Blogging Guides | Make Money Blogging | Start Online Business | » Wordpress Books http://get-blogging.com Our Blogging Guides will show you How To Make Money Blogging and Start an Online Business. Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:30:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript http://get-blogging.com/general/foundation-website-creation-with-css-xhtml-and-javascript http://get-blogging.com/general/foundation-website-creation-with-css-xhtml-and-javascript#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:37:54 +0000 admin http://get-blogging.com/wordpress-books/foundation-website-creation-with-css-xhtml-and-javascript

This book covers the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides you with all the information you’ll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional, best-practice-based results.

There is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place, and this book introduces you to the agile development process, explaining why this method makes so much sense for web projects and how best to implement it. Planning is vital, so you’ll also learn how to use techniques such as brainstorming, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to get your project off to the best possible start and help ensure smooth progress as it develops.

An understanding of correct, semantic markup is essential to any web professional, so this book explains how XHTML should be used to structure content so that the markup adheres to current web standards. You’ll learn about the wide range of HTML elements available to you, and you’ll learn how and when to use them through building example web pages.

Without creative use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), websites would all look largely the same. CSS gives you the ability to set your website apart from the rest while maintaining the integrity of your markup. You’ll learn how CSS works and how to apply styles to your pages, enabling you to realize your design ideas in the browser.

JavaScript can be used to make your website easier and more interesting to use. This book provides information on appropriate uses of this technology and introduces the concepts of programming using it. You’ll also see how JavaScript works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax and in turn where Ajax fits into the wider Web 2.0 picture.

While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of ability or disability, and the book explains how best to do these tasks. Then, it discusses the process of launching and maintaining the site so that it will continue to work for all its users throughout its life-cycle.

The book concludes by covering server-side technologies, acting as a guide to the different options available and explaining differences between available products. With insights from renowned experts such as Jason Fried of 37signals, Daniel Burka of Digg and Pownce, and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Foundation Website Creation provides invaluable information applicable to every web project, regardless of size, scope, or budget.

In this book you’ll

  • See how the Web has developed and the role web standards play
  • Learn how to plan and manage the building of a website
  • Learn how to separate content from presentation with HTML and CSS
  • See how JavaScript can be used to enhance your website
  • Learn how best to test, launch, and maintain a website

Summary of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Introducing the Past, Present, and Future of the Web
  • Chapter 2 Keeping a Project on Track
  • Chapter 3 Planning and High-Level Design
  • Chapter 4 Writing Markup with HTML and XHTML
  • Chapter 5 Exploring Fundamental Concepts of CSS
  • Chapter 6 Developing CSS in Practice: From Design to Deployment
  • Chapter 7 Creating Interactivity with JavaScript
  • Chapter 8 Testing, Launching, and Maintaining
  • Chapter 9 Web 2.0: Using Ajax and Social Software
  • Chapter 10 Using Server-Side Technologies
  • Afterword The Business of the Web

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Social media is a crucial tool for success in business today. People are already talking about your business using social media, whether you’re using it or not. By becoming part of the conversation, you can start connecting directly to your customers, as well as finding new ones, easily and inexpensively spreading the word about your products or services.

But social media marketing isn’t like traditional marketing-and treating it that way only leads to frustration. Let Shama Hyder Kabani, president of Web marketing firm Marketing Zen and social media expert, teach you the “zen” of social media marketing: how to access all the benefits of social media marketing without the stress!

With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Chris Brogan, The Zen of Social Media Marketing outlines the most popular social media tools, from Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn, and teaches you how to use them, step by step. She provides proven strategies for success from the businesses she works with every day, along with shortcuts and tips to help you make the most of your time and energy.

The Zen of Social Media Marketing is also the last social media guide you’ll ever need: with the physical book you also get access to the exclusive online edition, which includes regular updates and video extras to make sure you’re always on top of the latest in social media.

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The modern Web is awash with data and services just waiting to be used, but how do you make effective use of all this information? The answer lies in APIs (such as Google Maps, Flickr, and Amazon Web Services) and remixing, or mashups. Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services teaches you everything you need to create useful, dynamic real–world applications using APIs, web services, Ajax, web standards, and server–side languages. All you need to make full use of this book is basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and at least one server–side language (such as PHP or ASP.NET).

Highlights include the following:

  • Looks at the overall shape of todays Web from a developers point of view-what are its main features, and what is available for us to use to develop applications?
  • Contains real–world examples of creating mashups using all the major APIs.
  • Contains examples written in multiple server–side languages.

What you’ll learn

  • Understand how the constituent parts of the modern Web fit together-web standards, Ajax, APIs, libraries, tagging, blogs, wikis, and more.
  • Create different types of mashup, for example mapping mashups, search functionality, calendars, RSS/Atom feeds, social bookmarking, online storage systems, open document formats, and more.
  • Build Web 2.0 applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, server–side languages, APIs, and libraries

Who is this book for?

