This is a short round-up for some of the events that will take place at DrupalCon Denver 2012. Stay tuned and sign up for the event you are interested in.

Developer Contest: Drupal and Twilio Join Forces for DrupalCon

As the cloud communication IaaS Twilio is often seen supporting the open source community, this year these guys decided to “join forces” with Drupal at DrupalCon Denver 2012.

What you have to do, is create a Drupal module with Twilio integration and submit your work here, by March 19. Submissions will further be reviewed by Drupal megaminds like lead developer of VoIP Drupal – Leo Burd and co-founder of ChapterThree – Matt Cheney.

The three best projects will be presented by their owners on stage at DrupalCon Denver 2012. But this is not just it! The best submissions will also be rewarded:

• Third place: Unique Twilio VIP swag
• Second place: Kindle Fire and Twilio T-shirt
• First Place: Macbook Air and Twilio track jacket.

If you don’t have a chance to attend DrupalCon Denver, you can still submit your project and if you get picked as a winner – receive a Kindle Fire.
More information about Twilio Developer Contest

Core Conversations at DrupalCon Denver

“Core conversations” is an event taking place at most of DrupalCon’s, and this year is no exception.

It is the contributors that keep the Drupal community alive and improve it greatly and Core Conversations’ main subject is talking about how you can help in doing that as well. Many of you are contributors, or would like to do that, so in this case this event is exactly where you should be.

You can present your own ideas and be a future contributor, or you could just give tips on how to improve the Drupal core – anything goes as long as you are willing to share.

All you have to do is gather your great ideas and submit a proposal as soon as possible.
Register for Core Conversations

“Drupal Means Business”

Moving a business online is utmost important today, as the Internet is covering more space than it did in earlier days, hence making sure you hit a certain target and extending it can be possible if you showcase what you do on the Big Web. This is a business strategy that cannot be ignored and knowing how to invest in it is crucial.

You can find the perfect solution for your business at DrupalCon Denver 2012 at the “Drupal Means Business” event that will take place on Thursday, March 22, 2012. It is the place to meet important Drupal businesses meaning great web development agencies and training companies that can offer you a solution to move your business online, or improve what you already have.

Be there to participate in case studies and learn about today’s best practices within the Drupal community. You will also have the chance to communicate with representatives from different business fields that have already found an advantageous Drupal solution and can share tips or insights with you.
More about Drupal Means Business

CXO – training Drupal business leaders

Some other good news for Drupal- related companies is the CxO event, taking place at DrupalCon Denver 2012, on March 19^th.  This one hour event will feature trainings in Marketing, Team Building and Finance, offering the chance for you to learn the best practices that you can adjust for your company.

The training will mostly take in place in the first part of the day; hence leaving the second part of the day dedicated to an open forum where the attendees of CxO will have the chance to mingle and interact, discussing the business challenges they meet and find ways to overcome them.

The event will finish with cocktails and discussions until late at night, so this event promises to deliver productive results and why not, new bonds.
More information about CxO

Responsive first: Design and Build a site for all devices

Being a developer needs lots of time to learn everything there is to be learned and master the code in order to get the best results in short time. Designing for desktop computers only, is old news already; hence responsive design is what comes next – being compatible with desktop widescreens, tablets and mobile devices.

DrupalCon Dever is one of the places where you can learn how to develop your own wireframes, CSS, content strategy and rich media content, all of this from the responsive web design approach.

Organized by the well-known web design company “Four Kitchens”, this training promises to deliver not only essential skills on the way to mastering responsive design, but also a fun environment to learn and meet other people with similar interests.

Each attendee will have access to a development site so that he can practice his skills there. It will stay live for 30 days after the training.
More info about the Responsive first training

To help you discover its power or learn some new tricks, we compiled this post containing a roundup of the best articles & tutorials related to jQuery written in the past 2 months.

How To Create An Image Slider Using Photoshop & JQuery

“In this web design tutorial, we will learn to create custom image slider above using Photoshop, which you can preview the final result from here. Not only will we illustrate it in Photoshop, we will also turn it into a functional design by converting it into HTML/CSS and adding jQuery for its awesome sliding effect…”
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Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery

“Today we want to show you how to create a simple blur effect for text-based items. The idea is to have a set of text boxes that will get blurred and scaled down once we hover over them…”
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How to Style iOS Sliding Checkboxes with jQuery

“This tutorial is a straightforward walkthrough about how to implement and work with these inputs. Through jQuery we can dynamically create a hidden input field which holds the checked/unchecked position of the slider bar…”
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Animate a Custom Dialog Box with CSS3 and jQuery

“In this short tutorial I’d like to go over the process of building a simple fade-in dialog box. This may contain a signup/login form, input buttons, or even just a message to your visitors…”
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How To Build A Slideout Feedback Form In jQuery

“In this article I am going to show you how you would create a slideout feedback form which using AJAX will send an email to your website admin email address with the feedback from the visitor…”
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Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck

