Book Description

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.

Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site’s logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.

Develop Joomla! templates as well as learn to tweak them to meet your needs perfectly with clear and easy-to-follow recipes

What you will learn from this book :

• Get to grips with the basics of template design for Joomla! such as changing the logo and altering color schemes for your templates
• Understand Joomla! concepts such as module chrome and template positions
• Add a multilingual aspect to your website to cater to a larger audience
• Create custom error templates and generate revenue by displaying advertisements on your website
• Style Joomla!’s search results and customize Joomla!’s breadcrumb trail
• Create attractive and functional print styles for your website to make your content printer-friendly
• Customize the look and feel of your Joomla! website’s administration panel to match either your business or client identity
• Create social bookmarks, embed videos, and add a shoutbox to your Joomla! website to make it more user-friendly
• Integrate Joomla! with social media such as Twitter and YouTube
• Create and specify mobile stylesheets for you Joomla! website to style your Joomla! website more effectively for mobile users
• Use JavaScript to enhance your Joomla! templates
• A wide range of miscellaneous tips, tricks, and tasks to help get your Joomla! website one step closer to perfection

Approach
Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook contains step-by-step instructions for Joomla! users to customize their Joomla! templates. The book is designed so that you can refer to it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and read those that interest you in no particular order.

Who this book is written for
This book is written for Joomla! developers who want to improve the look and feel of their Joomla! sites. Readers are expected to have knowledge of CSS and (X)HTML. Although it will be helpful, no prior knowledge of Joomla! theming is expected.

Book Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (July, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849511241
• ISBN-13: 978-1849511247

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Book Description

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for the day-to-day administration of SharePoint 2010. Featuring easy-to-scan tables, step-by-step instructions, and handy lists, this book offers the streamlined, straightforward information you need to solve problems and get the job done-whether at your desk or in the field! Topics include deployment, site configuration, enterprise content management, search and indexing, workflows, shared service providers, information management policies, scalability, availability, security, logging and processing analysis, and backup and recovery.

About the Author

Ben Curry, CISSP, MCP, MCTS, is a Microsoft® MVP for SharePoint® Server and a network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. He develops custom SharePoint® solutions and has presented at TechEd and Dev Connections.

Book Details

• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (June, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735627223
• ISBN-13: 978-0735627222

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Book Description
Can Science and Religion Work Together, After All?

It’s time for science and religion to stop shouting at each other and start talking with each other. This book leads the way. It is the result of an extraordinary ongoing conversation among a group of highly respected scientists, physicians, philosophers, and theologians. Together, they share profound insights into the deepest questions humans ask and explore the invisible forces and powerful beliefs that shape our lives. Their insights reflect both humanity’s latest science and its most enduring wisdom. Their answers and questions will challenge you–and reward you with a richer understanding of who we are, what we share, and what it means.

What do we really know about human nature?
How do we see what we see, know what we know, feel what we feel?
How do people come to believe in God?
Where does empathy come from?
What can evolutionary psychology and neuroscience teach us about ethics?
What are the health benefits of faith?
Where do you end, and others begin?
What do marriage, family, and friendship mean?
How can people repair the broken connections that keep them lonely?

Who are we? What connects us to each other and to the universe? What makes human beings believe in their marriages, friends, families, societies, God?

Men and women have long sought to answer questions like these through religion. For centuries, they have been joined by scientists bringing increasingly powerful new methods and worldviews. Whether scientist or theologian, physician or philosopher, they share a quest: to understand the invisible forces and powerful beliefs that shape human life.

Today, these explorers have much to learn from each other. In the Chicago Social Brain Network, an interdisciplinary group of scholars have come together to exchange ideas across the boundaries that have divided science, religion, and philosophy for far too long.

This book invites you into their conversation and journey. Join them as they explore human nature and human connections: Discover what can be learned from evolutionary analyses and Plato, MRIs and the Gospel of Matthew.

• The social brain and the human journey
  Is humanity marching towards cooperation and social resilience?
• Why and how we connect
  Our invisible relationships with each other–and our search for trust and meaning
• “You and I” as one: mind and body, individual and society
  Human language, neuronal substrates, synchrony, and social coordination
• Belief, connection, and learning
  How human beings construct their private experiences of God

About the Author
The Chicago Social Brain Project is an ongoing network of more than a dozen scholars unbounded by disciplinary precincts, geographical borders, or methodological perspectives. The Network’s goal is to set aside the antagonisms that have grown up between science and humanities in order to explore diverse ways of seeing the world, and shed new light on the human mind. Its scholars hail from psychology, neurology, theology, statistics, philosophy, internal medicine, anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines. Network members interact constantly, and the entire Network convenes twice annually for a four-day retreat to discuss, critique, and learn from each others’ work.

eBook Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (October 18, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137075456
• ISBN-13: 978-0137075454

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Book Description

Educators use the Moodle web application to create effective online learning sites. Creating such learning environments that suit Design and Technology subjects requires understanding and implementation of both basic and advanced Moodle features.This book takes a detailed look at Moodle features with examples of how to fully support the Design and Technology curricula using Moodle. It will guide you to incorporate specific modules and blocks to enhance learning as well as allow detailed tracking of performance by using formative and summative assessment tools with ease.

