With the coming flood of connected products, many UX and interaction designers are looking into hardware design, a discipline largely unfamiliar to them. If you're among those who want to blend digital and physical design concepts successfully, this practical book helps you explore seven long-standing principles of industrial design. Two present and former design directors at IDEO, the international design and innovation firm, use real-world examples to describe industrial designs that are senso...
The trick to great design is knowing how to think through each decision so that users don't have to. In Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that illustrate how to put good design principles to work on real-world web application interfaces to make them obvious and compelling. From the first impression to the last, Hoekman takes a think out loud approach to interface design to show us how to l...
NET Enterprise Development in C#
by Matthew Reynolds and Karli Watson
Thanks to the explosive growth in popularity of the Rails framework, the equally popular Ruby programming language now has a great place to hang its hat. The powerful combination of the two provides the perfect toolset to create Web applications that feature concise code, clean syntax, and easy maintenance. This must-have book is your best guide on how to jump on the RoR bandwagon from the basics of Ruby programming to advanced techniques for experienced Rails developers.
Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development
by James Kennard
Packed with expert advice and tips, this book is an invaluable reference guide that you will turn to again and again as you work with Joomla! PHP developers who want to understand how Joomla! works with a view to advanced customization or extension development, and want to learn how to work with the Joomla! framework.
In order to use MyGraphicsLab, you will need a CourseID provided by your instructor; MyGraphicsLab is not a self-study product and does require you to be in an instructor-led course. Customers without a CourseID will not be able to use MyGraphicsLab. This package (ISBN: 0133090019) contains:1 access card for the MyGraphicsLab Dreamweaver CS6 course 1 copy of Dreamweaver CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide print text1 copy of Dreamweaver CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide e-TextProduct DescriptionFull of read...
Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with Ajax
by Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, and Brian MacDonald
With this book, web developers can build engaging and interactive sites and applications using Microsoft's latest web development tools - ASP.NET 2.0 and the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. You learn to create applications that have all the great tricks you see on popular commercial web sites, such as order forms and the ability to interact with a database. And you can build pages that display information interactively without a page refresh. This straightforward tutorial explains how. "Learning ASP...
For years now, web developers have used powerful application servers like PHP and Node that could create our web apps. But recently there's been a shift between how much we can do on an application server versus how much we can do on the browser itself-as well as what we can do on a mobile app. This practical book shows readers how static site generators provide a powerful middle ground between a full app server deployment and a simple collection of static files. Written by two leading developer...
How often do you hear people say things like this? "Our JavaScript is a mess, but we're thinking about using [framework of the month]." Like it or not, JavaScript is not going away. No matter what framework or "compiles-to-js" language or library you use, bugs and performance concerns will always be an issue if the underlying quality of your JavaScript is poor. Rewrites, including porting to the framework of the month, are terribly expensive and unpredictable. The bugs won't magically go away, a...
Thanks to faster browsers, better web standards support, and more powerful devices, the web now defines the next generation of user interfaces that are fun, practical, fluid, and memorable. The key? Animation. But learning how to create animations is hard, and existing learning material doesn't explain the context of the UI problem that animations are trying to solve. That's where this book comes in. You'll gain a solid technical understanding of how to create awesome animations using CSS and le...
Pure ASP.NET is a premium reference for Active Server Pages development in the new Microsoft .NET Framework. Like all books in the Pure Series, Pure Active Server Pages.NET is comprised of 3 parts. Part I Conceptual Reference is a fast-paced primer that covers ASP.NET fundamentals and concepts. Part II Techniques Reference is full of well-commented, commercial-quality code that illustrates practical applications of ASP.NET concepts. Examples are presented in both Visual Basic and C# to appeal to...
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the language used to create Web pages. This work is designed to help all levels of Web page developers to find the tags of special characters they need. The book includes an A-Z tag reference section, which includes the name of the tag and its previous names, a description of the tag, its syntax, notes and cautions about using the tag and its options, related tags, samples of code, and the type of tag. The text also includes a history of SGML (HTML's parent l...
Readers of PHP and MySQL Web Development, now there is a way to take your knowledge to the next level. PHP and MySQL Developer's Projects expands on what you already learned with new hands-on projects that will walk you through the development of dynamic websites with PHP and MySQL. Written by the same authors and in the same style, you will focus on new applications and implementations for PHP, MySQL and additional technologies that have emerged since the first book. Some of these more advanced...
New Perspectives on Blended HTML and CSS Fundamentals
by Henry Bojack and Sharon Scollard
New Perspectives on Blended HTML and CSS Fundamentals provides your beginning Web programming students with in-depth coverage of CSS and its use with HTML5. With the New Perspectives proven pedagogy, your students will think critically and understand WHY they're learning WHAT they're learning.