LOOKING BACK at the evolution of computer languages, it seems every dozen years or so a new layer of abstraction is added. “Ones and zeros” leveled up into assembly instructions, which leveled up into compiled languages. Those compiled languages evolved and we used them to create web browsers. Web browsers digest languages like HTML, CSS, and javascript. Now we’re ready to level up again.

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. You concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details.

Tens of thousands of developers have used this award-winning book to learn Rails. It’s a broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference that’s recommended by the Rails core team. If you’re new to Rails, you’ll get step-by-step guidance. If you’re an experienced developer, this book will give you the comprehensive, insider information you need.

How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You’ll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis.

It’s the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this full color practical book, you’ll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting? How do they turn on mute, or know they have a new email message?

How can you tap into the wealth of social web data to discover who’s making connections with whom, what they’re talking about, and where they’re located? With this expanded and thoroughly revised edition, you’ll learn how to acquire, analyze, and summarize data from all corners of the social web, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, email, websites, and blogs.

Rethink the way you plan, design, and build Web applications—with expert guidance from Web development luminary Dino Esposito. Whether giving legacy sites a much-needed tune-up—or architecting rich Internet applications from the ground up—you’ll learn pragmatic approaches to AJAX development that you can employ today.

If you want to do plugin or theme development in PHP, or hand code posts, pages, and just about everything from scratch, then this is definitely not the book for you. This book is perfect for you if you are the sort of person who wants to build a great looking website quickly, without messing about with programming code. Using the techniques and tools shown in this book you will be able to build a well optimized, great looking website that does exactly what you want. You'll be able to create your own themes, and build your own website with confidence, all without touching a single line of code. If you want stunning results but are more confident typing a letter, than you are at writing lines of programming code, then buy this book.

PHP is a hugely popular language that powers the backend of 80% of websites, including Internet giants such as Facebook, Wikipedia and WordPress. It’s an easy language to learn and great for beginners, so you can get up and running fast!

Build HTML5-powered mobile web experiences with the aid of development frameworks that speed the development of Native App-like experiences. Build on your foundation of HTML and javascript with a complete understanding of the different mobile Web browser technologies. You get carefully detailed techniques that are illustrated in full color so you can leverage the Web technologies unique to each mobile browser, apply frameworks such as Sencha Touch to rapidly build out your designs, and design techniques expressly suited for tablet devices.

This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the language used to style and lay out all web pages. This book will quickly get you up to speed with the fundamentals of CSS and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.

Typography is everywhere. From a drive down the highway or shopping in a grocery store to surfing the web and navigating our PDAs, we are bombarded by words in a plethora of shapes, sizes, and arrangements. It is essential for designers to understand the basics of typography to optimise this communication

As a web user, you'll no doubt have noticed some of the breathtaking applications available in today's modern web, such as Google Maps and Flickrdesktop applications than the old style web sites you are used to. You've probably also wished that you could create such things, and then thought "nahhh, I'd need to know a lot of complicated code to be able to even start creating sites like these." Well, think again.

My Google Chromebook brings together all the expert advice and easy, step-by-step know-how you'll need to make the most of your new Google Chromebook -in no time! Chromebooks are laptop computers that are entirely based on Google Chrome OS, cloud-based OS that is a radical departure from traditional Windows and Mac OSes. Because of its web-based nature, using a Chromebook and the Chrome OS is quite a bit different from using a traditional notebook PC and Microsoft Windows. To get the most use out of your new Chromebook, you need to become familiar with how cloud computing works - as well as all the ins and outs of your new Chromebook. You'll find all that and more here!

Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security provides an understanding of what cloud computing really means, explores how disruptive it may become in the future, and examines its advantages and disadvantages. It gives business executives the knowledge necessary to make informed, educated decisions regarding cloud initiatives.

This book is a concise and clear introduction to the art of search engine optimization and marketing. It presents current website optimization strategies, discusses their pitfalls and builds the foundations for long term success. Readers will discover how to get their website listed on the major search engines quickly and for free, analyze and beat their competitors' strategies, increase their search engine rankings and boost the number and quality of visitors.

Irrespective of whether we use economic or societal metrics, the Internet is one of the most important technical infrastructures in existence today. It will be a catalyst for much of our innovation and prosperity in the future. A competitive Europe will require Internet connectivity and services beyond the capabilities offered by current technologies.

Today, it seems everyone-from multinational corporations to your kid's second-grade teacher-has a blog. They all have one, in part, because they have information they want to share with others-from customers and clients to neighbors and parents. But to actually build a good blog-to create a blog people want to read-takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking the right TypePad plan and working with domains to managing posts and building a community, creating a successful blog involves making critical decisions at each step. In this book by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you'll learn how to:

Creating useful and attractive web sites for today's audiences requires more javascript programming than ever before. javascript, however, isn't easy and staying up to date with recent trends makes it even harder. You need a way to integrate the latest technology into your web site without having to start from the beginning.

An updated edition of the national bestseller?now with a new introduction and a new chapter
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.

Designed to help experienced programmers develop real-world, job-role-specific skills—this Training Guide focuses on creating applications with HTML5, javascript, and CSS3. Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices—and help maximize your performance on the job.

javascript is the lifeblood of today’s web. If you’re going to learn one new language this year, make sure it’s javascript.

Take a quick peek under the hood of the largest social network giant or the smallest bedroom startup, and what will you find? javascript. Pages and pages of javascript. Twitter, Facebook, and Google are all living, breathing javascript beings. It’s the beating heart of the modern web!

WordPress makes it easy to manage your website, but how easily are you managing WordPress?
I've found that most people take to WordPress right away, yet there are lots of tricks, little-known functions, and workarounds that will help you save time, and avoid costly mistakes. And, it can take a long time to figure out these better ways of doing things, if ever.

"HTML, XHTML, & CSS For the Absolute Beginner" provides beginner level programmers with an entry level introduction to HTML, XHTML and CSS. This book serves as a primer for client-side web development. To make learning fun, the book uses a games-based instructional approach that provides working examples that demonstrate how HTML, XHTML and CSS can be applied to the development of web pages and sites. "HTML, XHTML, & CSS For the Absolute Beginner" is a fun and easy way for a beginner to master web development through the creation of computer games.