We start with setting up a very basic Moodle course for Design and Technology, and then set up some basic resources and some interactive material. You will customize your own courses and create a course for each of the key areas of the DT subjects and add material to them. We will create some basic reporting and assessment tools and enhance the look of the course. We will use Moodle’s detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your student s ‘ learning progress in activities from an assignment to an offline activity. Then we will support students in designing a product or trying a new recipe in food technology in market research to find out exactly what the public wants in relation to their product, by designing a questionnaire. We will allow product design or resistant material students use the HTML features of the questionnaire module to incorporate images into the questions to make it clearer to respondents what it is they are trying to make and sell.

We will allow students in construction to gather and organize their research material in a great deal of detail and also allow them to better understand their target market and the materials used in their construction through detailed questioning. We will allow food technology students to discuss and receive constructive feedback on food products that contribute to health issues that will enable them to make informed decisions and therefore better quality products. Then we explore several components within Moodle’s core functionality and some third-party sources to display the progress of the student’s work and development. We then have an overview of the different design portfolios available. Finally we look at additional ways to enhance the teaching and learning of D & T with Moodle using third-party modules and add-ons.

A hands-on tutorial for Design and Technology teachers showing them how to use Moodle to compose their lessons and engage their students

Support and Enhance Food Technology, Product Design, Resistant Materials, Construction, and the Built Environment using Moodle VLE

• Customize your courses
• Create a course for each of the key areas of Design and Technology and add material to them
• Support and assess the progress of the students who are enrolled in the course
• Use Moodle’s detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your students’ learning progress in activities from assignments to offline activities
• Create Moodle resources for kinesthetic learners by using media-rich content such as videos and audio sequences

What you will learn from this book

• Help your students to set up and organize their own database for Materials research or a specific database for food technology using the standard database module in Moodle
• Display the progress of your students’ work and development with several Moodle components such as forums, blogs, galleries, wikis, and some third-party sources
• Allow students to store, organize, and share their work with each other by using Moodle Portfolios such as Exabis, MyStuff, and Mahara
• Design and create glossaries and add entries specifically for design and technology
• Allow students to map out their ideas using a basic interface to link and label items on the screen using an add-on called Mindmap
• Assess your students’ progress by designing quizzes that are conveniently linked to the students’ gradebook
• Design questionnaires and analyze their results and add feedback module and customize them to retain anonymity
• Give your students an opportunity to use Moodle to present their designs and ideas to a huge audience and gain invaluable feedback by using an interactive tool-DimDim
• Create a library of resources for students to interact with using applications such as myUdutu and add-ons such as Noodle
• Create a detailed framework with Moodle tools that allow you to chart students progress and offer them constructive feedback through reflective practice and achievable targets
• Create an electronic portfolio for Product design students that they can use to gather and organize their electronic materials

Approach
This book has real-world samples of how to solve problems related to Design and Technology and offers tips on how to enhance the use of Moodle to get the most out of the subject. Worked examples will act as a base from which to build complex and exciting courses for students in all age ranges and abilities.

Who this book is written for
If you are a Design & Technology teacher, teaching assistant, head of department, SMT, or IT technician in school and would like to use Moodle to design, create, or administer a VLE for Design and Technology, this book is for you. You need to know the basics of Moodle for teaching and learning and should have some experience with Design and Technology.

About the Author
A lifelong educator, Paul Taylor has always been involved in aspects of education and training in both companies and educational establishments. After working in the world of animation hardware for a small company in California in the 1990s and getting a company credit on Toy Story, Paul returned to the UK and to Education. The idea was to combine real-world computing experience with educational principles. This led to 9 years of teaching secondary school ICT and Business Studies; running a web design company with A Level students for their vocational qualification.

A return to teaching coincided with an introduction to Linux and open source and Paul was an early adopter of Moodle in late 2003. This led to dialog with various Moodle users and Partners and an eventual leading role with the UK’s oldest Moodle partner, Pteppic, in 2007.

eBook Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing; 1st New edition edition (June, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849511004
• ISBN-13: 978-1849511001

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Description

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises.

