in building and maintaining your sites through the command line. You will learn to install Drush on different platforms, and manage and configure your site by learning how to use and create Drush commands.

Become a Drush expert by exploring its command toolkit; customizing it to suit your needs, and extending it with contributed modules.

The command line will allow you to download, enable and upgrade Drupal projects in seconds. Back up your files, code and data in one single file, clear the cache, interact with databases, and deploy sites to remote machines – all using simply the command line. Use Drush with your own commands or alter existing ones; and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.

Drush User's guide has everything you need to extend your use of the command line to easily build and manage your Drupal sites.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn how to install Drush on different systems, and download and install a full Drupal site in seconds.
  • Understand Drush's command structure with options and arguments.
  • Discover how to set a site to maintenance mode and other common settings with just one command.
  • Back up and restore code, files and databases into one file.
  • Learn to write your own Drush commands and name sites by aliases for even shorter commands.
  • Manage modules and users, messages and run automated tests.

Approach
A practical guide full of examples and step-by-step instructions to start using Drush right from chapter 1.

Who this book is for
Drupal developers or themers who understand Drupal 's basic concepts. Drush can make building any kind of quicker and easier, no matter if it is a environment, beta, a simple blog or a complex system.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517983
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517980
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jQuery for Designers: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 26 May 2012 01:43 AM PDT

jQuery for Designers: Beginners Guide

Book Description

is awesome for designers – it builds easily on the and you already know and allows you to create impressive effects with just a few lines of code. However, without a background in , – on which is built – can feel intimidating and impossible to grasp. This book will show you how simple it can be to learn the basics and then extend your capabilities by taking advantage of .

jQuery for Designers offers approachable lessons for designers with little or no background in . The book begins by introducing the jQuery library and a small and simple introduction to . Then you’ll step through a few simple tasks to get your feet wet before diving into using to quickly and simply add complex effects with just a few lines of code.

You’ll be surprised at how far you can get with JavaScript when you start with the power of the jQuery library and this book will show you how. We’ll cover common interface widgets and effects such as tabbed interfaces, custom tooltips, and custom scrollbars. You’ll learn how to create an animated navigation menu and how to add simple effects to enhance your site visitors’ experience. Then we’ll wrap up with interactive data grids which make sorting and searching data easy.

What you will learn from this book

  • Download and include the jQuery library on your
  • Build browsable photo galleries and animated slideshows, along with carousels and sliders
  • Create tabbed interfaces in a few lines of code without a plugin
  • Include custom scrollbars that fit the design of your site but are still easy for your site visitors to use
  • Use to only load up the changing content area rather than the whole page
  • Enhance the navigation on your site by using animations and custom tooltips
  • Enhance forms to make them easier for your site visitor to use

Approach
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter focuses on a specific part of your and how to improve its design with the use of jQuery. There are plenty of screenshots and practical step-by-step instructions making it easy to apply jQuery to your site.

Who this book is for
This book is for designers who have the basics of and , but want to extend their knowledge by learning to use JavaScript and jQuery.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 332 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849516707
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849516709
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Social Media for WordPress

Posted: 26 May 2012 01:41 AM PDT

Social Media for WordPress

Book Description

Social Media can help elect a U.S. President, transform the way we educate ourselves and drum up support for disaster relief. What lies beneath the two ominous buzzwords is not some secret -changing technology but rather a new approach at forming relationships with your audience in . Discover the power of online influence many already rely on.

Social Media for WordPress: A Quicker Way to Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site is a practical how-to guide on implementing social media marketing techniques to improve user retention and initiate engaging conversations. You'll learn how to leverage third-party services like , ! Pipes and as well as popular WordPress extensions like FeedWordPress, and .

This book introduces you to the powerful combination of WordPress and social media through a variety of and free third-party services.

You'll learn how to create your own social network, utilize forums and rewards to stimulate interest. You'll also learn how to automate many marketing activities, so you can spend more time connecting with your audience.

Comprised of easy-to-follow tutorials and supplemental , you'll understand how to implement social media strategies.

What you will learn from this book

  • Discover the fundamentals, misconceptions and basic implementations of social media as well as WordPress features to drive more site engagement
  • Roll out your social media layer with and add -like capabilities to help you engage your site members
  • Create group forums using and BuddyPress, while automatically publishing WordPress posts to using feeds
  • Incorporate memberships and make category-specific content restrictions applicable only to non-members
  • Implement to tracking your social media efforts and learn how to automatically email analytical reports
  • Easily maintain your site by automatically backing up your site and publishing posts via email
  • Automatically post tweets, so you can spend more time on genuine dialogues and less time on producing relevant tweets
  • Produce QR codes for your print collateral so you can improve the accessibility of the relationships you've built online

Approach
Fast paced, quick to read, impossible to put down, this book is a complete plan for social engagement on the .

Who this book is for
You've heard plenty of social media success stories. You know your WordPress site inside and out, but you want help. Stop right now and pick up a copy of this book.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 166 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847199801
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847199805
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Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook

Posted: 26 May 2012 01:37 AM PDT

Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook

Book Description

Implementing as a cross-cutting concern has several challenges. Consequently, modern software development practices and Service Oriented Architectures are alluding to the idea of claims-based Identity for access control. 's Identity and Access Control paradigm leverages industry standard open specifications and provides tools, runtime and platform support for facilitating the development of claims-enabled applications.

Identity Foundation Cookbook explores scenarios on building claims-enabled applications using Microsoft Identity Foundation (), Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS 2.0) and Azure Access Control Services (ACS).

This book covers all aspects of several challenges that professional developers face while enabling support for claims-based identity across interoperable platforms and building claims-enabled applications. The book then goes on to explore AD FS 2.0 and provides step-by-step details on how claims support is enabled in Microsoft's server technologies.

The book starts by introducing you to the world of claims-based identity in Framework 4.0. It then moves on to showcase the capabilities of the runtime and the associated SDK including the steps to perform identity delegation in ASP.NET 3 applications, create WCF token services, extend the runtime to provide support for SAML 2.0 specifications and use as a trusted source for implementing access control. Further, the book explores AD FS 2.0 and features recipes showcasing steps to configure claims in Microsoft's server technologies. It also features a chapter on some of the newer capabilities of the runtime including providing support for claims in Windows Workflow Foundation and applications.

Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook provides a mix of recipes from basic to advanced to enable professional developers to implement claims-based identity in enterprise-wide scalable and interoperable applications.

What you will learn from this book

  • Master the different ways to extend the available runtime for a customized claims-based Single Sign-On implementation across interoperable platforms.
  • Understand Microsoft's offering on claims-based identity.
  • Get to grips with enabling claims-based access control in your ASP.NET 3 applications.
  • Extend the runtime to support OASIS SAML 2.0 profiles for security token exchange in Passive Federation scenarios.
  • Leverage cloud based access control services in your application.
  • Enable claims support in Windows Communication Foundation and provide your implementation of security token services.

Approach
This book is written in a simple, easy to understand format, with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations.

Who this book is for
If you are a .NET developer looking forward to building access control in your applications using claims-based identity, then this is the best guide for you. This book is also an excellent choice for professionals and IT administrators trying to enable Single Sign-On across applications within the enterprise, and in the cloud spanning interoperable platforms.

No previous knowledge on the subject is necessary, however a strong foundation in the C# programming language and .NET Framework 4.0 is expected. A good understanding of authentication and authorization concepts (Windows and Forms based) in .NET would also help.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 294 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849686203
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849686204
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