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Drupal’s Building Blocks: Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels
Author Lynette Miles , Earl Miles
Using Drupal, web professionals can create full-featured websites with just a few clicks. Drupal’s core is compact and well documented, but much of Drupal’s immense power lies elsewhere: in external modules that, until now, have not been well documented. Now, howeve....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Animation with Scripting for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Studio Techniques
Author Justin Putney , Chris Georgenes
The definitive guide to creating animation for the web and mobile devices with top animation designer Chris Georgenes and designer/developer Justin Putney. They reveal how to create and successfully animate characters in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and how to push ....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Creating a Web Site in Dreamweaver CS4: Visual QuickProject Guide
Author Nolan Hester
Dreamweaver has been the tool of choice for professional Web site designers for years. And since it became part of the Adobe Creative Suite, even more users, including beginning Web designers, have turned to it to start creating Web sites. This book is for those beg....
Release Date 2008/12 -
The Dojo Toolkit: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Steven Holzner
The Dojo Toolkit is an open-source JavaScript toolkit for building Web applications so dynamic they jump off the page. Filled with special controls like calendars and menus, and special effects like wipes and fade-ins, Dojo is rapidly gaining popularity and is emerg....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Learning Core Audio: A Hands-On Guide to Audio Programming for Mac and iOS
Author Kevin Avila , Chris Adamson
Audio can affect the human brain in the most powerful and profound ways. Using Apple’s Core Audio, you can leverage all that power in your own Mac and iOS software, implementing features ranging from audio capture to real-time effects, MP3 playback to virtual instru....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Studio Techniques
Author Robert Reinhardt
The definitive guide to creating video for the Web In Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Studio Techniques, Robert Reinhardt goes beyond the entry-level coverage found in other books to bring you a comprehensive look at what you really need to know to produce, ....
Release Date 2009/04 -
Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design
Author Ethan Marcotte , Dan Cederholm
There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation
Author Nathan Curtis
User experience design teams often suffer from a decentralized, blank canvas approach to creating and documenting a design solution for each new project. As teams repeatedly reinvent screen designs, inconsistency results, and IT teams scramble to pick up the pieces.....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Author John Allsopp
A companion to Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards, this book approaches standards from a more tactical and instructional point of view. Today's web designers and developers need to update their skills and knowledge and get away from out-of-date table a....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Tom Geller
The free and open-source package Drupal is one of the most user-friendly and popular web content management systems (CMSes) available. Sites built on it are highly visible and include The Onion and Amnesty International. Its web-based interface allows those with lit....
Release Date 2010/12 -
The Garmin nüvi Pocket Guide, Second Edition
Author Jason D. O’Grady
There has been an exponential growth of personal GPS device sales over the last few years and Garmin is leading the way. In particular,the Garmin nüvi navigators have revolutionized what we expect from a GPS navigation device, or from any device for that matter. In ....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone
Author Maggie Costello Wachs , Scott Jehl , Patty Toland , Todd Parker
Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-en....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Steven Holzner
DJango is a open source web application framework written in Python. It follows the MVC (model view controller) design pattern; this software design pattern separates business logic from the user interface making it easier to make changes to the logic or interface w....
Release Date 2009/12 -
Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services
Author Robert Daigneau
Web services have been used for many years. In this time, developers and architects have encountered a number of recurring design challenges related to their usage, and have learned that certain service design approaches work better than others to solve certain prob....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer’s Guide
Author Charles Wyke-Smith
JavaScript is the brains of your Web page—it enables you to modify a document’s structure, styling, and content in response to user actions without requesting new pages from the server. Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax teaches you how to master this powerful and ....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Author Emily P. Lewis
Microformats are HTML-based design patterns that help add meaning (semantics) to Web content. They are widely used by some of the most important sites on the Web including Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, and Twitter. The people behind these sites - content authors, design....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL
Author Larry Ullman
In this comprehensive guide to creating an e-commerce Web site using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through every step—designing the visual interface, creating the database, presenting content, generating an online catalog, managing the shoppi....
Release Date 2010/10 -
ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Author Jobe Makar
The demand for multiplayer games and virtual worlds has exploded over the last few years. Not only do companies want them for site stickiness through social networking, but developers have tremendous interest in exploring this niche area. While developing multiplaye....
Release Date 2009/07 -
jQuery: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Steven Holzner
jQuery is a popular JavaScript library that simplifies event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. Many companies are using jQuery including: Amazon, Google, Twitter, Bank of America, BBC, ESPN, CBS News, Digg, Reuters, IBM, Netflix, ....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Designing with Web Standards, Third Edition
Author Ethan Marcotte , Jeffrey Zeldman
Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. Updated in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environme....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Test-Driven JavaScript Development
Author Christian Johansen
For JavaScript developers working on increasingly large and complex projects, effective automated testing is crucial to success. Test-Driven JavaScript Development is a complete, best-practice guide to agile JavaScript testing and quality assurance with the test-dri....
Release Date 2010/09 -
WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Matt Beck , Jessica Neuman Beck
This book gives readers the tools they need to create beautiful, functional WordPress-powered sites with minimal hassle. Using the WordPress user interface as a baseline, authors Jessica Neuman Beck and Matt Beck walk new users through the installation and setup pro....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source, Volume 1
Author Matthew Boles , Jeff Tapper , Michael Labriola
Adobe Flex: Training from the Source is the best-selling and most trusted resource for learning about Adobe Flex. Written by a team of authors with practical experience as consultants, mentors and developers of courseware, this book/CD uses project-based tutorials, ....
Release Date 2010/05 -
The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries
Author Denise R. Jacobs
One of the toughest challenges novice CSS developers face is when seemingly perfect code doesn’t translate into a perfectly rendered browser page—and with all the different browsers available today, this happens all too often. The CSS Detective Guide aims to help, b....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Author Bruce Hyslop
This handy low-priced book is packed with HTML/XHTML definitions and tips, including those for HTML5 elements in depth. Snappy writing and illustrative code samples walk readers through HTML uses and element definitions. Handy pocket size provides a convenient refer....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Author Larry Aronson
THE CLASSIC WEB AUTHORING GUIDE, NOW 100% UPDATED AND BETTER THAN EVER!If it’s for the Web, this book will help you create it…faster, smarter, better! Don’t settle for canned templates or boilerplate designs! Take control, with the classic guide to HTML web authorin....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Author Lenny Burdette
JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language that enables you to modify a document's structure, styling, and content in response to user actions. This handy pocket serves as both a quick introduction to the language and acts a valuable reference. It's packe....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book
Author Adobe Creative Team
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 choose Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 18 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-st....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book
Author Adobe Creative Team
Those creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Flash Professional CS5 choose Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 10 project-based lessons in this book sho....
Release Date 2010/05 -
InterACT with Web Standards: A holistic approach to web design
Author Denise Jacobs , Glenda Sims , Christopher Schmitt , Chris Mills , Leslie Jensen-Inma
Laying the foundation for a solid understanding of Web design, this book weaves together industry best practices and standards-based design techniques. It is built on practical examples and short exercises crafted to help readers learn quickly and retain information....
Release Date 2010/05