August 18 2010

SilverStripe: The Complete Guide to CMS Development

Product Description
This is the Official Guide on the award-winning SilverStripe programming framework, authored by the creators of the open source CMS.

 SilverStripe is a robust and flexible website content management system (CMS) tightly integrated with an application framework.  It is open source and embraces modern system architecture and agile development methodologies. Intermediate developers can implement powerful websites and web-applications quickly and customize them to their individual needs. The award-winning PHP5/MySQL-based system saves not only time and nerves for techies, but also features a straightforward interface which is a joy to use for non-technical content-authors.

 This Guide helps you to:

  • Get started with SilverStripe: Learn the architecture and usability principles that underpin SilverStripe’s modern approach. Then go through the technical requirements, the installation process, and useful tools for your daily work. 
  • Learn the CMS: Practical examples show you how to use the CMS as a content author, and how to manage content, images, documents, and forms without technical knowledge. Administrators learn how to set up permissions and security groups.
  • Develop a custom application: Use MVC and other modern design patterns to create well-structured, object-oriented PHP code and concise template markup. Let the authors walk you through creating an interactive recruitment website as practical example project.
  • Extend through clean code and modules: Understand how SilverStripe is built on modularity and how this empowers you to build plugins and core extensions in an elegant, maintainable fashion.
  • Use SilverStripe professionally: In-depth topics on internationalization, security, unit testing, caching, multi-page forms, and web services APIs ensure that you can build world-class websites.

SilverStripe: The Complete Guide to CMS Development

August 15 2010

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner’s Guide

Product Description
Create a fully functional and professional website using CMS Made Simple

  • Learn everything there is to know about setting up a professional website in CMS Made Simple
  • Implement your own design into CMS Made Simple with the help of the easy-to-use template engine
  • Create photo galleries with LightBox and implement many other JQuery effects like interactive navigation in your website
  • Build an eStore and grasp the intricacies of setting up an integrated PayPal checkout
  • Develop high-quality websites with an illuminating case study approach and many screenshots

In Detail
CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.

This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.

This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.

A tutorial for beginners intended to equip them to build a fully functional website with a professional touch and advanced features

What you will learn from this book

  • Develop powerful, engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations
  • Implement your own design or any HTML /CSS template into CMS Made Simple with step-by-step instructions
  • Integrate an e-commerce shop with PayPal checkout
  • Easily implement YouTube videos into templates or pages
  • Create custom forms of any complexity with individual fields using a builder
  • Integrate a photo gallery or newsletter feature with ready-to-use modules
  • Build print-friendly PDF versions of your sites on the fly
  • Develop protected pages available only for members and manage visitor logins with a sign-in form
  • Build your own functionality with module maker

Approach
This is a practical, hands-on book based around a case study website, which you will build in this easy-to-understand workshop by using CMS Made Simple. The case study grows chapter by chapter, from CMS installation to the finished website. It provides clear instructions and detailed screenshots, so you can see exactly what to do at each step of the build.

When you have completed the case study, you will have the knowledge and confidence to build a website with rich functionality and individual design that is optimized for search engines and can be handed over to the customer.

Who this book is written for
This book is perfect for newcomers as well as webmasters who are looking for an introduction to building powerful and professional websites with a content management system. Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is the only requirement. The workshop covers all aspects of web publishing and is aimed for web designers, web developers, editors, and web managers.

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner’s Guide

July 28 2010

Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach

Product Description
A book about developing, managing, maintaining and deploying Web content solutions across the enterprise. Addresses the common questions that all small, medium and large enterprises encounter as they grow. Softcover.

Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach

July 26 2010

Content Speed Writing – How To Write Killer, High Quality Web Content At Warp Speeds! AAA+++

Product Description
The Ebook will teach you how to write killer, high quality web content at warp speeds.

This guide focuses on the writing specifically of articles to submit to directories and generate traffic.

Step by step you will learn:

How to use articles to promote your website.
Researching your articles.
How to write your article fast.
How to stimulate ideas.
Getting your articles read.
Converting readers to site visitors.

And much more!

Content Speed Writing – How To Write Killer, High Quality Web Content At Warp Speeds! AAA+++

July 24 2010

Accepted

Product Description
Universal Pictures Accepted – HD-DVD/DVD ComboFrom the producer of Bruce Almighty and Liar Liar comes a whole new school of thought: Accepted. When every college turns him down, Bartleby “B” Gaines decides to make one up. Welcome to the South Harmon Institute of Technology, where the students teach the classes, the dean lives in a trailer in the back, and Bartleby’s on the way to scoring with the girl of his dreams. It’s a raunchy, rowdy, flat-out funny collegecomedy that critics are calling “freakin’ hilarious” (Steven Chupnick, MovieWeb.com)!BONUS MATERIALS:Picture in Picture Commentary with Steve Pink, Justin Long, Lewis Black, Jonah Hill and Adam HerschmanProduction PhotographsAdam’s Accepted ChroniclesReject Rejection: The Making of AcceptedSelf-Guided Campus Tour”Hangin’ onthe Half Pipe” Music VideoThe Ringers – “Keeping Your Heads Up” Music VideoFeature Commentarywith Director Steve Pink, Justin Long, Lewis Black, Jonah Hill and Adam HerschmanDeleted ScenesGag ReelAmazon.com
Justin Long has been hovering on the edges of movies like The Break-Up and Dodgeball, providing little comic bursts that are often funnier than the rest of the movie. In Accepted, Long plays Bartleby Gaines, a fast-talking slacker who, when he gets rejected by every college he applied to, invents a phony college to get his parents off his back. Unfortunately, the website his best friend creates is too effective–hundreds of other rejects apply and are accepted. Instead of revealing the hoax, Gaines decides to forge ahead and let the students create their own curriculum, little suspecting that their school is obstructing the expansion plans of the nearby snobbish college. Accepted is much better than you might expect, given the low bar set by most campus comedies; it aims for, and sometimes achieves, the blend of slapstick and social satire that Animal House embodied. Long proves to be a charming leading man without losing his quirky comic sense and the supporting cast is consistently entertaining, particularly stand-up comedian Lewis Black, who delivers a variety of sardonic rants about society. Accepted‘s critique of conformism is glib–you wish they’d given it a little more bite–but it’s still valid and a pleasant sliver of substance in an otherwise vapid genre. –Bret Fetzer

Accepted

July 22 2010

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future

Product Description
Find out how social media communications is changing the content provider industry in Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Technology Changes Our Lives and Our Future.  Developed through a collaborative wiki, this book is a collection of information from social media experts and serves as an example of how social media impacts the way we provide and receive content.  You will learn how social media changes the way businesses market products and services, influences how people interact with the government, and dictates how we communicate with one another on a personal level.

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future

July 20 2010

VTech IS9181 WiFi Streaming Music Device with Access to Online Content

  • Stream music across the 802.11 b/g WiFi network with “Best-in-Class” range. Brodband Internet service and a home WiFi network router are required
  • Listen to Internet radio from the available 11,000 stations with no monthly fee
  • Access Internet radio stations from our user-friendly online site or on the device itself
  • Play music from any audio device (I.e. CD player, MP3 player, etc.)
  • Connect to any stereo system or powered speakers to access sreaming internet radio or music files stored on a PC or Mac

Product Description
WiFi Streaming Music Device with Access to Online Content

VTech IS9181 WiFi Streaming Music Device with Access to Online Content

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