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Build a Website for Free
Mark Bell
$14.12

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Build a Website for Free

Build yourself a state-of-the-art website.It’s incredibly easy... and it won’t cost you a dime! You need a website. But you don’t need the hassles that usually go with building one, or the expense of hiring someone else to do it. Here’s your solution: Build a Website for Free! You’ll learn how you can use new Web 2.0 technologies to create a site that’s impressive and effective. And here’s the best part: You’ll do it all with software and tools that won’t cost you a dime!

•        Plan, organize, and design a site that really works, using tools you can find for free

•        Discover the simple secrets of writing pages people want to read

•        Use video on your site—and get someone else to pay for hosting it

•        Add an easy-to-update blog and start building your own web community

•        Quickly and easily handle “nuts and bolts” tasks, from getting your site name to uploading your
          content

•        Get your site picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and other search engines

•        Adapt your site for easy viewing on cell phones

Mark Bell is a Ph.D. student in the Indiana University Telecommunications department. He studies virtual worlds and mediated trust with the Synthetic Worlds Initiative and has spent 15 years in the computer industry. Mark created his first website in 1992, ran a web design company in the ‘90s, and consults on several academic web projects.

CATEGORY:  Internet/Web

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Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (2nd Edition)
Barrie M. North
$26.22

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The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!^TM--The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System

If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla!’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla!? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla! 1.5 reference content.

• Understand content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together
• Build Joomla! sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
• Organize content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables
• Create dynamic pages and effective navigation
• Work with Joomla! modules and components
• Learn how to optimize your Joomla! sites for search engines
• Follow three start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, a small business site, and a blog
• Identify the most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: find them and use them

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The accompanying site, www.joomlabook.com, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla!.

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Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer
John Quarto-vonTivadar
$10.82

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Stop guessing, start testing, and enjoy greater success with your website.

If you’re looking for more leads, sales, and profit from your website, then look no further than this expert guide to Google’s free A/B and multivariate website testing tool, Google Website Optimizer. Recognized online marketing guru and New York Times bestselling author, Bryan Eisenberg, and his chief scientist, John Quarto-vonTivadar, show you how to test and tune your site to get more visitors to contact you, buy from you, subscribe to your services, or take profitable actions on your site. This practical and easy-to-follow reference will help you:

• Develop a testing framework to meet your goals and objectives
• Improve your website and move more of your customers to action
• Select and categorize your products and services with a customer-centric view
• Optimize your landing pages and create copy that sells
• Choose the best test for a given application
• Reap the fullest benefits from your testing experience
• Increase conversions with over 250 testing ideas
• Save $25 on Google AdWords with coupon included in the book

Take the guesswork out of your online marketing efforts. Let Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer show you why you should test, how to test, and what to test on your site, and ultimately, help you discover what is best for your site and your bottom line.

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Million Dollar Website: Simple Steps to Help You Compete with the Big Boys - Even on a Small BusinessBudget
Lori Culwell
$6.39

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The only guide for the small business owner to create a revenue-enhancing website that lets them compete with the "big boys."

Award-winning website consultant Lori Culwell demonstrates how to create a website that will increase sales and generate repeat customers on a small business budget. Not just another "graphic design for the web" book, Culwell offers invaluable insider advice on what it takes to build a high-profile website, including dozens of guidelines to avoid the pitfalls of bad usability, with invaluable tips on:

• Enhancing brand awareness
• Creating graphic designs that keep customers engaged and not confused
• Writing web-savvy content
• Capitalizing on user feedback
• Making the most of search engine optimization
• Using blogs and social networking sites to increase traffic and get the word out

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ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Chris Love
$24.72

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* Uses the popular Problem;Design;Solution format to help readers, especially those who know how to code specific ASP.NET features, learn to "put it all together" into a complete Web application
* Emphasizes n-tier ASP.NET Web application architectural design, something intermediate and advanced ASP.NET developers need and can't find anywhere else
* Current edition is the most popular and discussed book in the p2p.wrox.com reader discussion forums
* Covers registration and membership system, user-selectable themes, content management systems, polls, mailing lists, forums, e-commerce stores, shopping carts, order management with real-time credit-card processing, localization, and other site features
* Developers also learn to handle master pages, themes, profiles, Web parts, server-side UI controls, compilation, deployment, instrumentation, error handling and logging, data access with ADO.NET and LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX, and much more

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Website
Paul McFedries
$13.19

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The essential guide for getting the internet traffic every smallbusiness owner needs. CD included.

Today’s small-business websites require advanced features that visitors expect: streaming video and audio; e-commerce; custom surveys, forms, and polls; and discussion groups. This book covers all the basics of creating and publicizing a successful webpage.

