Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful

Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful By Thord Daniel Hedengren
English | 1 edition 2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 047066990X | PDF | 7 MB

The ultimate guide to WordPress Themes - one of the hottest topics on the web today
WordPress is so much more than a blogging platform, and Smashing WordPress Themes teaches readers how to make it look any way they like - from a corporate site, to a photography gallery and more

WordPress is one of the hottest tools on the web today and is used by sites including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, flickr, CNN, NASA and of course Smashing Magazine
Beautiful full colour throughout - web designers expect nothing less
Smashing Magazine will fully support this book by by promoting it through their website and on twitter feeds


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The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web design Tips, Tricks and Techniques

The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web design Tips, Tricks and Techniques
The Photoshop Anthology is full-color, question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Websites and create better looking web graphics more effectively. The book covers: Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images and more Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce and more Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more Advanced: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions and more.
Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.

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MongoDB and PHP By Steve Francia

MongoDB and PHP By Steve Francia
What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.
Written by the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen—the company that develops and supports this open source database—this book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized for operations and scale.

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Beginning iOS Application Development with HTML and JavaScript

Beginning iOS Application Development with HTML and JavaScript
Web developers with HTML/JS skills will quickly learn to apply them to the iPhone/iPad platform
Beginning to intermediate web developers who want to apply their existing HTML/CSS/JS/Ajax skills to the wildly popular iPhone/iPad OS will love this book. In the highly successful Wrox Beginning format, it enables developers who know these core technologies to use what they already know and get up to speed quickly. It introduces iOS development with web technologies, explains how to enable and optimize web sites for the iPhone and iPad, explores user interface design, then moves into animation, special effects, building with web frameworks, and much more.

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Web Design Bundle (Best Practices, UX, Typography, Business)

Web Design Bundle (Best Practices, UX, Typography, Business)
If you are a professional Web designer, or looking for an expert advice on how to become one, this bundle is for you. The bundle contains four high-quality Smashing eBooks on the various areas: the technical, visual and business side of Web design.
"Modern Web Design and Development" contains articles on on responsive Web design, Web security, coding tips and best practices for HTML5 and CSS3 as well as Photoshop tricks, UX persuasion triggers and designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display. The eBook touches on what Web designers should be ready for to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities.

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