A huge thanks to Trish Weir, Nanda Padmanabhan, Abhijeet Deobhakta, and Viraj Joshi at Packt Publishing for providing me an opportunity to write my first book and for their guidance, patience, and encouragement. I would also like to thank Eric and Cameron at e107.org for not only supporting the book idea but for taking part in the reviewing team. To all the plugin developers for the plugins used in this book, thank you so much and please continue your outstanding work.

I am grateful to Dr. Padgett at Cuddle Care Animal Hospital for allowing me to use her business site as test site for this book and to Pets911 and Vetcentric for allowing the use of their banners.

I would like to thank Roger, Nellie, Jerry, and Rusty for putting up with my working at all hours of the day and night on this project and to Boomer and Judy who sacrificed a summer of hiking and playing while this book was being written.

My thanks to Gary who rescued me when I was faltering, taught me how to focus, and gave the will to get this project completed and also to my friends Jason, Jeff, Bob, Vladi, and Klara for their support and encouragement.

Finally my special thanks to my mom who kept telling me over the years that I should write a book. Thank you for having faith in me when it seemed like I would never get focused on any one thing longer than a day and for your love and encouragement.