•Free CD includes JavaScript and numerous templates
•Everything from design and publishing the site to automating and publicizing It
•100 million websites as of 2006—and it keeps on growing
•Simple and easy how-to for small businesses and organizations that can’t afford a professional web designer

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The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Business Website - The Non-Technical Person's Handbook on How to Hire a Web Designer and Manage the Creation, Design and Marketing of a Successful Business Website
Jason P O'Connor
$31.10

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Learn how to get a successful, money-making website built for you correctly the first time. This book will arm you with everything you need to know to go from an outdated site or a simple idea to a brand new, fully-functional, money-making business website. You'll learn how to hire the perfect Web designer for a fair price and how to guide them to create the most user-friendly, powerful, trusted and successful website possible for your business and budget. And it will teach you the fundamentals you'll need to succeed on the Web. Jason O'Connor owns the Web design and marketing firm Oak Web Works, LLC (http://www.oakwebworks.com). He is an expert Web designer, programmer and marketer who takes you step by step through the entire website building process in this book. He'll give you in-the-trenches and cutting-edge information that will save you a lot of money, time and frustration. You will be guided through each step in the creation of a successful business website. You will discover how to plan your website, work with your Web designer and show you why you need to demand very specific things to ensure your online success. And you'll also learn ways you can market your website. You can suffer through the entire website building process and be massively disappointed with the end result, blind to the details, ignorant of website fundamentals, and full of regret for the amount of money you spent. Or you can ensure that you'll save time and money, understand what goes into a great website, have a relatively easy time with the whole process, be thrilled with the final product, and end up with a successful website that helps you achieve all your business goals. This book's entire purpose is to help you achieve the latter. Among the many Web business-related things this book will teach you are: 1.How to choose & hire the right Web design company or freelancer for your project. 2. How to manage the creation of a business website that increases your bottom line. 3. How to go from a simple idea to a fully-functional, money making website in no time flat. 4. How to choose the right navigation structure. 5. How to separate your site from your competition. 6. What every business website must have. 7. How design, marketing and programming properly interact to form every website. 8. How to ensure your website includes all three pillars of the Web. 9. How to choose the right web site for your business. 10. How to save serious money and time when getting your website built. 11. How to negotiate with the Web vendors you're considering hiring. 12. How to ensure you'll make money with your website. 13. What components make up every successful website. 14. What makes a business website great. 15. What to provide your Web vendor. 16. How to plan the creation of your website. 16. How to properly search online 17. How to choose the right website colors, fonts and layouts. 17. E-marketing tactics and strategies. If you need a new business website this book is for you.

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Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide)
Nixon Robin
$25.74

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If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You'll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You'll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites.

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You'll practice what you've learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.

This book will help you:

• Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming
• Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
• Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
• Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
• Use libraries and packages, including the Smarty web template system, PEAR program repository, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library
  
• Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly dynamic environment
• Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications

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Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript
Joseph R. Lewis
$2.97

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This book covers the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides you with all the information you'll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional, best-practice-based results.

There is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place, and this book introduces you to the agile development process, explaining why this method makes so much sense for web projects and how best to implement it. Planning is vital, so you'll also learn how to use techniques such as brainstorming, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to get your project off to the best possible start and help ensure smooth progress as it develops.

An understanding of correct, semantic markup is essential to any web professional, so this book explains how XHTML should be used to structure content so that the markup adheres to current web standards. You'll learn about the wide range of HTML elements available to you, and you'll learn how and when to use them through building example web pages.

Without creative use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), websites would all look largely the same. CSS gives you the ability to set your website apart from the rest while maintaining the integrity of your markup. You'll learn how CSS works and how to apply styles to your pages, enabling you to realize your design ideas in the browser.

JavaScript can be used to make your website easier and more interesting to use. This book provides information on appropriate uses of this technology and introduces the concepts of programming using it. You'll also see how JavaScript works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax and in turn where Ajax fits into the wider Web 2.0 picture.

While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of ability or disability, and the book explains how best to do these tasks. Then, it discusses the process of launching and maintaining the site so that it will continue to work for all its users throughout its life-cycle.

The book concludes by covering server-side technologies, acting as a guide to the different options available and explaining differences between available products. With insights from renowned experts such as Jason Fried of 37signals, Daniel Burka of Digg and Pownce, and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Foundation Website Creation provides invaluable information applicable to every web project, regardless of size, scope, or budget.

In this book you'll

• See how the Web has developed and the role web standards play
• Learn how to plan and manage the building of a website
• Learn how to separate content from presentation with HTML and CSS
• See how JavaScript can be used to enhance your website
• Learn how best to test, launch, and maintain a website

Summary of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introducing the Past, Present, and Future of the Web
• Chapter 2 Keeping a Project on Track
• Chapter 3 Planning and High-Level Design
• Chapter 4 Writing Markup with HTML and XHTML
• Chapter 5 Exploring Fundamental Concepts of CSS
• Chapter 6 Developing CSS in Practice: From Design to Deployment
• Chapter 7 Creating Interactivity with JavaScript
• Chapter 8 Testing, Launching, and Maintaining
• Chapter 9 Web 2.0: Using Ajax and Social Software
• Chapter 10 Using Server-Side Technologies
• Afterword The Business of the Web

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Jason Beaird
$23.59

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