Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide

The way has been paved by the tech-savvy and resource-rich, but any library or librarian can successfully create and syndicate a blog today. In this readable book, author, Internet trainer, and blogger Michael P. Sauers, M.L.S., shows how blogging and RSS technology can be easily and effectively used in the context of a library community. Sauers showcases interesting and useful blogs, shares insights from librarian bloggers, and offers step-by-step instructions for creating, publishing, and syndicating a blog using free Web-based services, software, RSS feeds, and aggregators.

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Learning Joomla! Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP

If
you're a PHP programmer eager to create extensions for Joomla!, this
book is for you. Written for Joomla! 1.5, it gets you coding your first
extensions as quickly as possible, and adds features that will make
your work look professional! The world's hottest open-source content
management system, Joomla! won the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize. Already
feature packed, it is also extremely extensible, allowing multiple
complex applications to be cleanly integrated, inheriting the look and
feel of one Joomla! site, with only one database, template, and core to
maintain. This practical tutorial is based around the development of
example extensions to create, find, promote, and cross-link restaurant
reviews. Each chapter is a step-by-step walkthrough, covering modules,
components, and plugins as well as configuration and packaging for
distribution. Readers need basic PHP skills and familiarity with the
general operation of Joomla! but do not need experience of developing
Joomla! extensions.

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Web Publishing with Acrobat/PDF

Although the World Wide Web is enjoying enormous growth rates, many Web publishers have discovered that HTML is not up to the requirements of modern corporate communication. For them, Adobe Acrobat offers a wealth of design possibilities. The close integration of Acrobat in the World Wide Web unites the structural advantages of HTML with the comprehensive layout possibilities of Portable Document Format (PDF). On the basis of practical examples and numerous tricks, this book describes how to produce PDF documents efficiently. Numerous tips on integrating Acrobat into CGI, JavaScript, VBScript, Active Server Pages, search engines, and so on make the book a mine of information for all designers and administrators of Web sites.

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