Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies

Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies

Curious about Google Sites and how team collaboration Web sites can help you share documents online from various locations? Curious about Google’s new Chrome browser? Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies has what you want to know!

Today, Google is so much more than another word for “search.” Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies shows you how to create great collaborative Web sites with Google Sites and surf the Web with the super-fast Google Chrome browser. Find out how they work with other Google Apps, too. You’ll learn to:

• Take advantage of free hosting, free tools, and a simple, straightforward interface with Google Sites.
• Set up a Google account or Google Apps account.
• Create wiki sites that let coworkers collaborate on projects or keep family members up to date.
• Use Google gadgets to keep track of projects, manage calendars and documents, or display photos.
• Integrate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other Google Apps into your site.
• Work with Contact List, Google Talk, and Google Chat, and handle e-mail with Gmail.
• Download and install the speedy Google Chrome browser.
• Install browser plug-ins, enable offline access to Google Docs, and manage misbehaving tabs.
  

You’ll even find instructions and examples to help you plan sites for personal and business use, plus a sample college course site. With advice from Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies, you can make collaboration easy and have the high-speed Web at your fingertips.

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Joomla! For Dummies

Joomla! For Dummies

Publisher : For Dummies
Date : 2009-01-14
ISBN : 047043287X
File Format : PDF
File Sizes : 9.08MB
Pages : 364 pages

With its pre-coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies.

Learn to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, let your guests sign up for e-mail lists, and much more.

Joomla! For Dummies helps you to:

• Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page.
• See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout.
• Use templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them to...
• Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modules.
• Build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic.
• Explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them.
• Check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do.
• Find modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more.

Joomla! lets you concentrate on content instead of struggling with code. So grab Joomla! For Dummies and start creating!

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Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML, PHP, and MySQL

Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML, PHP, and MySQL

Author: Guy W. Lecky-Thompson
File Sizes : 2.65 Mb

Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML, PHP, and MySQL provides a layperson’s guide to web programming for the casual web designer, student, or serious professional. The book explains how to build powerful interactive sites, whether you’re designing a bulletin board, game, or web store. As part of the Just Enough series, the book provides “just enough” information to get you started quickly, without overloading you with unnecessary details. After a brief introduction, the book concisely explains the XML, XHTML, and CSS concepts you need to understand to start creating web sites. From there, you’ll start programming and learning the basics of client side and server side scripting and web databases. Then it’s time to put it all together using Content Management Systems. The book includes several chapters on emerging Web 2.0 and how you can put it to use to create your own interactive sites quickly. Part of the beauty of Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML, PHP, and MySQL is its breadth of coverage. By cutting out what you don’t need, the book helps you learn a lot about web programming, and helps you put all of the information together to make a site quickly. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!

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Spring into HTML and CSS

Spring into HTML and CSS

Author: Molly E. Holzschlag
file sizes : 5.67 Mb

Need to build a web site? Or update one? Or just create some effective new web content? Maybe you just need to update your skills, do the job better.

Welcome. This book's for you. We'll leverage what you already know about the web, so you'll go further, faster than you ever expected. You'll master today's best practices: the real nuts and bolts, not theory or hooey. You'll learn through dozens of focused HTML, XHTML, and CSS examples: crafted for simplicity and easy to adapt for your own projects.

Need specific solutions? This book's modular, visual, high-efficiency format delivers them instantly. Dig in, get started, get results!

* Learn how to build web pages that'll work in any environment, on virtually any contemporary browser
* Construct templates that simplify every page you develop
* Structure and tag text so it's easy to work with and manage
* Add images, media, and scripts - quickly and reliably
* Discover the right ways to use HTML tables
* Build easy-to-use forms and validate your users' input
* Use CSS to take total control over your site's look and feel
* Master core CSS techniques: color, images, text styles, link effects, lists, navigation, and more
* Control margins, borders, padding, positioning, floats, even Z-index
* Design efficient, compatible, easy-to-manage CSS layouts

Includes concise XHTML and CSS annotated references: quick help for every language element

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Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers 2009

Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers 2009

Author : Antonio Cangiano
ISBN : 978-0470374955
file sizes : 6.17 Mb

This definitive guide examines how to take advantage of the new Agile methodologies offered when using Ruby on Rails (RoR). You’ll quickly grasp the RoR methodology by focusing on the RoR development from the point of view of the beginner- to intermediate-level Microsoft developer. Plus, you’ll get a reliable roadmap for migrating your applications, skill set, and development processes to the newer, more agile programming platform that RoR offers. From the Back Cover With its valuable combination of simplicity and productivity, Ruby on Rails is a portable, extendable, open source web application framework that quickly gained worldwide acclaim. The aim of this book is to make the enticing Rails methodology more approachable for developers who are already familiar with Microsoft tools. After an overview and brief history of the framework, you'll focus on learning Rails development from the point of view of a beginner-to-intermediate level Microsoft developer. The author explores all the fundamental aspects of Rails, and includes comparisons and references to Microsoft development tools that you may already be familiar with. In doing so, he provides you with an easier path to learn how Rails simplifies the design and implementation of web applications. By serving as a roadmap for migrating your skill set, development processes, and applications to the newer Agile programming platform that Rails offers, this book will help you leverage your existing skills so you can quickly take advantage of the full potential of Rails.

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