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Lynda.com – WordPress 3: Building Child Themes | 455 MB
Duration: 3h 18m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960×540 15fps 200Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

WordPress 3: Building Child Themes shows how to create a new theme based on a prebuilt parent theme in WordPress, and change the functionality, presentation, or styling of a site. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers importing parent themes, adding custom menus, restyling the header image, customizing the sidebar and index pages, implementing the Post Thumbnail feature, and incorporating JavaScript. The course also shows how to establish a quick and efficient theme restyling workflow, taking a design from mockup to fully functional site. Workflow techniques including modifying basic CSS by using a code editor such as Eclipse, the developer tools in the Chrome browser, and WordPress. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Picking a parent theme
* Creating and activating a basic WordPress child theme
* Using the developer tools
* Creating a functions file and changing the header image size
* Using conditional statements for customized effects
* Adding custom menus to the child theme and/or a template
* Changing the default footer content
* Adding featured images to posts
* Changing the display of meta content (date, author, category, etc.)
* Excluding categories from the front page with custom queries
* Adding additional options to the user profile
* Including functions from external files
* Identifying and fixing common mistakes

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Lynda.com – Effective HTML Email and Newsletters | 382 MB
Duration: 2h 25m | Video: AVC (.MOV) 960×540 15fps 300Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Effective HTML Email and Newsletters provides in-depth, hands-on training on all aspects of email marketing, from crafting emails and setting up effective marketing campaigns to managing spam filters and evaluating delivery services. Author Tim Slavin introduces the fundamentals of email marketing, including the differences between HTML email and web pages, how to code emails that display properly on receipt, and ways to stay current with HTML email standards and capabilities. The course includes several project-oriented tutorials on creating multi-column newsletter layouts and multi-product offer emails, and also explains how to automate email creation, test emails prior to delivery, outsource campaigns, and address common coding problems. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
* Understanding MIME types
* Reducing spam potential in an email or email list
* Creating content for email campaigns
* Understanding the design constraints of HTML emails
* Building email address lists
* Understanding the ideal coding process
* Designing a plain text email from an HTML email
* Deciding how and when to test an email
* Sending email with canned templates
* Troubleshooting layout, spacing, and image issues
* Adding video to email

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Lynda.com – Douglas Kirkland on Photography: A Conversation with Gerd Ludwig | 456 MB
Duration: 50m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960×540 15fps 1100Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 128Kbps 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

In this installment of Douglas Kirkland On Photography, Douglas Kirkland talks with his friend and colleague, Gerd Ludwig. A photojournalist best known for his work in National Geographic magazine, Gerd Ludwig has taken a special interest in Russia and the former Soviet Union—in particular, the people and stories surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
As the installment begins, Gerd is packing for this third major trip to Chernobyl. Gerd shares his techniques for choosing and packing gear for a photojournalism expedition.
Next, Douglas and Gerd sit down for a wide-ranging conversation. They discuss the changing business landscape of photography and Gerd’s approach to photojournalism. Gerd also describes how and why he works in Chernobyl and details how he financed his latest trip through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com.
After Gerd returns from Chernobyl, he and Douglas meet again to review some of the photographs and video that Gerd shot during his latest trip. They talk about Chernobyl today, about how video is impacting photojournalism, and about the future of Gerd’s "Long Shadow of Chernobyl" project.

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NetTuts Building a Simple CSS Selector Engine
Video: H.264 MPEG-4 AVC 1280×720 30fps | Audio: MPEG AAC Stereo 872kbps 44.100kHz | 70.17MB

About the Tutorial

“
You’ve probably used the selector engines built into several JavaScript libraries . . . but do you have any idea how they’re built?
If not, this tutorial will take you through the process of crafting your own CSS selector engine.
You’ll learn how to break down the decently complex problem of selecting DOM elements into manageable chunks and code it piece by piece . . . all while using only the best JavaScript practices!
Recently, I thought I’d try my hand at creating a simple CSS selector engine. You know what I’m talking about:
it’s the kind of thing you use in most JavaScript libraries, where you pass in a CSS selector to find the elements you want to work with.
Today, I’ll show you how to create a really simple one!
What we are going to be building today is in no way something you’d use on a live site.
It will not have all the great features you’re used to using in the “real” selector engines, but it will give you a small taste of how complicated something like Sizzle or NWMatcher can be.
And who knows? Maybe you’ll pick up a few JavaScript tips and tricks on the way.
Selectors Our Engine will Match
* ids: #main, div#content
* classes: .selected, li.current
* elements: span, p
* any combo of the above: section#main .img_wrap img
”

http://marketplace.tutsplus.com/item/building-a-simple-css-selector-engine/138209

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Microsoft Office For Dummies 2010 DVD | 4.10 GB
NTSC DVDR | Language: English | 2h 30m | 720×480 (16:9) 29fps | AC3 48000 Hz stereo 192 kb/s | 4.10 GB
Genre: eLearning

Unlock the potential of Office 2010 with this information-packed DVD–it’s your key to your brand-new Office! Learn how to navigate the Office 2010 interface, get up to speed on new features, create professional-looking documents in Word, sort data and save time with formulas in Excel, organize your Inbox with Outlook, add some pizzazz to your presentations with PowerPoint, design detailed databases in Access, keep your files safe and secure and more.

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