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AJAX

Bulletproof Ajax

Ajax, or the technology that lets you create Web pages in which information can be updated without refreshing the entire page, is the latest rage in Web site design. But for those who aren't hard-core programmers, enhancing pages using Ajax can be a challenge. Even more of a challenge is making sure those pages work for all users.

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Flash

From After Effects to Flash

From the Friends of Ed site

As a Flash 8 designer, you have discovered the power of the video tools in the application. The new filters and effects and ActionScript classes allow you to create a variety of stunning visual effects in Flash. What you probably haven’t discovered is how easy it is empower your video hundreds of times more by combining the many effects and tools in After Effects 7 Professional with Flash!

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HTML

HTML Mastery

Why settle for average HTML, when you can become a master of it? Markup is the fabric that holds the web together, but most people only scratch the surface of what can be achieved using (X)HTML.

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Advanced

Pro JavaScript Techniques

Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesn't waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures.

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CSS

Pro CSS Techniques

Apress wrote this book to provide you with a collection of proven, modern techniques that you can refer to every day to get the most out of the time you put into your web development projects, from start to finish. You know the basics of CSS, and you don't need a guide to evangelize the merits of web standards-based development - you already know it all. Instead, we wanted to focus on context, and how each of the techniques we present fit into the lifecycle of a real-world professional project.

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Open Source

Moodle E-Learning Course Development

From the Back Cover

This unique book gives you more than just a guide to the Moodle software; it uses Moodle as a route to better teaching, more motivated students, and more successful courses.

What you will learn from this book

Once you read this book, you will:
  • Understand what Moodle can do, how it compares to other e-learning packages, and how it can support your teaching strategies
  • Install the Moodle software on your own computer or a server, and understand your way around it
  • Know how to create different kinds of courses. Moodle can support courses where the group works through the classes with a shared schedule, or where individual students work through at their own pace, or courses where students are free to explore the different topics in their own time. This book will show you how.
  • Understand all of Moodle's learning features. Moodle provides features for managing course content, interactive resources, and social activities such as forums and wikis. This book explains what each of these features are, how they work, and most importantly how and when to use them effectively.
  • Manage students – so that you can ensure that the right students are going to the right classes; allow students to enroll themselves, or invite students to join a course. You can even set up commercial courses where students pay to sign
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CMS

Drupal

From the Back Cover

Drupal is an exceptional Content Management System (CMS). From the ground up, it is well designed ad has an active development process that ensures a slick user experience and great performance. It is also a model Open Source project that boasts a mature and friendly community.

With the explosion in the number of blogs and forums on the Internet today, Drupal is poised to become one of the world's most useful and widespread applications. By combining a flexible and powerful CMS with an easy-to-use administration too, Drupal enables everyone, regardless of their background, to create exquisite websites.

To get the most from this potent and dynamic software, you need well considered, practical advice presented in a clear and logical manner. This book contains precisely that, and is the perfect companion for anyone who needs to make use of Drupal.

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Open Source

Building Websites With Joomla

From the Backcover

This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Joomla!. If you’ve never used Joomla!, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Joomla! based web site fast. You don’t have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions. This book and the freely available Joomla! are all you need.

 
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Flash

Advanced ActionScript Components

From The Friends Of Ed Site

Macromedia's architecture is like a chest filled with precious jewels, and this book is quite simply the key to open it! One of the most important tools provided with Flash is the Macromedia Component Architecture: a framework of components written in ActionScript 2, based on established design patterns, that provides a wealth of functionality you can just bolt on to your Flash applications when desired. This can save you an enormous amount of time during application development and help you improve the quality of your code. What’s more, the source code is included, so if you can’t find the component you need within the component architecture, you can just modify existing components to create your own!

Expert Flash developer and author Antonio De Donatis gives you everything you need to master Flash components. In the first part, he shows you how the architecture works, how to create effective component-based applications, and how to create your own custom components from what’s already provided. The second part shows how XML can be used to effectively describe and dynamically create not only single component instances, but whole applications based on any number of components.

The last part of the book is a comprehensive reference to using all of the components already available in the Macromedia Component Architecture. It includes a specific chapter dedicated to each of the UI components like basic usage, component management, customization, and practical examples showing usage of each component.

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PHP

ImageMagick Tricks

From the Backcover

This fast-paced and practival tutorial is packed with examples of photo manipulations, logo creation, animations, and complete web projects. With this book up your sleeve, you'll be creating spellbinding images from code in no time.

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