“Thankfully, there are a few very simple things anyone can add into their jQuery workflow that can clear up a lot of basic problems…”
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How to Create a Showcase with jQuery

“This tutorial will show you how to create such a showcase by utilising jQuery. jQuery makes animation easy. This tutorial will guide you through the setting up of your HTML, CSS and the associated jQuery code to create the showcase…”
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Easy CSS3 & jQuery tooltips

“There’s no need to explain what a tooltip is and you already know that using tooltips can help you increase usability. Therefore, in this article we’ll concentrate just on the practical side…”
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Beautify Your jQuery Code Using beautify.js

“It can be very time consuming to make your jQuery code neat and tidy. Fortunately, there are online tools and heaps of plugins that can automate this task for us. I recently had the need to generate JavaScript/jQuery code dynamically and thus it comes through messy and unreadable…”
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Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery

“Today we will create a set of nice typography effects for big headlines using CSS3 and jQuery…”
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Useful jQuery Drop Down Menu Scripts

“The drop down menu is also called as the pull-down menu and it plays a major role in making a website more user-friendly and professional. Though there are various tabs used, the jQuery drop down menu makes the visitors to navigate easily in the websites…”
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10 awesome jQuery snippets

“In this article, I have compiled 10 jQuery snippets that will definitely help you in your daily client-side coding…”
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Here is the list of articles written in November 2011 we found interesting and useful. Get the most of them. Enjoy!

Web Design

The use of illustration in web design

“Illustration is an incredibly versatile tool that can find many different uses in design. And when it comes to web design we can find an extremely wide variety of implementations…”
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A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers

“From big platforms, such as WordPress, down to small scripts, such as ones to display image galleries or to send forms to email, thousands of script and products are out there written in PHP that can be installed and used even if you don’t know much about PHP yourself…”
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Create Five Awesome Hover Effects Using CSS Multiple Backgrounds

“Today we’re going to have all kinds of fun with the CSS multiple backgrounds feature. You’ll learn how to use multiple backgrounds in a simple way and how to go much further by combining the technique with hover actions…”
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Using Absolute Positioning in CSS

“Once you start to become more experienced with CSS, one concept that will help you greatly is use of the position property, in particular with a value of absolute…”
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Designing for the Web: Resolution and Size

“To a graphic designer who hasn’t ventured into web design, it can be a freaky place where suddenly our long used guidebook of print design goes out the window…”
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Cross-Browser CSS Development Workflow

“Most good developers by now accept the fact that pixel-perfect cross-browser CSS is not only unnecessary, but also totally impossible…”
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Animated Buttons with CSS3

“The idea is to create some animated link elements with different styles, hover effects and active states…”
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CSS3 Transforms: Adding 2D and 3D Effects To Web Pages

“Today I want to look at a set of more dynamic changes, namely transforms in CSS3, 2D and 3D…”
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How to Build a Responsive Frankenstein Framework With LESS

“Today we’re going to build an ultra-lightweight framework that can be implemented wherever and however you want to achieve complex multi-column layouts in seconds flat…”
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Screen readers and CSS

“A central idea of CSS is that it makes it possible to use correct semantics in the HTML layer while still being able to change the visual appearance of your document…”
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Web Design

Creating a PHP User Survey: Database Tables and Class File Constructor

“User surveys can be an extremely effective marketing tool for any business web site. Visitors can make their voices heard on what products, services and information they would like the site to provide…”
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Set Expire Headers In htaccess

“As Browsers are going to cache these bits of data you can actually set an expiry so the Browser will know not to cache these anymore…”
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Create a notched current-state nav

“Basically there are two main parts to this technique; the punching-the-hole-through-the-nav and the masking-the-hole-to-be-a-triangle. Both techniques couldn’t be simpler…”
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Bubble Point Tooltips with CSS3 & jQuery

“I needed some tooltips for a thing. In looking around for a little inspiration, I didn’t have to go further than my dock…”
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Create Super Cool Text Effect using CSS3 and Lettering.js

“In this post we will see how to achieve the title hover effect with a little help of lettering.js and CSS3 transition property…”
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Getting Started With jQuery: A Beginner’s Resource Guide

“jQuery is a free, fast, and concise JavaScript library that allows you to efficiently write cross-browser javascript code to make Ajax requests, animate elements, manipulate the DOM, and do a variety of user interface manipulations…”
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How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js

“The canvas element makes it possible to integrate drawings and animations with the rest of your page. You can combine them with text and make animations interactive…”
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Developing With The HTML5 Element

“It wasn’t until the release of HTML5 that web developers have had a lightweight solution to playing the video…”
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How To Make Forms More Usable With HTML5

“Forms are how we interact with websites. We use forms to contact site owners, login to applications, reply to comments and so much more…”
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jQuery Fancy Switch

“I’ve now put together a simple tutorial demonstrating how simple it is to build a switch that triggers two radio buttons in a field set. It also degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled just displaying the two radio buttons with labels…”
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DrupalCon Denver 2012 is just around the corner and now is the time to vote for your favorite sessions. Voting on sessions is open until November 14, 2011. Log in to the DrupalCon Denver 2012 website using your Drupal.org account details and vote for Propeople sessions.

