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Book Description

With the jQuery UI library, you can apply the power and standards of jQuery to user interface design, complete with interactive elements, animation, and themeable widgets. This concise, code-heavy guide demonstrates how to harness interactive features that HTML5 lacks, including tabs, accordions, and dialog boxes. You’ll also learn how to program common but complex tasks, such as managing drag and drop and autocomplete, that make it easier for users to interact with your site.

This book provides a quick tour of how jQuery UI can improve your HTML pages, followed by standalone chapters that focus on each of the components in detail. If you’re a web developer or designer looking to enrich your website with new features—without having to dive into full-fledged Javascript—jQuery UI is a must.

This book covers the following extensions in version 1.8:

• Tab management
• Accordion menus
• Dialog boxes
• Buttons
• Progress bars
• Sliders
• Date pickers Download Now »

Book Description

Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.

Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.

• Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line
• Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others
• Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shell
• Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account
• Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features

Table of Contents
Part I: Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Chapter 1. Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal
Chapter 2. Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands
Chapter 3. Installing Drush
Chapter 4. Getting Started with Version Control Download Now »

Book Description

The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design which, when employed correctly, allows developers to literally handcraft every aspect of a site, so that it looks and performs exactly how they want it to. While it is reasonably straightforward to download a Drupal theme and install it, doing anything beyond that is not. Using custom themes requires familiarity and experience with Drupal’s theming system, especially if you want to easily administer and maintain your themes.

Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of its extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide which will allow users to take full advantage of Drupal’s theming system.

This cookbook starts with recipes which address the basics of Drupal’s theme system, including regions and blocks. It then moves on to advanced topics such as creating a custom theme and using it to modify the layout and style of content. With the introduction of the Field API and the growing importance of Views and Panels in Drupal 7, chapters have been dedicated to each feature. You will also learn many techniques for dealing with Drupal’s templating system, which will allow you create themes which surpass even the existing Drupal and contributed modules.

What you will learn from this book

• Improve your knowledge of the basics of Drupal theming such as installing and enabling a downloaded theme, changing the logo, and adding a slogan
• Customize the look of your website by configuring Download Now »

Book Description

In Theme Tumblr Like a Pro, Nettuts+ editor Jeffrey Way will teach you everything you need to start making powerful Tumblr themes while maintaining the platform’s core principle: simplicity.

Tumblr’s ease of use and streamlined approach has made it one of the web’s fastest growing blog platforms.

This book includes a completed Tumblr theme and all the asset files you need to build your own version of the theme as you progress through the book.

As an added bonus, we’ve included a series of screencasts by Jeffrey Way himself! The screencasts take you through the theme development process outlined in the book, all the way from start to end.

By the time you finish this book, you’ll be a Tumblr master!

Review
Jeffrey Way makes Tumblr Theme Development laughably easy with this book. I dare to say that this book is the WordPress codex of Tumblr, is an in-depth Tumblr Documentation. Whether you’re an advanced Tumblr theme developer or just a beginner you’ll find this book incredibly useful.
– Ivor Padilla – Themeforest Author

Theme Tumblr Like a Pro is really a must have for anyone looking to jump right into the Tumblr platform. Having taught myself the Tumblr platform before reading this book, I can honestly say Jeffrey did a fantastic job of covering the varied facets of Tumblr Theme development. Download Now »

Book Description

Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress.

By following the book’s advice, readers can produce designs that are aesthetically stunning, consistent, and for-purpose -whether it’s for their own use, or to drive a high price on the theme marketplace.

All facets of theme design are covered: from design, coding, and deployment, to ensuring readers’ designs are ready-to-go as soon as they’re installed.

Wicked WordPress Themes teaches readers how to leverage theme design frameworks to dramatically shorten development time, enabling them to enter the theme market faster.

About the Author
Allan Cole is a web designer and developer based in Brooklyn, NY and is widely known as a Thematic framework guru. He specializes in front-end user experience and WordPress customization.

Raena Jackson Armitage is an Australian web developer with a background in content management and training. A former SitePoint technical editor, you’ll find her speaking at some of the more popular geek conferences. Download Now »

Book Description

Moodle is a highly extensible virtual learning environment and is used to deliver online teaching and training materials. Theming is one of the main features of Moodle that can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle Themes that you are proud of, and that your students would enjoy, then this is the book for you.

This book will show you how to create themes for Moodle, change pre-installed Moodle themes, and download new themes from various resources on the Internet. It is filled with suggestions and examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.

This book starts off by introducing Moodle, explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. It then moves on to show you in detailed steps how to choose and change a Moodle theme, and explains what Moodle themes are and how they work. It shows you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made.

The latter half of this book will start you off on the road to creating your own themes from scratch. It provides detailed instructions to guide you through the stages of creating a stunning theme for your Moodle site. From planning theme creation, through to the slicing and dicing, and more advanced Moodle theming processes, this book will give you step-by-step instructions to create your own Moodle theme. Download Now »