Application Programming Interfaces Connect Your Website Welcome to “Connect Your Website” This is a learning experience for website creators, owners and publishers to introduce them to the concepts of Application Programming Interfaces. We will help you learn how Application Programming Interfaces can help you increase the value of your website Application Programming Interfaces

Learning Objectives Define Application Programming Interfaces (API) Visually diagram an API List the tradeoffs of using APIs Outline a use case for your website and a sample API e.g. Google Checkout By the end of this learning experience you will be able to define Application Programming Interfaces or APIs, Visually Diagram an API, List the tradeoffs of using APIs and Outline a use case for your website and a sample API e.g. Google Checkout

Navigation Next slide Previous slide Next module Previous module Restart slide Main menu Before we get started lets review the navigation controls for this learning experience. To move to the next slide click the forward arrow. To move to the previous slide click the back arrow. To move to the next learning module use the fast forward arrow. To more to the previous learning module use the rewind arrow. To replay the current slide, use the restart arrow. To return to the main menu, click the home button.

Quiz What is an Application Programming Interface? new programming language interface design of a website connects websites to other services or data Which of these websites can be connected with an Application Programming Interface? blog social networking site email site photo site map site credit card site Before we get started lets try a short quiz to introduce websites and application programming interfaces.

Good job! What is an Application Programming Interface? new programming language interface design of a website connects websites to other services or data Which of these websites can be connected with an Application Programming Interface? blog social networking site email site photo site map site credit card site Good job, an application programming interface connects websites to other services or data and almost every type of website can be connected to another service or set of data with an api

Main Menu Introductory Case Study Application Programming Interfaces Example: Mylinia.com Example: Google Checkout Mylinia.com + Checkout Summary This experience is structured in six learning modules that build on top of each other. In the first module we will look at an introductory case study. In the second module we will explore websites and interfaces. In the third module we will define Application Programming Interfaces. In the fourth module we will look at the needs of a specific example, a website called Mylinia.com. In the fifth module we will look at an example of an API the Google Checkout API. In the sixth module we will explore how to connect Mylinia.com to the Google Checkout API. And Finally we will summarize the learning experience and there will be a short test of the learning objectives

Introductory Case Study Website EchoSign Application Programming Interface (API) Salesforce.com AppExchange To introduce you, a website owner, to the concept of connecting your website to an application programming interface, we will review a case study between a website EchoSign and an API Salesforce.com AppExchange

Echsign is a website that helps customers sign documents over the internet

Salesforce.com is a website that helps other companies manage their business contacts such as their sales leads. Salesforce.com has an application programming interface called AppExchange which allows other websites such as Echosign to use some of their technology

Lets see how Echosign has connected their website with Salesforce’s API. Please click the video to begin

Main Menu Introductory Case Study Application Programming Interfaces Example: Mylinia.com Example: Google Checkout Mylinia.com + Checkout Summary Now that we have looked at an introductory case study, lets dive into APIs a little deeper

Application Programming Interfaces History Types Examples Tradeoffs In this section we will cover the history, types, examples and tradeoffs of Application Programming Interfaces