This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Principles of Document Processing, PODP'96, held in Palo Alto, California, USA, in September 1996. The book contains 13 revised full papers presented as chapters of a coherent, monograph-like book. The papers focus equally on the...
Expression Web is a powerful web development product, and there are plenty of books about it. That puts readers in a tight spot when trying to figure out which book to purchase to learn how to use Expression Web to its fullest. I’ve read a lot of technical books in my career, and the ones I value the most are the...
If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you'll need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML—the most common language used to write web site content. The most recent version of the language is HTML5, and it contains a whole host of new features to give you more power...
Since Tim Berners-Lee’s original idea for a global system of interlinked hypertext
documents from 1989, the World Wide Web has grown into the world’s biggest
pool of human knowledge. Over the past few years, the Web has changed the way
people communicate and exchange information. It has created new business...
The purpose of Jakob Nielsen's Usability Engineering is to help nontechnical people improve the systems so that
they are not only error-free but also easier and more pleasant to use, and more efficient. It is a book that ...shows us how to change the world and does so admirably....One of this book's strengths is that it...
This book provides a theoretical and practical explanation of the latest advancements in information retrieval and their application to existing systems. It takes a system approach, discussing all aspects of an Information Retrieval System.
The major difference between this book and the first edition is the addition to this text of...
In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the WebDesigning Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his...
Many decisions are required throughout the software development process. These decisions, and to some extent the decision-making process itself, can best be documented as the rationale for the system, which will reveal not only what was done during development but the reasons behind the choices made and alternatives considered and rejected. This...
Make mark-up language more manageable with this visual guide
HTML5 is the next-generation of web standard mark-up language, and among other things, it offers amazing new avenues for incorporating multimedia into your sites. What easier way to master all of HTML5's new bells and whistles than with a guide that shows you,...
This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical...
This is the second edition of Dynamic HTML in Action. We conceived the idea for the first edition of this book when we were developing computer applications with early beta versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4. At the time, we knew of no resource that demonstrated how the various emerging technologies for the World Wide Web could...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Interactive Television, EuroITV 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May 2007.
The 24 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The volume combines papers from academia and industry covering a wide range of areas such as...