Web Design Bibliography

uses practical examples to build a Drupal powered website. The video is for anyone interested in learning about open source software. You don’t have to know any code or have any experience with HTML or website development. Some intermediate and advanced topics will be covered, including using the Views module and writing your own custom modules and themes. To get started now, simply click on the movie links.
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    Building Websites With WordPress
    By Geoff Blake
    InfiniteSkills, January 2012
    ISBN: 9781926873831
    8 hours 52 minutes, $99.95

    In this computer based training course, expert designer, trainer and author Geoff Blake teaches you how to use WordPress to build a seamless, professional website. Not intended for the faint of heart, this training course focuses on the process and details of building a website with WordPress from scratch. By the conclusion of this video training course you will be fully capable of customizing WordPress to build your own, fully functional websites. This video tutorial comes complete with working files so that you can create a website alongside the author with the same files he uses.
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    Web Designer’s Guide to WordPress: Plan, Theme, Build, Launch
    By Jesse Friedman
    New Riders, August 2012
    ISBN: 9780133016758
    288 pages, $31.99

    Legions of web designers and developers are choosing WordPress for building sites. That’s because it’s powerful, reliable, flexible, scalable — and more. This book is your complete guide to mastering WordPress theme development, covering everything from installation to leveraging the community and resources to improve your WordPress skills for years to come
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    Using Drupal, Second Edition
    By Angela Byron, Addison Berry, Bruno De Bondt
    O’Reilly Media, Inc., April 2012
    ISBN: 9781449305543
    494 pages, $32.20

    With the recipes in this book, you’ll take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framework useful and unique. Learn how to combine modules in interesting ways to develop a variety of community-driven websites. You get case studies that outline specific requirements for several projects — a wiki, publishing workflow site, photo gallery, product review site, online store, user group site, and more. This second edition offers through coverage of Drupal 7.
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    SMASHING: WordPress Themes: MAKING WORDPRESS BEAUTIFUL
    By Thord Daniel Hedengren
    John Wiley & Sons, February 2011
    ISBN: 9780470669907
    368 pages, $39.99

    WordPress is so much more than a blogging platform, and this book teaches you how to make it look any way they like - from a corporate site, to a photography gallery and more. It takes you through what really makes themes tick, what you can do with themes, and techniques for getting the best results. Starting with the WordPress Twenty Ten default theme, you’ll learn to work with template tags and create option pages for your themes. Next you’ll explore the child theme concept and create a variety of theme styles, fully customizing the look and feel of your WordPress-powered site.
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    Using WordPress
    By Tris Hussey
    Que, September 2010
    ISBN: 9780132182836
    368 pages, $24.99

    This book is a customized, media-rich learning experience designed to help you master Wordpress quickly, and get the most out of it, fast! It starts with a concise, friendly, straight-to-the-point guide to Wordpress. This exceptional book is fully integrated with an unprecedented collection of online learning resources: online video, screencasts, podcasts, and additional web content, all designed to reinforce key concepts and help users achieve real mastery. The book and online content work together to teach everything mainstream Wordpess users need to know.
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    Drupal 7 Development by Example
    By Kurt Madel
    Packt Publishing, May 2012
    ISBN: 9781849516808
    270 pages, $29.99

    This book has numerous code examples that will not only introduce new Drupal 7 development concepts, but will give you the skills needed to build a world-class Drupal website. By following the development of a recipe-sharing, e-commerce site, you will quickly and easily get your own Drupal site