Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

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Ajax is taking us into the next generation of web applications. Ajax has broken the client-server barrier by decoupling the client from the server, but an Ajax application still needs a server to extract content from. The most effective use of Ajax and the server requires an understanding of REST, an architectural style used to define Web services.

Ajax Patterns and Best Practices explores dynamic web applications that combine Ajax and REST as a single solution. A major advantage of REST is that like Ajax, it can be used with today’s existing technologies.

This is an ideal book whether or not you have already created an Ajax application. Because the book outlines various patterns and best practices, you can quickly check and verify that you’re building an efficient Ajax application.

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Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.

Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.

Drupal’s power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes you from initial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.

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Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser is a book about general principles of good programming practice for complete novices. The target reader is likely a twelve or thirteen year old, who is just starting to get curious about what makes a computer work—or an office worker who has been using computer applications for years, and would like to spend some time delving deeper into what makes them tick. Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser will teach the basics of programming using JavaScript. The software used for teaching programming will be JavaScript, which can be written using any text editor, and displayed in almost any Web browser, regardless of operating system. Despite the unfortunate word “script” in the language name, in actuality JavaScript is a modern programming language. While displaying the results of running JavaScript programs in Web pages will be used to motivate readers—a simple example is changing text when the user moves the mouse over it in a Web page—very emphatically, this is not a book about programming JavaScript.

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Ajax, the popular term for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is one of the most important combinations of technologies for web developers to know these days. With its rich grouping of technologies, Ajax developers can create interactive web applications with XML-based web services, using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server
response.

Taking complete advantage of Ajax, however, requires something more than your typical “how-to” book. What it calls for is Ajax Hacks from O’Reilly. This valuable guide provides direct, hands-on solutions that take the mystery out of Ajax’s many capabilities. Each hack represents a clever way to accomplish a specific task, saving you countless hours of searching for the right answer.

A smart collection of 80 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks covers all of the technology’s finer points. Want to build next-generation web applications today? This book can show you how. Among the multitude of topics addressed, it shows you techniques for:

• Using Ajax with Google Maps and Yahoo Maps
• Displaying Weather.com data
• Scraping stock quotes
• Fetching postal codes
• Building web forms with auto-complete functionality

Ajax Hacks also features a number of advanced hacks for accelerated web developers. Discover how to create huge, maintainable bookmarklets, how to use client-side storage for Ajax applications, and how to call a built-in Java object from JavaScript using Ajax. The book even addresses best practices for testing Ajax applications and improving maintenance, performance, and reliability for JavaScript code.

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In this instant-communication world, buzz means business! And one of the greatest ways to get customers and potential customers buzzing about your business is with a Web log, commonly called a blog. Blogs can help you:

Introduce the people behind your businessDiscuss relevant issuesProvide a clearinghouse for information and expertiseShow your business as a good corporate citizenSupport an exchange of ideasGet honest feedback from your customersAffect public opinion

If you�re new to blogging, or if you know the mechanics of a blog but want some help refining and targeting yours, Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies will get you going right away. An expert blogger shows you the ins and outs of putting together a professional-looking blog, walks you through the jargon, helps you decide what your blog should do, and even explains various software solutions. You�ll find out how to:

Set up and maintain a blog, write in blogging style, and observe blogging etiquetteDefine your audience and target your blog to reach themInvolve your customers, earn their trust, educate the public, and build communityAvoid possible legal pitfalls while keeping your blog interestingEncourage contributions and links to your blogUse images and design an eye-catching formatOptimize your blog for top search engine ratings, track your results, and measure your success.

Written by Susannah Gardner, who has taught online journalism, directed multimedia efforts, and provided custom.Web solutions to clients, Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies even shares tips from the experts who establish and maintain some of the top-rated business blogs. You�ll discover the secrets of success, how to spot and solve problems, what software can enhance your blogging life, and a whole lot more. It like having a staff of experts on call!

