1. 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

2. 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

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4. 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
site
photo site
map site
credit card site
Before we get started lets try a short quiz to introduce websites and application programming interfaces.

5. 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
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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. 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

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