The State of Drupal Business

In this session we will go trough the state of Drupal business, focusing on consulting, development & services. We will discuss topics like:

• Supply and Demand
• Comparison to other CMS Systems
• The Size of Companies
• Business Models & Strategy
• Mergers & Acquisitions

The state of Drupal business is no insignificant affair. Drupal has grown beyond a niche. Drupal becomes pervasive and it is transforming how people manage content & information.

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Building a community from scratch

This session will be a structured “how to” on building a community from scratch and bring in some insights how Drupal communities–local-, interest-, or vertical-based–are growing and changing. We are looking for insights into what is working, what needs more work and what best-practices are emerging.

This session is for you if you are interested in the nuts and bolts of community, running events, helping yourself and others get the most out of Drupal, or taking Drupal to the rest of the world and showing them what we’ve got!
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Drupal VS Sharepoint – or what to use when!?

By working with organizations that adopted both Drupal and/or SharePoint, I had on several occasions discussions about the differences between the two framework.

Beyond the functionality comparison I want to present typical cases and bring in some insights from the business perspective.

In order to have a realistic view on things I’ve merged the opinions of leading companies on both sides and evaluated their pro’s and contra’s on important points like licensing & support, features & integration, professional services, ecosystems & communities…
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SEO? Here comes Drupal! Site Builders and Information Architects, watch out!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps improving the volume and quality of traffic to your web site from search engines via “organic” search results…
…yes, we all know how to lookup Google and get some tips on which SEO modules to install and what the key SEO facts are…

But it’s not always clear how to set up a successful site architecture for optimal results.
Drupal offers by default a variety of benefits for search engine optimization. However, there are plenty of additional SEO modules, different configurations and architectural strategies for Drupal sites which can further improve the website presence in search results.
The more the information, the more the aspects you should take into account. Most of these aspects are covered by various Drupal modules.
The fourth version of the Drupal SEO session by Ivo Radulovski (Propeople), will provide you with such examples & use cases from the praxis.

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Make Drupal fly with Varnish Magic!

Having the experience of more than 250 developed projects we pledge that Drupal performance can be vastly improved according to the website’s goals. We want to show how we make Drupal fly!

In this session we plan to show two of our recent projects were where we accomplished a full integration between Drupal and Varnish in order to create the optimal
performance architecture.

The covered key topics include:

• Drupal setup for scalability.
• Integration between Varnish and Drupal
• Advanced varnish techniques
• ESI
• Optimize web pages to make them load faster.

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Here is the list of articles written in October 2011 we found interesting and useful. Get the most of them. Enjoy!

Web Design

How to Enhance Your User Targeting for the Mobile Web

“The goal for any web site should be to know your customers in order to deliver to them the most appropriate content…”
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7 Blog Design Tips from a Content Strategist

“As a content specialist, I prefer web designs that support content rather than conflict with or ignore it. Web designers should have a real appreciation of content strategy because it is crucial in launching a successful blog…”
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How To Keep Up To Date As A Designer

“In this world of lightening fast development, professionals can find it hard to keep themselves up-to-date with the latest. Similarly, some designers who wish to stay updated, just don’t really know how to go about it…”
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Create a Typography Based Blog Design in Photoshop

“The WordPress theme we’ll be creating this time is called Typo. It’s a design that’s entirely based on typography to allow the content to shine…”
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Five killer ways to break the grid

“The grid may be a key element of good web design but you can enhance it by breaking its own rules, says Matthew Smith…”
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How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website

“To build a mobile site or not to build a mobile site; this is a question at the forefront of many a discussion. There is, however, another option: responsive web design…”
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Improve your responsive design workflow with Sass

“Sass does not just help you maintain your style sheets. It can actually improve your responsive layout workflow and you don’t even have to worry about the maths…”
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Are You Solving Design Problems Or Forcing Solutions On Them?