This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries.

You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

A focused tutorial for Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development

• Learn how Dynamics NAV ERP suite is set up and customized for various industries
• Integrate numerous parts of a company’s operations including financial reporting, sales, order management, inventory, and forecasting
• Develop complete applications and not just skeleton systems
• Covers the design and implementation of two new add-on services: The Squash application and the Storage & Logistics application
• Also usable for previous versions such as 3.x, 4.0, and 5.0
• Easy-to-read style, packed with hard-won practical advice
• Real-world examples with step-by-step explanations

What you will learn from this book

• Implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite with a sample industry application throughout the book
• Set up Dynamics NAV and customize it for various industries including fashion, retail, and the automobile industry
• Get to grips with key Dynamics NAV features such as Inventory Valuation, Item Tracking, and Reservations
• Learn about B2B and B2C Interfacing and the fundamentals of Application Design
• Learn and customize application features designed by Microsoft such as Financial Management, CRM, Manufacturing, Distribution / Wholesale, and Retail and extend them safely
• Design your applications to have a good balance between cost of ownership and functionality
• Analyze operation data based on sales demographics using Dynamics NAV CRM
• Extend your core applications using interfaces such as Flatfile, CSV, XMLports, ADO, EDI standards, and web services

Approach
This book is a tutorial in an easy-to-read style. It will show Dynamics NAV developers how to create applications of different kinds with sufficient examples throughout.

Who this book is written for
IIf you are a NAV consultant and developer, or designer of business applications you will benefit most from this book.

The book assumes that you have a basic understanding of business management systems and application development, with a working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

About the Author
Mark Brummel is an all-round Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialist. He started in 1997 as an end user but quickly moved to the other side of the table. For ten years he has worked for resellers where designing and maintaining add-on systems was his specialization. Some of these add-on systems exceed the standard product when it comes to size and complexity. He has also been coaching colleagues and troubleshooting ‘impossible’ problems as a part of day-to-day work. Mark has trained most of the experienced NAV developers for the NAV 2009 product in The Netherlands and Belgium and he has been hired by almost every NAV reseller in the Benelux.

Mark works as a freelancer. His main focus area is to help out end users in implementations all over the world.

Mark was the first world wide to use the NAV 2009 (CTP3) product in a production system feeding back valuable information to Microsoft. Today, he is still involved in projects to provide input for future versions and test new CTP releases.

A special project has been performance tuning of the Dynamics NAV product on SQL Server. From 2007 to 2009, he was involved in the development of the ‘SQL Perform Tools’ as business partner of SQL Perform Benelux. As a unique specialist, he has done break through research in improving the performance of Dynamics NAV on SQL Server.

In his spare time, Mark maintains his blog on brummelds.com. This blog contains a wide range of articles about both the Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Server product. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and a writer for independent Dynamics NAV websites and user groups. In 2006, Mark was rewarded by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional award for his contribution to the online and offline communities. In 2007 and 2009 he also reviewed “Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV” and “Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009″.

eBook Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (June, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849680965
• ISBN-13: 978-1849680967



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Product Description

The All-New, Up-to-the-Minute Guide to Facebook® Marketing: Better Techniques, Better Results!

In this completely revised book, top Facebook marketer Justin R. Levy shows how to use Facebook to attract more customers and earn more profits. This isn’t hype: It’s actionable information based on the real experiences of companies and individuals who have used Facebook to supercharge their businesses and careers. Levy covers it all, from the absolute basics to attracting visitors and building your community. You’ll discover the latest tools and Facebook Apps–and new best practices for everything from search to privacy. Packed with real case studies, this is the only Facebook business guide you need: your fast, complete blueprint for success.

Coverage includes

• Learning from the pioneers and avoiding beginner’s mistakes
• Developing a winning Facebook marketing strategy
• Establishing a presence that starts working fast and grows with you
• Designing Facebook ads that drive more clickthroughs at lower cost
• Using Facebook Connect and Live Stream Box to reach customers outside Facebook
• Monitoring what customers are saying about you in real-time
• Communicating more powerfully with widgets and Apps
• Addressing privacy concerns
• Building communities that promote loyalty and innovation
• Using Sweepstakes and other traffic builders
• Mastering advanced Facebook marketing tips, tricks, and hacks
• Preparing for the future of Facebook

