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Sams Teach Yourself Google Analytics™ in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use Google Analytics to accurately measure your website’s performance–and improve it!

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly create a Google Analytics account and add Google Analytics to your site
• Define goals and measure how well your site is achieving them
• Track visitors from search engines, pay-per-click advertising, email, and other sources
• Discover the pages your visitors view, how long they stay, and where they exit
• Monitor specific user actions, such as playing embedded video, selecting Flash menu items, or downloading files
• Identify your best and worst content, and fix poorly performing pages
• Improve your site by tracking error pages and broken links
• Measure AdWords traffic, position, and e-commerce performance
• Manage Google Analytics through the Dashboard
• Customize Google Analytics to work more effectively with your site
• Capture more accurate information by filtering out internal traffic
• Choose the right reports and data, understand them, and act on what you learn

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes

Chuck Tomasi

Kreg Steppe

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to build great blogs with WordPress and WordPress.org, and reach any audience by web browser, RSS, or cell phone!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

Plain English definitions explain new terms

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly build free blogs with WordPress.com
• Customize your blog to fit your message
• Create powerful text, audio, and video content
• Moderate comments and build communities
• Set up RSS feeds
• Host your own blog with WordPress.org software
• Deliver content via iPhone and BlackBerry
• Streamline publishing with third-party tools

Register your book at informit.com/register for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

Category:  Internet

Covers:  WordPress 3.0

User Level:  Beginning

Sams Teach Yourself Tumblr® in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use Tumblr to create a blog for sharing tweets, links, text, media, email, anything! Each compact lesson zeroes in on essential techniques, with fast, step-by-step instructions that help you do it right the first time!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

This Wrox Blox is for .NET developers who already have experience developing web applications with ASP.NET MVC and want to learn the new features introduced in the new release of ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC 2 has been built with the goal to increase productivity and make ASP.NET MVC ready for enterprise development. This Wrox Blox guides the reader through the new features by explaining how to use data scaffolding and automatic validation, how to write custom validators, how to create multi-area projects, and how and when to use async controllers. It also covers the new automatic HTML Encoding feature introduced in ASP.NET 4 and how it helps increasing the security of ASP.NET MVC web applications. In addition, it provides examples built both with Visual Studio 2010 and with the still supported Visual Studio 2008.

Table of Contents

Introducing ASP.NET MVC 2 1
Runs on Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 2

Templated Helpers and Model Metadata 2
HiddenInputAttribute 5
How to Write Custom Templates 7
Validation 8
Client-Side Validation 10
Custom Validation Rules 10

Areas 15

Asynchronous Controllers 18
Why Asynchronous Operations Matter 18
The Anatomy of an Asynchronous Controller 18
How to Implement an Async Controller 19
When to Use an Async Controller 21

RenderAction and Child Actions 22

Strongly Typed UI Helpers 24

Enhancements to ModelBinders 25
Default Value 25
Increasing Security with HTTPS 26
Avoiding the JSON Array Attack 26
Short Notation for AcceptVerbs Attribute 27
Overriding the HTTP Verb 27
Binary Binding 28

Automatic HTML-Encoding 29

Enhanced Visual Studio Tooling 30

Summary 31

About Simone Chiaretta 32

Book Details

* Paperback: 35 pages
* Publisher: Wrox (May, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-13: 978-0470767481

* File Size: 9.4 MiB

In Detail

Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System (CMS). Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

Drupal employs a specialized templating system and supports themes, which allow you to change the look and feel of the system's front and back-end interfaces.

Drupal 6 Themes is an ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 6. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal 6 website, this book is for you. This book is a revised, updated and expanded edition of Drupal 5 Themes, written specifically for Drupal 6. The book will show you techniques and tools to help you improve the look and feel of any Drupal 6-powered website.

Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. You will find out about tools to make your theme development easier, and also find invaluable information about under-documented elements of the theming system.

What you will learn from this book?

• Learn about the Drupal 6 Theming Architecture
• Find and install new themes
• Get the most from Drupal's theme configuration system
• Create a new theme from scratch
• Master PHPTemplate
• Modify the default templates and styles
• Override the default templates with your own
• Create dynamic styling which responds to the content or the user
• Discover tools that make theming easier and more efficient

Approach

This book helps you understand the logic behind the theming system employed in Drupal, and how to make it work for you. You will learn key concepts and work through examples with careful, step-by-step instructions.

Who this book is written for?

The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity - you don't need to know anything about theming in Drupal, although you should be familiar with the basic operation of the Drupal system.

Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 6 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.

Regardless of your technical skills, this book will teach you to design themes for your Drupal websites in the easiest way.