“How many times have you been frustrated because you couldn’t make a specific css technique work? Did you spend hours searching for a solution?…”
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Be More Creative through Design Constraints

“For a lot of designers constraints are kryptonite or a barbed wire fence that is a prison for their design freedom. But design constraints shouldn’t be viewed as problems to be overcome, rather, constraints or restrictions are probably the best tool for creativity…”
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Do’s and don’ts of call to action pages

“Good call to action pages (including landing pages and sales pages) are an important part of any website that either sells or asks visitors to sign up for something…”
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How To Add Non-Textual Elements To A Baseline Grid

“The basic idea behind a baseline grid is to align elements along the vertical. Mostly this will be text and the baseline unit is the line-height of your text…”
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Web Development

Beginner’s Tutorial Coding Web Apps with jQuery Mobile

“The whole jQuery library has grown tremendously in the past couple of years. With open resources such as Git and Github web developers have been creating plugins for even richer effects…”
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Hoverizr – An in depth view of the jQuery plugin

“As a web designer, from time to time, you may need to make a grayscale image fade into color on mouse over…”
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What Is HTML? The Anatomy of an HTML5 Document

“Join us today as we move on and take a look at each basic piece of an HTML document. I’ll explain all that stuff at the top of an HTML file that confuses you and outline the basic structure that you’ll follow for creating your own HTML files…”
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What Is CSS? Back to Basics

“Cascading Styles Sheets, more commonly referred to as CSS, become the way to style content. Color choices, repeating background textures, shadows, rounded corners and even layout are all the area of CSS…”
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The Increasing Importance of APIs in Web Development

“Web APIs have experienced an exponential increase in popularity and usage in the past few years. These days, they’re an important tool for web developers…”
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How To Create a Cute Popup Bar With HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery

“Today we’ll be creating a bar that pops up at the top of a page, and stays above the content. The popup bar was only tested in Chrome and Safari…”
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A Call for ::nth-everything

“With CSS3, we have positional pseudo class selectors to help us select specific elements when there are no other distinguishing characteristics other than where it is in the DOM in relation to it’s siblings…”
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How To Backup Your WordPress Website

“Anyone who has had their website hacked or inadvertently changed something they shouldn’t have on their websites database, will know the importance of backing up your live websites on a regular basis…”
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7 Essential JavaScript Typography Resources

“Open source JavaScript libraries can help you craft responsive web designs (a technique that optimizes webpage layouts for mobile devices), implement fun text effects and more…”
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Creative CSS3 Animation Menus

” I’d like to show you some creative menu hover effects in today’s tutorial. The idea is to have a simple composition of elements, an icon, a main title and a secondary title, that will be animated on hover using only CSS transitions and animations…”
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In this article, we collected a roundup of tutorials, links, books and podcasts that we hope will be useful for both beginners and professionals in the business of ecommerce.

Articles & Tutorials

Build an ecommerce store with LemonStand (part 1)

“Freelance developer Phil Schalm talks us through the installation and setup of new PHP ecommerce platform LemonStand and explains the basics of building a theme…”
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Infographic: Shopping Cart Abandonment and Tips To Avoid It

“Shopping cart abandonment remains a major ecommerce concern…”
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5 Best Practices of Facebook eCommerce Stores

“Part of the reason that Facebook has outpaced MySpace as the largest, most important social networking site in the world is that Facebook has opened its doors to external programmers…”
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10 Absentee UX Features on Top e-Commerce Sites

“eCommerce sites are competing for customer attention and loyalty. The user experience features included in a site are the focal points for engaging customers, and can make or break the purchase process…”
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Why Magento is worth it… for some

“Magento is a powerful ecommerce system with a steep learning curve, aimed at larger ecommerce sites…”
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The three pillars of ecommerce design

“Actinic Software’s CEO Ben Dyer looks at a number of best practice tips and advice for ecommerce merchants, designers and implementers in the areas of the checkout, product pages and customer relations…”
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Psychological Manipulation in eCommerce Design

“Web designers and architects use an array of psychological tricks to manipulate users into specific behaviors. What can be learned from these tricks?…”
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eCommerce Lessons From Your Favorite Stores

“Now, nearly any person or business can buy or sell product online. In this article, we’ll examine what we can learn from observing our favorite stores in action to make the online experience better….”
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Ecommerce: Making the Most of Online Shopping Websites>

“Online retail is definitely here to stay but how can you get the most out of your ecommerce site?…”
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10 Ecommerce Design Tips for Increasing Conversions

“Here are ten tips on how you can turn visitors into customers and improve your conversion rates by employing simple design techniques…”
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Modern eCommerce Designs (2011)

“After looking around the web what sites caught our eye and which web-pages do we consider are the top 20 ecommerce sites on the web?…”
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Useful Tools & Services

WooCommerce for WordPress

Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred online store. Delivering enterprise-level quality & features whilst backed by a name you can trust.
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OpenCart CMS

A powerful open source shopping cart system that is designed feature rich and user friendly.
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CubeCart CMS

A complete ecommerce shopping cart software solution. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers globally.
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Drupal e-Commerce Module

The eCommerce project on Drupal.org. Compatible with Drupal 5 and 6.
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UberCart for Drupal

Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce shopping cart that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system.
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LiteCommerce

Lite-commerce is an open-source e-commerce solution that can work both like a Drupal 7 module and as a stand-alone web application.
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simpleCart(js)

A simple javascript shopping cart in under 20kb that you can setup in minutes. It’s lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable. All you need to know is basic HTML.
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Books

E-Commerce 2011 (7th edition)

This comprehensive, market-leading text emphasizes the three major driving forces behind E-commerce–technology change, business development, and social issues–to provide a coherent conceptual framework for understanding the field.
The seventh edition–including all of the data, figures, and tables in the book–has been updated with the latest marketing and business intelligence available from eMarketer, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Forrester Research, Jupiter Research, Gartner, and other industry sources.

