Web Design Bibliography

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    Drupal’s Building Blocks: Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels
    By Earl Miles, Lynette Miles
    Addison-Wesley Professional
    ISBN: 9780321620354
    384 pages, $44.99

    This book is an authoritative tutorial, reference, and cookbook for Drupal’s most valuable modules. It contains indispensable, up-to-date information you won’t find anywhere else, as well as extensive sample recipe code designed for easy adaptation and reuse. Learn how to use modules with themes, integrate with SQL databases, customize views, add styling with custom-code-based designs and maintain full control over the sites you deploy. This book will help you create more powerful, flexible, usable, and manageable websites, whether you’re a web developer, designer, administrator, architect, or consultant.
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    The WordPress Anthology
    By Mick Olinik, Raena Jackson
    SitePoint, November 2011
    ISBN: 9780987153005
    400 pages, $39.95

    Written for developers, this book will take you beyond the basics to give you a thorough overview of the WordPress universe. With a cookbook-style approach, you can pick and choose what you need from each chapter to suit your projects.
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    WordPress Top Plugins
    By Brandon Corbin
    Packt Publishing, September 2010
    ISBN: 9781849511407
    252 pages, $39.99

    This book will walk you through finding and installing the best WordPress plugins for generating and sharing content, for building communities and reader base, and for generating real advertising revenue. There is literally a plugin for almost anything you want to achieve in WordPress. This book will show you how plugins work, and more importantly, how to install and activate them on your blog without you having to touch a single line of code, unless of course, you want to. Once you are through with plugin basics, content, and building a community, this book will show you how to generate revenue! It will cover the top plugins for turning your blog into a money making machine! This book will also cover plugins focused on tweaking and perfecting your blog’s overall look and feel, and functionality.
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    Getting Started with WordPress: Design Your Own Blog or Website
    By Todd Kelsey
    Course Technology PTR, July 2011
    ISBN: 9781435460065
    336 pages, $29.99

    This book is filled with hands-on WordPress examples and emphasizes real-world applications. It begins with the basics of WordPress, focusing on the free version of the software. It then progresses to explore other topics, including one-click installs, registering a domain name, and basic customizations. After building this solid foundation in WordPress fundamentals, more advanced and highly valuable concepts are introduced, like search engine optimization, categorization capabilities, and social media promotion strategies. This all-in-one resource will provide first-time bloggers with the tools they need to build a well-designed, effective blog that won’t get lost in the blogosphere.
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    Professional Joomla!
    By Dan Rahmel
    Wrox, October 2007
    ISBN: 9780470133941
    479 pages, $39.99

    This book covers the two main areas of the Joomla! field: development and deployment. It walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You’ll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you’ll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You’ll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.
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    WordPress Video QuickStart Guide (Video)
    By Matt Beck
    Peachpit Press, October 2011
    ISBN: 9780132826280
    2 hours 2 minutes, $29.99

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