Tag: web design

Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

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Adobe Edge Animate Using Web Standards to Create Interactive Websites Simon Widjaja (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Simon Widjaja’s new book is both elegant and practical. It is elegantly structured and illustrated, and it is practical in its approach to showing how to use Adobe Edge Animate. That software package, Widjaja says, “is a multimedia … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

Killer UX Design – How to create compelling, user-centered interfaces – #bookreview

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Killer UX Design Jodie Moule (SitePoint – paperback, Kindle) The overused term “killer app” tends to kill my curiosity about books with “killer” in the title. Still,  “killer” title aside, Killer UX Design deserves some attention, particularly if you are struggling to create a better user experience (UX) for products, websites, services, processes, or systems. The … Continue reading Killer UX Design – How to create compelling, user-centered interfaces – #bookreview

Specificity, Selectors, and the Cascade: Applying CSS3 to Documents – #bookreview

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Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade: Applying CSS3 to Documents Eric A. Meyer (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) If you know some basic CSS but wonder how the “cascade” part of Cascading Style Sheets works, here is a useful guide. Actually, this is a 73-page, two-chapter excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of Eric A. Meyer’s CSS: … Continue reading Specificity, Selectors, and the Cascade: Applying CSS3 to Documents – #bookreview

Learning Web Design, 4th Edition – Beginner’s guide updated for HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript – #bookreview

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Learning Web Design, 4th Edition Jennifer Niederst Robbins (O’Reilly, paperback) Eager to learn web design, but not sure where to start and what you will need? Need a steady, guiding hand as you try to figure out how build your first web pages? This handsome new edition of Learning Web Design can be your how-to, go-to handbook for a long time, … Continue reading Learning Web Design, 4th Edition – Beginner’s guide updated for HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript – #bookreview

Drupal for Designers – Putting Drupal to work, with good planning and design up front – #bookreview

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Drupal for Designers Dani Nordin (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Drupal has (1) a lot of fans, (2) a lot of people who wonder what the heck it is, and (3) a lot of people who complain about it. Sometimes, a Drupal user is each of these at the same time. Officially, Drupal is “an open source content … Continue reading Drupal for Designers – Putting Drupal to work, with good planning and design up front – #bookreview

The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights – #bookreview #in #webdesign

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The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights, 4th Edition Rachel Andrew (SitePoint, paperback, list price $39.95; Kindle edition, list price $29.95) “The basic purpose of CSS [Cascading Style Sheets],” Rachel Andrew notes, “is to allow the [web] designer to define style declarations — formatting details such as fonts, element sizes, and colors — … Continue reading The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites to New Heights – #bookreview #in #webdesign