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Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL

In this comprehensive guide to creating an e-commerce Web site using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through every step–designing the visual interface, creating the database, presenting content, generating an online catalog, managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment process, and fulfilling the order–always with security and best practices emphasized along the way. Even if you’re an experienced Web developer, you’re guaranteed to learn something new. The book uses two e-commerce site examples–one based on selling physical products that require shipping and delayed payment, and another that sells non-physical products to be purchased and delivered instantly–so you see the widest possible range of e-commerce scenarios.

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E-Business and E-Commerce Management: Strategy, Implementation and Practice

Popular for its cutting edge and contemporary coverage, its international approach and its balance of the technical and managerial topics of central importance to developing an understanding of this subject, this book is ideal for students or practitioners of e-business or e-commerce at any level.

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Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook

The secret to successful word-of-mouthmarketing on the social web is easy: BE LIKEABLE. A friend‘s recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook,Twitter, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther—and faster—than ever before. Likeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. Listen to your customers and prospects. Deliver value, excitement, and surprise. And most important, learn how to truly engage your customers and help them spread the word.

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E-Commerce Guide to SEO, Copywriting, and Social Media

Who Should Read This Book?
- Anyone looking to start an e-commerce site
- Anyone who is tired of overly technical articles and books on SEO, copy writing, social media, and e-commerce
- Anyone who wants to increase sales on their e-commerce site.
- Anyone who is looking to hire a professional to work on their e-commerce site. This book will teach you the questions to ask potential vendors so you won’t get burned.
- Anyone who has an interest in basic SEO, social media and e-commerce subjects

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Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

In addition to guiding readers through the creation of a complete, working website using sound enterprise development techniques, the authors take care to provide readers with a variety of alternative implementation solutions: for instance readers are shown how to accept payments from both PayPal and credit cards. The book has also been updated to reflect the latest development trends, showing readers how to upgrade their shopping cart using Ajax, integrate with Amazon’s Web services, and encourage customer feedback through cutting-edge interactive features.

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Podcasts

eCommerce

A collection of lectures on eCommerce by Hajrë Hyseni, Business School, University of Hertfordshire.
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Ecommerce Podcast : Hear from Ecommerce Experts and Learn How to Succeed in Online Retailing

Hear famous and succesful people talking about eCommerce.
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The eCommerce Minute Podcast

Got a minute? Listen every workday as Practical eCommerce offers a 60-second tip to improve your ecommerce business.
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Ecommerce Developer Interviews Podcast

Ecommerce Developer Interviews is a weekly feature that introduces you to some of ecommerce web developers brightest minds and most successful businesses.
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Practical eCommerce

Practical eCommerce provides podcast episodes featuring tips and tricks for online business owners and ecommerce developers, as well as interviews with prominent personalities in the ecommerce community.
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Here is the list of articles written in September 2011 we found interesting and useful. Get the most of them. Enjoy!

Web Design

How To UP YOUR GAME as a Web Designer

“Designers that make beautiful websites are everywhere. As a designer you need to demonstrate to your potential clients that not only do you create beautiful designs but your designs are carefully crafted marketing tools…”
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Developing Emphasis in Web Design

“Simply put, emphasis is creating a focal point that will grab the viewer’s/user’s eye. In web design, it is often referred to as ‘eye-direction’ and if you have ever designed a call to action you know all about emphasis…”
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Responsive Web Design Demystified

“Responsive web design is a hot topic these days, especially as websites need to adapt to the growing number of mobile devices with their relatively small screens…”
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Keys to Effective Web Design Proposals

“Being able to draft an effective proposal is an essential part of staying busy and keeping money coming in as a freelance designer…”
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JavaScript Design Patterns Deconstructed

“All sophisticated design patterns throw up the same fundamental question — is there a concrete advantage to using it…”
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Designing Websites to Increase Traffic and Conversion

” In this article I will disseminate the qualities that make a website bridge the gap between being visited frequently and one that makes the most out of the traffic that comes its way – ones that turn visitors into customers…”
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Design for Transcendence

“Transcendence is simply a word. We have a shared understanding of it, but the context that resonates with me is when design goes beyond ordinary limits…”
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Well Designed Threaded Comments Sections in Webpages

“Comments are an important part to any website community. Within the comments section visitors of your website may share their ideas, thoughts, and related links on topic with your content…”
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Graphics in Photoshop: 6 Beginner Tips for Web Designers