This book is for any web developer who is already comfortable with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and at least one server–side language and wants to learn how to create Web 2.0 applications.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

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In this book you’ll learn

  • How to take best advantage of the built-in semantics of XHTML and HTML
  • How to extend the semantics of HTML using microformats and open up a world of new possibilities with web applications
  • Every aspect of all the common microformats currently in use
  • How microformats help your websites and applications easily integrate with web applications like Google Maps, as well as desktop applications like iCal, outlook, and entourage
  • What innovative publishers and services, big and small, are doing right now with microformats

Summary of Contents

  • PART ONE: INTRODUCING MICROFORMATS
    • Chapter 1: What Are Microformats?
    • Chapter 2: The State of the Art in Microformats
  • PART TWO: USING MICROFORMATS
    • Chapter 3: Structural and Semantic HTML
    • Chapter 4: Link-Based Microformats: rel-license, rel-tag rel-nofollow, and VoteLinks
    • Chapter 5:Microformat to Describe Relationships Between People: XFN
    • Chapter 6: Location Microformats: geo and adr
    • Chapter 7: Contact Information Microformat: hCard
    • Chapter 8: Event Microformat: hCalendar
    • Chapter 9: Review and Resume Microformats: hReview and hResume
    • Chapter 10: Syndicated Content Microformat: hAtom.
  • PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
    • Chapter 11: Case Study: Cork’d
    • Chapter 12: Case Study: Yahoo
  • PART FOUR: DEVELOPING MICROFORMATS
    • Chapter 13: The Process of Developing Microformats
  • PART FIVE: APPENDIXES
    • Appendix A: Microformat Specification Reference
    • Appendix B: Microformat Design Patterns
    • Appendix C: People, Tools, Services, and Publishers

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Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes

 

Chuck Tomasi

Kreg Steppe

 

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to build great blogs with WordPress and WordPress.org, and reach any audience by web browser, RSS, or cell phone!

 

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

 

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

 

Notes provide additional information

 

Plain English definitions explain new terms

 

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

  • Quickly build blogs for free with WordPress.com
  • Customize your blog to fit your message
  • Create powerful text, audio, and video content
  • Moderate comments and build communities
  • Set up RSS feeds
  • Host your own blog with WordPress.org software
  • Deliver content via iPhone and BlackBerry
  • Streamline publishing with third-party tools

 

Register your book at informit.com/register for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

 

Category:  Internet

Covers:  WordPress

User Level:  Beginning

 

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Blog Your Way to the Big Time

Attract millions and make big money using success secrets from cyber superstars and blogging pros, including entertainment blogger Perez Hilton and Blogger.com’s Taj Campbell. Learn how to build a noteworthy online identity, captivate the masses, and break into mainstream media-leveraging your creativity, not your bank account. Plus, discover how to immediately cash in on your online platform and new-found popularity!

  • Create a custom, sticky blog site using free blogging services
  • Transform your opinions, expertise, commentary, audio/video creations, and the like into your next paycheck
  • Dare your audience to take notice with 101 proven blogging topics and subject matters
  • Gain the competitive advantage using expert advice from the world’s best known bloggers and blog experts
  • Use original, innovative techniques and powerful tools to make your blog stand out
  • Learn how to avoid the 10 most common blogger mistakes
  • And more

On the net, no topic is off limits. Share your opinions, thoughts, commentary, audio/video creations, and expertise to build your online presence and launch yourself into stardom!

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Inside you will find the need-to-know info to get your blog noticed: How to choose the right blogging platform or content management tool, select a web host, dress up your blog, manage blog content and keep your privates private! When you are ready for more, The Moxie Girls will treat you to insider dish on blog etiquette, analyzing blog traffic, blogging for business, creating podcasts and adding bling to your blog with plugins, add-ons and more. Throw in the refreshing cocktails, beauty tips and gossip with the Girls at the end of each chapter and you’ll be Blogging with Moxie in no time. So, what are you waiting for?

The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging With Moxie is packed with the content you need wrapped in casual, engaging dialog and a cheeky, bite-sized format.

  • Bargain-blogging with tools such as WordPress®, TypePad®, and Vox
  • Choosing a content management system like Expression Engine or Movable Type
  • Managing blog content, using tags and moderating comments
  • Selecting a professional designer and choosing from off-the-rack templates
  • An introduction to podcasting and videocasting
  • Finding, joining and managing blog communities
  • Protecting your online identity
  • Using a blog to better your business

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- Articles by thirty leading bloggers and commentators – Profiles of more than fifty leading blogs – A directory of 1,200 political blogs – The best 500 political blogs in the UK – The best 100 Conservative, Labour and LibDem blogs

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