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Preface Preface Welcome to PHP! This book has been written to be as comprehensive and as accessible as a book on PHP can be. It puts the power of PHP to work for you, pushing the envelope as far as it can go. The best way to learn any topic like PHP is by example, and this is an example-oriented book. You ll find dozens of tested examples here, ready to go to work. PHP is quickly gaining popularity these days. Web page authors are requiring more and more power, and PHP is the answer. Not content to simply handle web pages in browsers any more, people are turning to the server side to do things you just can t do in a browser. Using PHP, you have total control over your web applications and the good part is that they re not any harder to write than a typical web page. PHP is an amazing package, and you re getting into it at the right time, when the excitement level is soaring. You ll see more PHP here than in any similar book, doing things you won t see other places, such as drawing images on-the-fly on the server and then sending them back to the browser. Who Should Read This Book? This book is for you if you truly want to develop all the power of web applications. If you want to start using cookies instead of just having your browser accept them, if you want to handle buttons, text fields, check boxes and more in your web pages, if you want to track users with sessions, or if you want to connect to a database on the server, then look no further. This book lets you take control of the server side of things. In addition, this book is specially written so that you don t need a lot of
experience to use it. The only real requirement for this book is familiarity with HTML. You don t need to be an HTML expert, but you ll need to know some.

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Using today’s new Web services platform, you can build services that are secure, reliable, efficient at handling transactions, and well suited to your evolving service-oriented architecture. What’s more, you can do all that without compromising the simplicity or interoperability that made Web services so attractive. Now, for the first time, the experts who helped define and architect this platform show you exactly how to make the most of it.

Unlike other books, Web Services Platform Architecture covers the entire platform. The authors illuminate every specification that’s ready for practical use, covering messaging, metadata, security, discovery, quality of service, business-process modeling, and more. Drawing on realistic examples and case studies, they present a powerfully coherent view of how all these specifications fit together�and how to combine them to solve real-world problems.

Service orientation: Clarifying the business and technical value propositions
Web services messaging framework: Using SOAP and WS-Addressing to deliver Web services messages WSDL: Documenting messages and supporting diverse message interactions WS-Policy: Building services that specify their requirements and capabilities, and how to interface with them UDDI: Aggregating metadata and making it easily available WS-MetadataExchange: Bootstrapping efficient, customized communication between Web servicesWS-Reliable Messaging: Ensuring message delivery across unreliable networks Transactions: Defining reliable interactions with WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-BusinessActivity Security: Understanding the roles of WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation BPEL: Modeling and executing business processes as service compositions Web Services Platform Architecture gives you an insider’s view of the platform that will change the way you deliver applications. Whether you’re an architect, developer, technical manager, or consultant, you’ll find it indispensable.

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Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again.
For anyone who wants to create an engaging web site–for either personal or
business purposes–Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual demystifies
the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing
a professional and reliable Web presence.

Like every Missing Manual, you can count on Creating Web Sites: The Missing
Manual to be entertaining and insightful and complete with all the vital
information, clear-headed advice, and detailed instructions you need to master
the task at hand. Author Matthew MacDonald teaches you the fundamentals of creating,
maintaining, and updating an effective, attractive, and visitor-friendly web
site–from scratch or from an existing site that’s a little too simple and flat
for your liking.

Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual doesn’t only cover how to create
a well-designed, appealing, smart web site that is thoroughly up to date and
brimming with the latest features. It also covers why it’s worth the effort
by explaining the rationale for creating a site in the first place and discussing
what makes a given web site particularly aesthetic, dynamic, and powerful. It
further helps you determine your needs and goals and make well informed design
and content decisions.

Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual includes a basic primer on HTML,
working with JavaScript, and incorporating services like Paypal’s shopping cart,
Amazon’s associate program, and Google AdSense and AdWords. It delivers advanced
tricks for formatting, graphics, audio and video, as well as Flash animation
and dynamic content. And you’ll learn how to identify and connect with your
site’s audience through forms, forums, meta tags, and search engines.
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Web and Information Security consists of a collection of chapters written by leading experts in the field that describe state-of-the-art topics pertaining to Web and information systems security. In particular, security for the semantic Web, privacy, security policy management and emerging topics such as secure semantic grids and secure multimedia systems are also discussed. As well as covering basic concepts of Web and information system security, this book provides new insights into the semantic Web field and its related security challenges. Web and Information Security is valuable as a reference book for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in information security which have special focuses on Web security. It is also useful for technologists, researchers, managers and developers who want to know more about emerging security technologies.
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