“Photoshop is an industry-standard tool used by both graphic designers and web designers. What follows are some simple tips to follow as you create graphics meant for use on websites…”
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Recycling and animating icons with CSS

“Thanks to the advent of CSS3 properties, we can take a step further, and using a few concise lines of code, transform base icon templates into new icons for future use…”
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Web Development

Design a Full HTML5/CSS3 Template Replica of Digg v3

“Social media junkies on the turn of the year 2004 surely remember Digg. It was the powerhouse of social news, all the techies would flock to Digg on a daily basis…”
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Health Tips for Web Developers

“Due to our online obsessions and related habits, we may be unknowingly affecting our personal health in ways that might not at first be obvious to us…”
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CSS Button Tutorial: How to Code Buttons in 5 Simple Steps

“One of the most frequent questions I get from CSS beginners is, “How do I create a button?” It’s a simple question with a complicated answer…”
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Create a zoomable user interface with CSS3

“With CSS3 transforms now supported in most major browsers, we have the delightful opportunity to create innovative layouts and interfaces. No longer are we shackled in our one-dimensional prisons, bound to the tyranny of vertically-scrolling sites…”
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How Do Browsers Render the Different CSS Border Style Values?

“I thought it would be interesting to screen capture how all the different browsers display all the different values for border-style…”
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Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel

“Today we want to show you how to create a responsive image gallery with a thumbnail carousel using Elastislide…”
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Organize Your Code with RequireJS

“Writing web applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS can become overwhelming quickly. Between managing UI, data, interactions, and network requests, application code can become a real mess…”
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Building prototypes in HTML and CSS

“Prototyping tools can be restrictive and it’s becoming more important that designers know how to code up their concepts, so Leisa Reichelt organised a workshop teaching how to build prototypes in HTML and CSS…”
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Few Words on CSS3 Transitions and Animations

“CSS3 has made the web a much more dynamic place with support for transitions and animations…”
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How to Embed Video Using HTML5

“So how do you embed video on a Web page using HTML5 syntax? It’s simple…”
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You certainly need to get ready for this massive shift. In this roundup, we collected the best recent articles, tutorials, tools, books and podcasts about mobile web design & web app development. Enjoy!

Articles & Tutorials

How to Create a Responsive Portfolio Site with WordPress and Semantic.gs

“For the purposes of this tutorial, you have decided to make the simplest portfolio ever. It consists of three main section…”
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5 Services To Convert Websites For Mobile Devices

“The rise of the mobile is undeniable. Many even say that the future of the web lies on mobile devices. Gone were the days when people can only access the internet at home or in their office…”
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When & How You Should Update Your Mobile App

“Figuring out how and when to update a mobile app is a crucial part of the mobile app development process. Mobile apps are very different from traditional desktop software apps…”
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The Future of Mobile Marketing with Smartphones

“As the technology for mobile devices grows, so does the opportunity for development. Many companies are not creating their own apps, but instead utilizing HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 to aid in the creation of web apps and mobile websites…”
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Mobile development with HTML5

“If you read blogs that are even slightly related to tech, you likely hear about HTML5 on a near-weekly basis. Although the new web standard does not do your laundry, it has features that enable the creation of powerful applications…”
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5 WordPress Mobile Plugins to Create Mobile Theme

“If you are running WordPress site and want to convert it into mobile friendly site, you can easily setup a rich WordPress mobile theme…”
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Hello jQuery Mobile

“In this article I am going to introduce you to jQuery Mobile, hereafter fondly referred to as jQM. We will step through the absolute minimum required to author a website with jQM, touch on some of the preliminary pitfalls…”
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jQuery Mobile Components

“This article continues development of the CSS3 Shapes reference site, and continues to refer to our new best friend as jQM, but this time around we’ll take a whistle stop tour of Components…”
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Mobile SDKs Offer Security

“The mobile industry issues anti-malware solutions to secure popular mobile platforms almost as an afterthought. But, what is it doing to explicitly address security early on, such as with the SDKs developers use to write mobile applications…”
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How to Speed Up Your Mobile Site

“Along with the development of mobile Internet grows the need to optimize the time of the page load for mobile sites. Even the most advanced smartphones on Android, iOS, WebOS, BlackBerry OS, and others have a processor with a frequency of less than 1Ghz…”
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Useful Websites & Tools

jQuery Mobile

“A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement…”
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PhotoSwipe

“PhotoSwipe is a FREE HTML/CSS/JavaScript based image gallery specifically targeting mobile devices….”
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Ripple

“Ripple is a multi-platform mobile environment emulator that runs in a web browser…”
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Mulberry

“Mulberry helps web developers rapidly create content-rich native mobile applications. Powered by HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and built on top of PhoneGap, Mulberry transforms your content and data into a responsive, native, cross-platform mobile experience…”
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Mobile HTML5

“Mobile HTML5 tells you how compatible a certain mobile device is with HTML5…”
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Books

Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices

Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices is a practical guide for front-end web designers and developers. You’ll discover a fun and fresh approach to mobile web design and development, with enormous scope for opportunity.

