Drupal is the premier open source content management system available. It is used for high profile sites such as TheOnion.com and has been deployed by organizations such as NASA. Utilizing Drupal, you can create your own personal blog, a community driven site like Slashdot, or any other content oriented web site you can imagine. Building upon the success of the first edition, this second edition is updated completely to cover the newest version of Drupal, version 6. Pro Drupal Development is a book geared to professionals that need to deploy and customize Drupal. This book delves deep into the internals of the Drupal system and teaches the reader everything they will need to know to deploy a highly customized and optimized Drupal installation. Every web developer looking to deploy web sites quickly to their clients while still being able to harness the power of an excellent content management system needs this book.

Whether youre looking to show off your digital photos or launch your own blog, Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 3^rd Edition delivers all the know-how you need to create Web pages for any need. It demystifies technical topics like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, gives you the lowdown on adding sound and video to a page, and shows you how to put the latest versions of Dreamweaver and Flash to work.

These nine minibooks show you the easy way to create great-looking pages with all the bells and whistles. Theyre completely revised and updated to cover new page design tools and trends. Three all-new minibooks show you how to use Microsofts new Expressions Web tool to build simple but dazzling pages at online services such as Google Pages, MySpace, and eBay. Youll also learn how to tweak a sites look and feel with Cascading Style Sheets. Discover how to:

• Create user-friendly page designs
  
  
• Build a blog or photo page
  
  
• Fine-tune your firewall
  
  
• Fine-tune pages with HTML or CSS
  
  
• Spice up your pages with video and animation
  
  
• Use templates to save time and frustration
  
  
• Reduce exposure by controlling user tasks
  
  
• Create interactive features such as clickable images
  
  
• Generate sophisticated graphic effects and movies with FlashDiscover
  
  

So what are you waiting for? Get Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 3^rd Edition and start smartening up your Web pages now!
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Five years have passed, and the magazine has changed. A small, obscure lists blog has evolved into a professional publication with a publishing policy, editorial plans, in-house style guide as well as a dedicated team of experienced authors, research assistants, advisory board experts, editors and proofreaders.

Smashing Magazine is a dedicated, passionate team, but it is also you - you and every single reader who have been reading Smashing Magazine for all those years. Thank you for being with us, we could not exist without you.

This eBook is our humble gift to you for your support, criticism and encouragement over all these years. It contains the best - most useful, most interesting or most inspiring - articles that have been published on Smashing Magazine over the last five years. They have been carefully edited, proofread and updated for your convenience and a pleasing reading experience.

Based on the authors popular tumbler blog stuffhipstershate, which has been called Depressingly astute by the The New Yorker and Wickedly funny by The Frisky, comes the ultimate book on hipsterdom. From the dive bars of Brooklyns Williamsburg to the dirty alleys of San Franciscos Mission, the urban hipster has redefined American cool with a sighing disdain for everything mainstream. Hipsters are easily identified by their worn-out shoes, fixies and PBR tallboys, but until now no one had investigated beyond the hipster look to the even more hilarious hipster psyche.

With personally researched articles, revealing illustrations and helpful charts and graphs, Stuff Hipsters Hate exposes the bottomless well of impassioned scorn that motivates the ever-apathetic hipster, including: MATING AND SOCIAL HATES (buying you a drink / monogamy / texting back in a timely fashion), APPAREL AND GROOMING HATES (high heels / muscles / being asked about their tattoos) and WORK AND LIFE HATES (full-time jobs / knowing their bank balance / enthusiasm).´´

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and youll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 220 Office 2007 tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including:

In this fully updated second edition of his popular 2006 book, author, internet trainer, and blogger Michael P. Sauers shows how blogging and RSS technology can be easily and successfully used by libraries and librarians. Sauers provides a wealth of useful examples and insights from librarian bloggers and provides easy-to-follow instructions for creating, publishing, and syndicating a blog using free Web-based services, software, RSS feeds, and aggregators.

The second edition covers new blogging tools and services, introduces numerous useful library blogs and bloggers, and includes a new chapter on micro-blogging with Twitter. Blogging & RSS is a must-read for librarians, library managers, administrators, tech staff, and anyone interested in utilizing blogs and RSS in a library setting.´´

LEGO Mindstorms NXT is the most popular robot on the market. James Kelly is the author of the most popular blog on NXT (http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/) with over 30,000 hits a month. The NXT-G visual programming language for the NXT robot is completely new and there are currently no books available on the subject. There is an extremely limited amount of information in the HTML help files included with the software. 

This book covers all of the basic, intermediate, and advanced programming blocks that are standard with the NXT-G language suite. The book uses simple, non-technical terminology with plenty of screenshots and line drawings to demonstrate proper use of all the blocks as well as basic programming techniques such as loops, If-Then statements, case statements, and use of variables.