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Lynda – WordPress Developer Tips Creating a Popular Posts Plugin

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Lynda – WordPress Developer Tips Creating a Popular Posts Plugin
English | Size: 176 MB
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This installment of WordPress Developer Tips offers a simple, code-based method for tracking and displaying popular posts. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen will help you build a custom plugin to track the popularity of posts, based on views, and then create a widget to display a list of the five most popular posts on the front page, or on any other widgetized area, of your WordPress site. This feature will help visitors discover more content on your site, and help site owners understand what posts are trending. [Read more…]

Lynda – Up And Running With Articulate Storyline

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Lynda – Up And Running With Articulate Storyline
English | Size: 883 MB
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In this course, David Rivers introduces you to Articulate Storyline, an elearning tool to help you build interactive content. Learn how to plan a Storyline project, create a presentation using all of the different assets and elements, work with media such as audio and video, and publish your project. You’ll also discover how to assess the effectiveness of an elearning experience using the Storyline quiz features. [Read more…]

Lynda – Titanium Mobile App Development Essential Training

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Lynda – Titanium Mobile App Development Essential Training
English | Size: 647.35 MB
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In this course, author Rafael Hernandez creates native iOS and Android applications from a single codebase with the open-source Appcelerator Titanium platform. The course explains the difference between browser-based javascript and Titanium javascript, shows how to create a basic application, and demonstrates building buttons, sliders, switches, and pickers. The course also covers creating tables, implementing maps, providing feedback to users, incorporating multimedia, detecting gestures, and preparing finished apps for distribution. [Read more…]

Lynda – Multidevice Prototyping with Ratchet

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Lynda – Multidevice Prototyping with Ratchet
English | Size: 137 MB
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Ratchet is a fantastic framework for prototyping mobile apps. Ratchet prototypes look and act just like native iOS and Android apps, but they’re programmed with languages familiar to almost all web designers and developers: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Join Chris Griffith in this course, as he shows how to configure your development environment to work with Ratchet, and build your first app prototype, from creating the initial screen and adding transitions between pages, with Push.js, to using Ratchet’s iOS and Android built-in themes, which make your app immediately look at home on either platform. [Read more…]

Lynda – Motion Graphics for Video Editors Working with Type

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Lynda – Motion Graphics for Video Editors Working with Type
English | Size: 3,79 GB
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Text is used in video projects all the time, whether it’s in lower thirds, title sequences, or credits. As a video editor or aspiring motion graphics artist, it’s crucial to learn the fundamentals of working with type: compositing type, animating type, and creating 3D text and logos. In this course, Rich Harrington shows how to perform these tasks in Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro, three programs that are tightly integrated and make it easy to share and hand off assets. Watch and learn how to add a new dimension to your video projects, with type. [Read more…]

Lynda – Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC

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Lynda – Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CC
English | Size: 2,81 GB
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Many post-production studios are migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro. This course shows video editors what to expect when making the switch, focusing on the key differences in the editing workflow in Premiere Pro. Author Jeff Greenberg walks through each step: ingest, project setup, Timeline editing, audio enhancement, transitions and effects, and export. The final chapter covers a few advanced features that will help your projects transition seamlessly from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro. [Read more…]

Lynda – Debugging PHP Advanced Techniques

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Lynda – Debugging PHP Advanced Techniques
English | Size: 178 MB
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Debug your PHP code efficiently with a variety of client and server-side tools. In this concise course for experienced PHP developers, author Jon Peck demonstrates how to leverage PHP’s built-in tools, as well as the Xdebug and Firebug extensions, and FirePHP libraries to improve the quality of your code and reduce troubleshooting overhead.

This course covers installation of Xdebug on Apache as well as working with the NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment). Jon then introduces native web browser developer tools for Firefox and Chrome, and demonstrates browser independent web debugging tools. Best practices for debugging and profiling web application failures and performance issues are also covered. [Read more…]

Lynda – Creating a Small-Business Website with Adobe Muse

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Lynda – Creating a Small-Business Website with Adobe Muse
English | Size: 783.03 MB
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Creating and maintaining an up-to-date website is key to the success of any small business. Whether it’s a job for the restaurant up the street or for your very own company, this course will teach you everything you need to know to make a small business look big. And it’s all done with Adobe Muse CC: from creating and importing graphics that fit the brand and setting up multiple pages for products and services to implementing slideshows, video, maps, and social media options. You can even see how to add a contact form, a map for your location, and a shopping cart to sell products online. When you’re done creating your site, author Paul Trani will show you how to publish it online and even get your own business domain for SEO and promotional purposes. [Read more…]

Lynda – CSS Page Layouts

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Lynda – CSS Page Layouts
English | Size: 1,07 GB
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CSS: Page Layouts introduces basic layout concepts, gives advice on how to create properly structured HTML based on prototypes and mockups, and goes into critical page layout skills such as floats and positioning. Author James Williamson shows how to combine these techniques to create fixed, fluid, and responsive layouts. Designers are also shown how to enhance their pages through the creative use of CSS techniques like multi-column text, opacity, and the background property. Exercise files are included with this course. [Read more…]

Lynda – Building Android and iOS Apps with Dreamweaver CC and PhoneGap-ELOHiM

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Lynda – Building Android and iOS Apps with Dreamweaver CC and PhoneGap-ELOHiM
English | Size: 637 MB
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Dreamweaver users: welcome to the brave new world of mobile app development. Now, with the PhoneGap plugin and basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can create apps for iOS and Android devicesΓand this course shows you how. Author Joseph Lowery first explains how to set up both Android and iOS work environments, including the simulators you’ll need for testing your app on different phone models and operating systems. Then he takes you step by step through the creation of a basic app with jQuery Mobile with a custom theme. The final chapters demonstrate how to build an app from scratchΓcomplete with transitions and slidersΓand then construct a data-entry form optimized for mobile. [Read more…]