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Programming the Mobile Web

If you’re an experienced web developer, this book shows you how to build a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. You’ll learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile apps with HTML, CSS, and other standard web tools.

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Mobile Web Design For Dummies

With the popularity of Internet access via cell phones and other mobile devices, Web designers now have to consider as many as eight operating systems, several browsers, and a slew of new devices as they plan a new site, a new interface, or a new sub-site

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jQuery Mobile First Look

The jQuery Mobile First Look is a perfect reference to keep on your desk for finding out the capabilities of the jQuery Mobile framework and how you can put it to good use. This book will show you how to enjoy your programming by letting a simple yet effective JavaScript library handle the hassles you would encounter otherwise.

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Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps

Mobile Design and Development by Brian Fling is a start to finish guide for designing and building mobile apps regardless of experience, device or platform. Brian took on the daunting challenge to write the mobile guide missing from bookshelves

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Beginning Smartphone Web Development

Written by learnthemobileweb.com’s Gail Frederick, Beginning Web Development is one of the first, if not the first, books by a major publisher on Smartphone specific application development and mobile Web standards.
The book contains 90% cross-platform development techniques for all smartphone browsers and 10% optimizations for WebKit, Chrome, Palm Pre, Pocket IE and popular third-party smartphone browsers like Opera Mobile and Skyfire.

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Podcasts

The Web Ahead

A weekly podcast about changing technologies and the future of the web, discussing HTML5, mobile, responsive design, iOS, Android, and more. Hosted by Jen Simmons.
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This Week in Mobile

This Week in Mobile provides you with the most recent news from the mobile development world.
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Mobile Business Apps and Content

An Audio podcast communicating the value of Mobile Business Apps and mobile Content.
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Minute With Mobile

This podcast is hosted by Brian LeRoux, a free/open source software developer at Nitobi working on top secret things and not so secret things like PhoneGap, XUI, Lawnchair and WTFJS.
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Mobile App Mastery

Discover the latest mobile app development tips & tricks.
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Mobile Presence

The future of the Internet is mobile. Mobile Presence examines all things mobile from devices to software, services and SEO. Mobile Presence discusses current topics regarding mobility in a world increasingly without wires.
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That’s why we created “The Ultimate AJAX Development Resources Roundup” which is a list of some of the latest AJAX related articles, tutorials, tools, books, websites and podcasts that may capture your attention. Enjoy!

Articles & Tutorials

AJAX in JQuery using jQuery.get and jQuery.post methods

“AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a blend of multiple technologies like JavaScript and XML which lets one fetch data on a web page asynchronously from the server. Ajax helps to load parts of a web page by fetching data from the server without having a complete page reload…”
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How to Upload Files with CodeIgniter and AJAX

“Uploading files asynchronously can be a pain at the best of times, but when coupled with CodeIgniter, it can be a particularly frustrating experience. I finally found a way that not only works consistently, but keeps to the MVC pattern…”
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Coding an Instant Login Form with jQuery and PHP/Ajax

“In this brief tutorial I’m going to explain how to create an instant login form with jQuery and PHP. We won’t be accessing any database to keep things simplified for now…”
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Make Cross Domain AJAX Calls With jQuery and PHP

“Now on the web AJAX calls are becoming more and more common, they can be very useful to create a better user experience on your web applications. But on most modern browsers they will block any cross domain AJAX calls mainly for security reasons…”
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AJAX Search Suggestions in Input Fields

“Today we are going to create AJAX search suggestions inside input text fields. This is different from AJAX Auto-suggest or AJAX Live Search…”
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How to Asynchronously Upload Files Using HTML5 and Ajax

“Now we have a valid set of files, it possible to upload each one to the server. The process occurs asynchronously in the background so the user can complete other on-page tasks while it occurs…”
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Ajax-ed live availability

“In this short tutorial, we are going to create a script that checks for the availability of a username and returns a response to the user when they click outside the input field…”
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Uploading Files with AJAX

“I can’t seem to reach the end of the fun stuff you can do with emerging web technologies. Today, I’m going to show you how to do something that—until the last while—has been almost unprecedented: uploading files via AJAX…”
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Mobile Web Apps: Ajax

“We’ve now learned how to transition between pages smoothly and without reloading, but so far we’ve only done this with static content. We need to be able to load our pages dynamically, and then transition to them…”
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Useful Websites, Tools & Services

Ajaxian.com

“A blog about Ajax, JavaScript, PHP and other development topics…”
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SuperAgent

“Super Agent is light-weight progressive ajax API crafted for flexibility, readability, and a low learning curve after being frustrated with many of the existing request APIs….”
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Combogrid

“Combogrid, like autocomplete, when added to an input field, enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, but in a tabular and paginated manner. Combogrid provides keyboard navigation support for selecting an item….”
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SFBrowser

