I realize right off the bat that I am going to
date myself here. I began my career as a
graphic designer when the web was still in
its infancy. I learned paste-up techniques
and created marker comps before I ever
knew that same stuff could be done faster
on a computer. once I got out of school,
it became apparent...
Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides all the information you'll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means...
Congratulations! You are building your first web application for your iOS device (iPhone, iPad, or iPod
Touch) using HTML5 and JavaScript.
You might think that you can pick up one of your HTML or JavaScript books from years past and
then just scale it down to the size of your target device and you’ll be good to...
Hello and welcome to the fourth edition of Learning Web Design.
So much has happened since the previous edition! Just when it looked like
things were beginning to settle down with the adoption of web standards
by the browser creators and the development community, along comes the
“Mobile...
Learn how to create beautiful, interactive, browser-based data visualizations with the D3 JavaScript library. This hands-on book shows you how to use a combination of JavaScript and SVG to build everything from simple bar charts to complex infographics. You’ll learn how to use basic D3 tools by building visualizations based on...
A few years back, photography legend Chase Jarvis smartly observed that
“the best camera is the one that’s with you.” It was a mildly shocking assertion
at the time, but it rings true: the perfect shot is rarely planned. Rather, it sneaks
up on you.
Before learning the intricacies of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and JavaScript, it is important that you gain a solid understanding of the technologies that help transform these plaintext files to the rich multimedia displays you see on your computer or handheld device when browsing the World Wide Web. For...
This book is for every SharePoint developer who wants to build state-of-the-art solutions with Silverlight—within the enterprise, for consulting clients, or for commercial sale.
Developers increasingly want to build rich applications that run in the...
JavaScript is a popular web programming language. Oops. I wrote that sentence five years ago. JavaScript is now much more than just a popular web programming language. In addition to web, JavaScript is now a central language for programming Windows 8 Apps. Using JavaScript, you can now not only write powerful applications for...
Software development is hard. Testing that software is hard, too. And when you talk about development and testing at the scale of the entire web, you are talking about Google. If you are interested in how one of the biggest names in the Internet handles such large-scale testing, then you have found the right...
Microsoft Silverlight offers a robust development environment for rich,
cross-browser, cross-operation system businesses, and rich, interactive media
experiences. Microsoft's Silverlight MCTS exam is intended for developers,
who wish to create these types of applications using the knowledge they already
have as .NET...
The combination of PHP and MySQL is the most convenient approach to dynamic,
database-driven web design, holding its own in the face of challenges from integrated
frameworks—such as Ruby on Rails—that are harder to learn. Due to its open source
roots (unlike the competing Microsoft .NET framework), it is...