In Detail

Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System (CMS). Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

Drupal employs a specialized templating system and supports themes, which allow you to change the look and feel of the system's front and back-end interfaces.

Drupal 6 Themes is an ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 6. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal 6 website, this book is for you. This book is a revised, updated and expanded edition of Drupal 5 Themes, written specifically for Drupal 6. The book will show you techniques and tools to help you improve the look and feel of any Drupal 6-powered website.

Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. You will find out about tools to make your theme development easier, and also find invaluable information about under-documented elements of the theming system.

What you will learn from this book?

• Learn about the Drupal 6 Theming Architecture
• Find and install new themes
• Get the most from Drupal's theme configuration system
• Create a new theme from scratch
• Master PHPTemplate
• Modify the default templates and styles
• Override the default templates with your own
• Create dynamic styling which responds to the content or the user
• Discover tools that make theming easier and more efficient

Approach

This book helps you understand the logic behind the theming system employed in Drupal, and how to make it work for you. You will learn key concepts and work through examples with careful, step-by-step instructions.

Who this book is written for?

The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity - you don't need to know anything about theming in Drupal, although you should be familiar with the basic operation of the Drupal system.

Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 6 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.

Regardless of your technical skills, this book will teach you to design themes for your Drupal websites in the easiest way.

This Wrox Blox is for .NET developers who already have experience developing web applications with ASP.NET MVC and want to learn the new features introduced in the new release of ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC 2 has been built with the goal to increase productivity and make ASP.NET MVC ready for enterprise development. This Wrox Blox guides the reader through the new features by explaining how to use data scaffolding and automatic validation, how to write custom validators, how to create multi-area projects, and how and when to use async controllers. It also covers the new automatic HTML Encoding feature introduced in ASP.NET 4 and how it helps increasing the security of ASP.NET MVC web applications. In addition, it provides examples built both with Visual Studio 2010 and with the still supported Visual Studio 2008.

Table of Contents

Introducing ASP.NET MVC 2 1
Runs on Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 2

Templated Helpers and Model Metadata 2
HiddenInputAttribute 5
How to Write Custom Templates 7
Validation 8
Client-Side Validation 10
Custom Validation Rules 10

Areas 15

Asynchronous Controllers 18
Why Asynchronous Operations Matter 18
The Anatomy of an Asynchronous Controller 18
How to Implement an Async Controller 19
When to Use an Async Controller 21

RenderAction and Child Actions 22

Strongly Typed UI Helpers 24

Enhancements to ModelBinders 25
Default Value 25
Increasing Security with HTTPS 26
Avoiding the JSON Array Attack 26
Short Notation for AcceptVerbs Attribute 27
Overriding the HTTP Verb 27
Binary Binding 28

Automatic HTML-Encoding 29

Enhanced Visual Studio Tooling 30

Summary 31

About Simone Chiaretta 32

Book Details

* Paperback: 35 pages
* Publisher: Wrox (May, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-13: 978-0470767481

* File Size: 9.4 MiB

Sams Teach Yourself Tumblr® in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use Tumblr to create a blog for sharing tweets, links, text, media, email, anything! Each compact lesson zeroes in on essential techniques, with fast, step-by-step instructions that help you do it right the first time!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes

Chuck Tomasi

Kreg Steppe

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to build great blogs with WordPress and WordPress.org, and reach any audience by web browser, RSS, or cell phone!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

Plain English definitions explain new terms

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly build free blogs with WordPress.com
• Customize your blog to fit your message
• Create powerful text, audio, and video content
• Moderate comments and build communities
• Set up RSS feeds
• Host your own blog with WordPress.org software
• Deliver content via iPhone and BlackBerry
• Streamline publishing with third-party tools

Register your book at informit.com/register for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

Category:  Internet

Covers:  WordPress 3.0

User Level:  Beginning

Sams Teach Yourself Google Analytics™ in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use Google Analytics to accurately measure your website’s performance–and improve it!

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly create a Google Analytics account and add Google Analytics to your site
• Define goals and measure how well your site is achieving them
• Track visitors from search engines, pay-per-click advertising, email, and other sources
• Discover the pages your visitors view, how long they stay, and where they exit
• Monitor specific user actions, such as playing embedded video, selecting Flash menu items, or downloading files
• Identify your best and worst content, and fix poorly performing pages
• Improve your site by tracking error pages and broken links
• Measure AdWords traffic, position, and e-commerce performance
• Manage Google Analytics through the Dashboard
• Customize Google Analytics to work more effectively with your site
• Capture more accurate information by filtering out internal traffic
• Choose the right reports and data, understand them, and act on what you learn