Teaches you all about e-commerce and how to create your own online shop using WordPress and WooCommerce. Regardless of a business’s size, e-commerce helps level the playing field, increases a business’s exposure, allows companies to reach customers globally, and streamlines the fulfillment process. In the past, e-commerce websites were expensive, technically difficult, and time-consuming to create but not anymore.

WordPress and WooCommerce together are a complete e-commerce solution that can be used to sell both physical and digital products online. You’ll learn how to install WordPress and how to plan your e-commerce solution with WooCommerce as well as install, create, secure, test, and market a sample online store.

Save time and money by planning your own e-commerce strategy without paying expensive consultants. Increase your brand and products’ or services’ exposure to your target customers, and increase sales by offering target customers the ability to purchase products online as well as reach potential customers globally.

What You’ll Learn

• Plan an effective ecommerce strategy
• Choose a payment merchant and which products or services to sell online
• Secure your store and add products, descriptions, categories, images, and prices
• Maintain and expand your online store with WooCommerce extensions

Who This Book Is For

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Build your next game on a bigger scale with Pro HTML5 Games. This book teaches you the essentials of advanced game programming in HTML5. You’ll learn techniques that you can transfer to any area of HTML5 game development to make your own professional HTML5 games!

Led by an expert game programmer, you’ll build two complete games in HTML5: a strategy puzzle game based on the Box2d physics engine and in the style of Angry Birds and a real-time strategy (RTS) game complete with units, buildings, path-finding, artificial intelligence, and multiplayer support. In the process, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create realistic physics in your game by incorporating the Box2d physics engine
• Design large worlds with lots of characters and let users interact with them
• Use sprite sheets, panning, parallax scrolling, and sound effects to build a more polished game
• Incorporate pathfinding and steering to help characters navigate through your world
• Create challenging levels with intelligent enemies by using decision trees, state machines, and scripted events
• Add multiplayer in your games using Node.js and the WebSocket API

This book will help you take your HTML5/JavaScript programming experience to the next level. It gives you the knowledge and skills you need to develop more complex, bolder games and become an HTML5 games pro.

What you’ll learn

• Creating realistic physics in your game by incorporating the Box2d physics engine
• Designing large worlds with lots of characters and let users interact with them
• Using sprite sheets, panning, parallax scrolling, and sound effects to build a more polished game
• Incorporating pathfinding and steering to help characters navigate through your world
• Creating challenging levels with intelligent enemies by using decision trees, state machines, and scripted events
• Adding multiplayer in your games using Node.js and the WebSocket API

Who this book is for

Pro HTML5 Games is meant for programmers who already have some HTML and JavaScript programming experience and who now want to learn to harness the power of HTML5 to build amazing-looking games but don’t know where to begin.

Readers who have experience making games in other languages such as Flash and would like to move to HTML5 will also find a lot of useful information in this book.

If you do not feel confident about your game programming skills, don’t worry. This book covers all the essentials needed to build these games so you can follow along and learn to design large, professional games in HTML5. The book will also point to resources and reference material for supplemental learning in case you are having trouble keeping up.

With dedicated chapters on HTML5 basics, the Box2D engine, pathfinding and steering, combat and effective enemy AI, and multiplayer using Node.JS with WebSockets, you should get a lot from this book no matter how much game programming experience you have.

Table of Contents

1. HTML5 and JavaScript Essentials
2. Creating a Basic Game World
3. Physics Engine Basics
4. Integrating the Physics Engine
5. Creating the RTS Game World
6. Adding Entities to Our World
7. Intelligent Unit Movement
8. Adding More Game Elements
9. CreaAdding Weapons and Combat
10. Wrapping Up the Single-Player Campaign
11. Multiplayer with WebSockets
12. Multiplayer Gameplay

About the Author

Aditya Ravi Shankar started programming in 1993 when he was first introduced to the world of computers. With no access to the Internet or online tutorials at the time, he wrote his first game in GW-BASIC by painstakingly retyping code from a book he found at the local library.

After graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2001, he spent nearly a decade working as a software consultant, developing trading and analytics systems for investment banks and large Fortune 100 companies, before eventually leaving his corporate life behind so he could focus on doing what he loved.

A self-confessed technology geek, he has spent the time since then working on his own projects and experimenting with every new language and technology that he could, including of course HTML5. During this time he became well known for singlehandedly re-creating the famous Command and Conquer RTS game entirely in HTML5.

Apart from programming, Aditya is passionate about billiards, salsa dancing, and learning to develop the subconscious mind. He maintains a personal website (www.adityaravishankar.com) where he writes articles on game programming, personal development, and billiards.

When he is not busy writing or working on his own projects, Aditya does consulting work with companies to help them launch new software products.

Product details

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WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building sites with WordPress. You’ll learn how to publish content, add media, manage users, and keep your site secure. Developers with a little PHP experience can learn to create custom themes and plugins.

WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administering sites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified for web developers who want to make the most of WordPress. You’ll start by learning WordPress basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users.

About This Book

Then you’ll dig deeper into your WordPress server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for WordPress, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins.

WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and content management system in the world. Its flexible, user-friendly system can be extended with thousands of freely available themes and plugins. This book will teach you how to make the most of WordPress’s built-in features, how to find the right themes and plugins for your projects, and how to build your own custom features. You’ll learn to:

What you’ll learn

• How to install WordPress and configure its settings
• How to create, organize, and display content and multimedia files
• How to find themes and plugins–or create your own
• How to maintain and secure your WordPress sites
• How to set up a network of sites and manage them in a single interface

Who this book is for

This book is for professional web designers who want to learn to build sites with WordPress.

About the Author

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The book is completely up-to-date with code, best practices, and browser compatibilities for HTML5 and CSS3—enabling you to dive in and make use of these new technologies in production environments.

Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns is so much more than just a cookbook, though! It systematically covers every usable feature of CSS3 and combines these features with HTML5 to create reusable patterns. Each pattern has an intuitive name to make it easy to find, remember, and refer to. Accessibility and best practices are carefully engineered into each design pattern, example, and source code.

The book’s layout, with a pattern’s example on the left page and its explanation on the right, makes it easy to find a pattern and study it without having to flip between pages. The book is also readable from cover to cover, with topics building carefully upon previous topics.

Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns book unleashes your productivity and creativity in web design and development. Instead of hacking your way toward a solution, you’ll learn how to predictably create successful designs every time by reusing and combining modular design patterns.

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