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6 reviews
William Rice

Packt Publishing, 2007

Practical and Useful Moodle Strategies
Rice is his previous book, Moodle E-Learning Course Development, also by PACKT, covered all the how-tos of the online software. In this book, he demonstrates how to take advantage of this powerful medium. After reading about the philosophy behind Moodle in the first chapter, I looked with anticipation to the techniques. I didn't have to wait long. The first technique shows how to set up a ...

jQuery Reference Guide

7 reviews
Karl Swedberg, Jonathan Chaffer

Packt Publishing, 2007

Dig deeper into the DOM and AJAX with jQuery
You might question whether or not a book is even necessary given the wealth of information already available on the jQuery library. I am an avid user of jQuery, semi-active in the community, I have developed a few plug-ins, and I certainly understand the need for this resource guide. The online documentation is extremely terse, and in order to get an in-depth understanding of the library, a ...

Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP

13 reviews
Joseph LeBlanc

Packt Publishing, 2007

A great starter book.
This is a very good starter book that explains a lot of newbie questions you may have about Joomla development. It does kind of pull you by a nose rings in some spots by telling you you need to do this but no real explanation of why. But considering how much information is packed into this small book, its acceptable. This book won't make you an expert Joomla developer but it will have you ...

Drupal 6 Themes

1 review
Ric Shreves

Packt Publishing, 2008

This book hits the target
Every book has a target audience - this book's is pretty narrow is scope - people that want to understand how theming drupal 6 works. Ric Shreves hits the target! I am a mid level drupalite - not a ninja programmer or designer but not a beginner either. I found it very helpful. Theming is the "art" of making your website look exactly how you want it. This book shows you everything you need ...

WordPress Theme Design

10 reviews
Tessa Blakeley Silver

Packt Publishing, 2008

What is really needs...
This book is helpful, however Dreamweaver users may want to check into ThemeDreamer. It turns Dreamweaver into the only WYSIWYG WordPress theme editor on the planet! This greatly simplifies things as you no longer need to parse files, have documentation at your fingertips (context sensitive help), not to mention unlocking DW's design potential -almost lost to the bold new world of CMS and hand ...

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

7 reviews
Matt Butcher

Packt Publishing, 2008

Relief there is a dedicated title on Drupal 6 module development
I must say I was asked to review this book, and I was very excited to do so. I thought it'd be good to comment on areas for people who aren't familiar with Drupal on a daily basis yet, and to give you some background, I was very excited to read this book. I needed a book that had the words "Drupal 6" and "module development" in it and luckily this book was titled exactly that and delivered. So, ...

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6

15 reviews
David Mercer

Packt Publishing, 2008

Drupal 6, David Mercer, Packt
This is a good book to read even if you read Drupal 5 by the same author/publisher. It is a beginning level book but covers the new features nicely. This book assumes you do not know HTML or PHP. The illustrations of the dialog screens are very helpful. There is a very nice one of cpanel and phpMyAdmin although they are not part of Drupal, they can be used for back-ups of your Drupal website. ...

Expert Python Programming

4 reviews
Tarek Ziadé

Packt Publishing, 2008

Expert Python is for just that Experts
Expert Python Programming was not what I was expecting to get from a book about Python. I am not a savvy python programmer yet, and in my quest to become one I picked this book up to read. It certainly is not for beginners, and I mean that. If you are not comfortable you may wish to skip it, if you are daring and have the basics of programming down then you can slip this one into your ...

Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

24 reviews
Karl Swedberg, Jonathan Chaffer

Packt Publishing, 2007

Great tutorial and reference!
This isn't just a great tutorial on jQuery, it's also a terrific bookshelf reference. I find myself grabbing it off the shelf once or twice a day to jog my memory or to find a concise example of what I'm trying to do. The examples are clear and complete and don't leave you with any missing pieces. Definitely essential reading if you're taking on development with jQuery.

AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications

27 reviews
Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea, ...

Packt Publishing, 2006

Grea book for beginners and intermediates.
AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications This is a great book for beginners as well as intermediate users of AJAX. I have about 5 years of experience with PHP and 7 with Javascript and I had none with AJAX. I read a few tutorials online about AJAX and after reading some of this book, I love it. This book is a great start with AJAX, especially if you are a PHP programmer like ...

Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library

9 reviews
Dan Wellman

Packt Publishing, 2008

Great Book on YUI Library
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a free resource provided by Yahoo! for web developers. It's a collection of utilities that enable developers to build cross-browser web applications quickly and easily. This library has been around for a few years now and is very extensive. It contains utilities, components, controls (widgets), and CSS tools. This can be very confusing for the developer who ...

PHP 5 CMS Framework Development

1 review
Martin Brampton

Packt Publishing, 2008

should "Aliro" also have been in the title ?
Perhaps "Aliro" should have been in the title? It is the name of a CMS written by the author in PHP5. The entire book can be considered as a case study in how and why to use PHP5 for writing web applications. As opposed to perhaps using PHP4 or another server side scripting language. The book delves into detailed aspects of Aliro and how it can be customised by you for your particular CMS ...

Joomla! Template Design: Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide

9 reviews
Tessa, Blakeley Silver

Packt Publishing, 2007

The best (only!) Joomla book worth getting
This is the best and really the ONLY book out there for Joomla. Now, I have to admit that I don't really like Joomla. However, I'm a web designer and occasionally I have to create or work on sites in Joomla anyway. At first, I bought another Joomla book but all it did was left me confused. It didn't help me and didn't talk at all about fixing up a template to reflect a client's logo and ...

Moodle E-Learning Course Development

9 reviews
William Rice

Packt Publishing, 2006

Plain, clear and exhaustive
I found this book very useful, it allowed me to set up a full Moodle site and course for my training company within less than a week. Clear, easy to read, with good structure, and exhaustive - in terms that it allows one to install and setup moodle, shows multiple possibilities of creating courses and lessons, as well as good examples. Everything is written in a language just one level above a ...

WordPress Complete: set up, customize, and market your blog

16 reviews
Hasin Hayder

Packt Publishing, 2006

Good for beginning Wordpress developers, bad for the rest of the world.
This book is over-priced, padded with useless screenshots and poorly edited. The first 100 pages - and some of the back hundred for that matter - are filled with distracting explanations of topics irrelevant to properly using and building bloggy websites with Wordpress. The English is a mishmash of South Asian/British/American that reads like it was written by a tired programmer at 3 in the ...

Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6: A clear, concise, and practical guide to creating a professional ...

3 reviews
Leonard Murphy

Packt Publishing, 2008

Great book for getting started with Expression Engine
I have been looking at Content Management systems for the last year and love wordpress as a blogging platform and CMS. After reading blogs from other web designers who use Wordpress for small sites, they mentioned using Expression Engine for larger, more complex projects. I became very interested in this platform and searched for a book to help me learn how to install it, administer and design ...

Openfire Administration
Mayank Sharma

Packt Publishing, 2008

This easy-to-use practical guide will teach you how to build efficient and secure Instant Messaging networks for your organization. This book is for System Administrators who want to set up an in-house enterprise IM system using Openfire. The reader will need experience in managing servers on any operating system.

Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

1 review
William Rice

Packt Publishing, 2008

Basics Good...1.9 it is not!
As Distance Learning Director at a community college currently using Moodle 1.9, I can say that this book covers the basics of Moodle very well. But to say it covers Moodle 1.9 is a stretch. The largest change in Moodle 1.9 from 1.8 by far was the gradebook functionality. In fact, Moodle completely redesigned the gradebook for 1.9. I find it very disconcerting that the publishers of this book ...

Object-Oriented JavaScript

7 reviews
Stoyan Stefanov

Packt Publishing, 2008

One of the top books in the field
Having read a large number of JavaScript books, I would say that this is easily one of the best around. The introductory chapters are above average, and thoughtfully mention a number of useful details. The core chapters in the book describe Functions, Objects, Prototype, and Inheritance. These chapters alone are worth the price of the book. They are probably clearer than any other book on the ...

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

3 reviews
Hagen Graf

Packt Publishing, 2008

optimised for search engines!
Joomla [sorry, I just won't add that exclamation mark after it] is targeting the novice website designer and programmer. By some definitions, a designer need not be concerned with the messy details of actually making webpages. However, Joomla is easy enough to pick up that a designer might well be tempted to indulge in actual page design and generation. It does aim at websites where the ...

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