“SFBrowser is a file browser and uploader for jQuery that uses AJAX for file uploads…”
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CanvasLoader

“The Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator is a free AJAX tool for creating slick preloaders for HTML projects….”
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AjaxFormPro

“This is a multi-usage web form meant to enhance the functionality of your website by providing an interactive user experience for your website visitors that need to reach you…”
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EasyBasket

“Through the use of HTML, jQuery, AJAX, PHP core, XML, XSL and CSS Easy Basket has become a true two part application…”
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Books

Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer’s Guide

Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax teaches you how to master this powerful and elegant language so you can develop intuitive user interactions that take the user experience to new levels of sophistication and responsiveness.

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JavaScript Web Applications

Building rich JavaScript applications that bring a desktop experience to the Web requires moving state from the server to the client side—not a simple task. This hands-on book takes proficient JavaScript developers through all the steps necessary to create state-of-the-art applications, including structure, templating, frameworks, communicating with the server, and many other issues.

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Applied jQuery: Develop and Design

Applied jQuery teaches readers how to quickly start writing application interfaces. The beautifully designed book offers practical techniques and provides lots of real-world advice and guidance. The Author, Jay Blanchard, has practical experience working in the field and wastes no time getting to the instruction, taking the reader from a beginner to a proficient interface programmer by the end of the book.

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Ajax: The Definitive Guide

Ajax: The Definitive Guide explains how to use standards like JavaScript, XML, CSS, and XHTML, along with the XMLHttpRequest object, to build browser-based web applications that function like desktop programs. You get a complete background on what goes into today’s web sites and applications, and learn to leverage these tools along with Ajax for advanced browser searching, web services, mashups, and more.

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AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications

This book is a step-by-step, example-driven AJAX tutorial, featuring complete case studies. Each chapter contains a friendly mix of theory and practice, so that your journey through the book will be pleasant, yet efficient. You’ll be coding your first AJAX application at the end of the first chapter, and with each new chapter you’ll develop increasingly complex AJAX applications featuring advanced techniques and coding patterns.

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Podcasts

Audible Ajax

Ben and Dion of Ajaxian.com discuss issues around the new Web technology called Ajax (a.k.a. dhtml) and interview various Ajax notables.
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The Art of Code

The Art of Code is a podcast for web designers or anyone interested in programming for the internet. Topics covered include CSS, xhtml, Javascript, AJAX, php and flash.
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jQuery for Designers – screencasts and tutorials

Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery.
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We thought that this list of freelance websites that offer lists of full-time or part-time jobs available in many countries would be useful to many. If you know another great website that you’d like us to include in the future – please don’t hesitate to tell us in the comments.

Freelancer

Formerly known as GetAFreelancer.com, this website is one of the best outsourcing websites on the web. Here you can connect with over 2,800,799 employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through this website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services.
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FreelanceSwitch

This moderated job board puts you in touch with high-quality clients. Very simple to understand and use on the freelancers’ end.
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Elance

Being one of the world’s leading platforms for online employment, Elance helps businesses and individuals hire and manage in the cloud. If you have skills and talent and are seeking independent work online, Elance offers access to qualified clients, a virtual workplace and guaranteed pay for great work. To help make delivering great results easier for you, Elance offers a suite of tools to help make your work life as efficient as possible.
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oDesk

oDesk is the marketplace for online workteams, with the best business model for both employers and contractors. Their unique approach guarantees to employers that an hour billed is an hour worked, while guaranteeing to contractors that an hour worked is an hour paid.
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vWorker

vWorker.com connects 165,704 employers and entrepreneurs to 339,336 experts in hundreds of fields, who complete thousands of succesful projects every month.
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GetACoder

GetACoder is a leading Global Services Marketplace doing business in more than 200 countries. Their unique system accelerates your time to market and provides your business with key competitive advantages.
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Scriptlance

ScriptLance is one of the world’s most affordable and easy to use outsourcing service for programming jobs. Expert programmers, designers, marketers and writers bid to complete work quickly, professionally and under budget. ScriptLance has over $500,000 in billings, 8,088 active freelancers and 3,524 satisfied customers in the past month!
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Project4Hire

Project4Hire is another great place where web developers can easily find their clients. Projects are divided into categories, and it is easy for you to find work in the area you specialize.
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SmashingMagazine Jobs

Being posted on one of the best blogs in the world, these lists surely will help you find a client. Different jobs, both full-time and part-time available.
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FreshWebJobs

Freshwebjobs.com is a job board with a declared goal of bringing together companies and professionals who take interests in latest web technologies, web standards and web design trends.
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Krop

Krop is a Job Board and career resource website for creative professionals. Whether you’re looking for job, or hunting top-notch talent, Krop’s simple and powerful tools are geared towards connecting the worlds brightest minds with the best companies.
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