About the Author

Justin R. Levy is Director of Business Development, Marketing, and Client Relations at New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency that helps large and mid-sized businesses drive business value through the use of social media, blogs, community platforms, and other new online tools. Levy’s clients include Sony, Microsoft, Citrix Online, Pearson Education, SAS, and Molson Coors. Levy is also partner and general manager of Caminito Argentinean Steakhouse, a traditional steakhouse that has successfully used social media to drive sales, create community, and develop thought leadership. Contact Justin at http://justinrlevy.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Que; 2 edition (May, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789743213
• ISBN-13: 978-0789743213

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Need answers quickly? Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Includes
Workshops
ACE Exam Objectives
More than 600 Essential Dreamweaver CS5 Tasks

Inside the Book
• Understand and use the latest web technologies to create sites
• Choose the right site structure and layout for sites
• Create and use web page templates to quickly create pages
• Use the simplified site setup to create and work with sites
• Use Live view to design your web pages under real-world conditions
• Create and maintain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Use coding tools to develop consistent and reusable code
• Insert Adobe Photoshop files to create image Smart Objects
• Manage collaboration with multiple developers
• Use Subversion to manage different site versions
• Manage local, remote, and testing sites
• Transfer, synchronize, and validate sites

Bonus Online Content
Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to:
• Workshops and related files
• Keyboard shortcuts

From the Back Cover
Need answers quickly? Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Includes
Workshops
ACE Exam Objectives
More than 600 Essential Dreamweaver CS5 Tasks

Inside the Book
• Understand and use the latest web technologies to create sites
• Choose the right site structure and layout for sites
• Create and use web page templates to quickly create pages
• Use the simplified site setup to create and work with sites
• Use Live view to design your web pages under real-world conditions
• Create and maintain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Use coding tools to develop consistent and reusable code
• Insert Adobe Photoshop files to create image Smart Objects
• Manage collaboration with multiple developers
• Use Subversion to manage different site versions
• Manage local, remote, and testing sites
• Transfer, synchronize, and validate sites

Bonus Online Content
Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to:
• Workshops and related files
• Keyboard shortcuts

About the Author
Steve Johnson has written more than 20 books on a variety of computer software, including Microsoft Office XP, Windows XP, and Macromedia Director MX and Fireworks. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve founded Perspection, Inc., a software training company committed to providing performance-based training to help people effectively and efficiently use computer technology. Since 1991, Perspection has written more than 100 computer books that have sold more than five million copies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (May 13, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789744449
• ISBN-13: 978-0789744449

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Facebook’s popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 400 million people to this combination online village green, personal website creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won’t get when signing up is a printed manual. Enter Facebook: The Missing Manual, Second Edition — the witty, authoritative guide you need, now revised and updated to include all of Facebook’s latest features.

Coverage includes:

• Getting started, getting connected. Signing up is easy, but the real payoff comes when you tap into networks of coworkers, classmates, and friends. This book explains it all-including how to pick and choose who gets to see what, and how to steer clear of people you want to avoid.
• Adding applications. Ranging from silly (fortune cookies and video games) to serious (goal tracking), thousands of mini-programs can transform your Facebook account into an addictive, one-stop resource. Learn how to find and install your favorites.
• Facebook for grownups and businesspeople. Facebook isn’t just for Junior anymore. Thousands of companies and business professionals use the site for everything from project collaboration and advertising to filling (and finding) jobs. This book is written for adults of all ages.
• Protecting your privacy. Creeps are everywhere online, but on Facebook you can feel especially exposed with so much personal info on display. This book offers an easy-to-follow, multi-pronged approach to staying safe.

About the Author
E.A. Vander Veer has authored or edited more than 15 computer books, covering everything from Excel basics to JavaScript and XML. Her work has appeared in dozens of online and print publications, including Byte, The Writer, Salon, and CNN.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Pogue Press; 2 edition (April 13, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 144938014X
• ISBN-13: 978-1449380144

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Product Description

In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you’re an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue’s Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.

Windows 7 fixes many of Vista’s most painful shortcomings. It’s speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features, including better organization tools, easier WiFi connections and home networking setup, and even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware.

With this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Navigate the desktop, including the fast and powerful search function
• Take advantage of Window’s apps and gadgets, and tap into 40 free programs
• Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8, and learn the email, chat, and videoconferencing programs
• Record TV and radio, display photos, play music, and record any of these to DVD using the Media Center
• Use your printer, fax, laptop, tablet PC, or smartphone with Windows 7
• Beef up your system and back up your files
• Collaborate and share documents and other files by setting up a workgroup network

About the Author

David Pogue, Yale ‘85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world’s bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 904 pages
• Publisher: Pogue Press; 1 edition (March 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596806396
• ISBN-13: 978-0596806392

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