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1. | Overview: Killer UX Design Today, technology is used to shift, sway and change attitudes and behavior. This creates amazing opportunities and challenges for designers. If we want to create products and services that have the power to educate people so they may live better lives, or help to reduce the time people take to do certain tasks, we first need an understanding of how these people think and work - what makes them "tick"....
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2. |  Jump Start Responsive Web Design By: Craig Sharkie; Andrew Fisher Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 15-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Jump Start Responsive Web Design Get a Jump Start on Responsive Web Design today!
Responsive Web Design is redefining the way websites are designed, enabling you to craft websites that deliver exceptional experiences to your users - whether they happen to be using a desktop PC, tablet or mobile device.
In just one weekend with this SitePoint book, you'll learn how to:
Use media queries to maximize website usability
Harness the power of fluid grids
Use dynamic images to automatically scale and select appropriate images
Plus you'll discover how to use responsive content and a mobile first approach....
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3. |  By: Darren Jones Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 15-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Jump Start Sinatra This short book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Sinatra, a framework that makes web development with Ruby extremely simple. It's not intended to be a completely comprehensive guide to the framework or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, but will quickly get you up to speed with Sinatra and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.
The book is built around a real-life example project: a content management system. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way.
This is a clear,...
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4. |  By: Earle Castledine Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 15-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 27-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Jump Start CoffeeScript A practical and concise introduction to CoffeeScript, a programming language that compiles into JavaScript and that makes working with JavaScript easier. The book lays out the basics of the language, its syntax, and the interesting features that set it apart from JavaScript. It should satisfy anyone with an intermediate level of understanding of JavaScript who needs a conceptual and practical introduction to CoffeeScript....
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5. |  By: Don Nguyen Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 15-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Jump Start Node.js This short book provides readers with a fun, breezy and yet practical introduction to Node.js, a language designed from the ground up for writing real time, scalable Internet applications. It's not intended to be a comprehensive guide or an in-depth programming tutorial, but will give you a good grounding in the language, outline what you need to get going, including installing all necessary software, and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.
The book should be built around a real-life example project: a stock market price monitoring application. It's a fun and...
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6. |  Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 29-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Web Designer's Roadmap The Web Designer's Roadmap is a full-color book about the creative process and the underlying principles that govern that process.
While other books cover the nuts 'n' bolts of how to design the elements that make up websites, this book outlines how effective designers go about their work, illustrating the complete creative process from start to finish.
As well as how-to content, the book draws on interviews with a host of well-known design gurus, including Shaun Inman, Daniel Burka, Meagan Fisher, Donald Norman and Dan Rubin.
A non-academic book, this is a fun and easy read packed...
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7. |  Photoshop CS6 Unlocked, 2nd Edition By: Corrie Haffly Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Photoshop CS6 Unlocked, 2nd Edition Photoshop CS6 Unlocked is a full-color question-and-answer book for web designers who want to use Photoshop to create better looking websites.
Completely updated for Photoshop CS6, this comprehensive book covers:
Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts
Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more
Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors
Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds
Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more
Adjusting...
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8. |  PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, Fifth Edition By: Kevin Yank Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, Fifth Edition PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully-functional database-driven web site using PHP & MySQL.This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live web-based content management system.While this is essentially a beginner's book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP. It comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL that include:
MySQL...
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9. |  The CSS3 Anthology, Fourth Edition By: Rachel Andrew Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 15-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The CSS3 Anthology, Fourth Edition The CSS3 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best-practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The fourth edition of this best-selling full-color book has been completely revised and updated to cover newer techniques enabled by CSS3 and HTML5, and more recent trends in web design, such as responsive design....
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10. |  jQuery: Novice to Ninja, Second Edition By: Earle Castledine; Craig Sharkie Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 15-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 29-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: jQuery: Novice to Ninja, Second Edition jQuery: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition is the perfect book to jump-start your journey into jQuery. You’ll learn all the basics, so you’ll be able to truly appreciate the power of this JavaScript framework. Then you’ll move on to more advanced techniques, such as plugin development and the creation of almost every conceivable UI widget....
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11. |  By: Mick Olinik; Raena Jackson Armitage Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 30-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 18-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The WordPress Anthology Written for developers, The WordPress Anthology will take you beyond the basics to give you a thorough overview of the WordPress universe. With a cookbook-style approach, you can pick and choose what you need from each chapter to suit your projects....
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12. |  By: Davey Shafik; Lorna Mitchell; Matthew Turland Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 25-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 28-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP Master PHP Master is tailor-made for the PHP developer who's serious about taking their server-side applications to the next level and who wants to really keep ahead of the game by adhering to best practice, employing the most effective object-oriented programming techniques, wrapping projects in layers of security and ensuring their code is doing its job perfectly....
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13. |  Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB, 4th Edition By: Timmothy Posey Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 28-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 24-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB, 4th Edition Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB, is the ultimate ASP.NET beginner's guide. Timmothy Posey brings previous editions of the book up to date, covering recent developments in MVC, LINQ, jQuery, AJAX, and ADO.NET Entity Framework.Microsoft has made some very exciting improvements and extensions in ASP.NET 4. ASP.NET allows Web Developers to create dynamic, interactive Websites very efficiently thanks to multiple built-in controls and features built into the ASP.NET language....
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14. |  Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, Third Edition By: Ian Lloyd Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 23-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 30-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, Third Edition With over 60,000 copies sold since its first edition, this SitePoint best-seller has just had a fresh update to include recent advances in the web industry.With the first two editions coming highly recommended by established, leading web designers and developers, the third edition with all its extra goodies will continue that trend. Also fully updated to include the latest operating systems, web browsers and providing fixes to issues that have cropped up since the last edition.Readers will learn to:Style text and control your page layout with CSSCreate and Optimize graphics for the WebAdd...
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15. |  Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices By: Earle Castledine; Myles Eftos; Max Wheeler Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 22-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 06-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices Go Mobile: Develop Websites and Apps for Smart Devices:Provides practical, up to date information on all aspects of Mobile Web Development to ensure readers are able to take full advantage of the growing job opportunities in this sectorFeatures an easy to follow, tutorial style, with step-by-step instructions and clear examplesEnables readers to use and apply existing HTML5 & CSS3 coding skills in order to create functional apps for mobile devicesIntroduces PhoneGap and shows readers how to add native functionally to their web app with ease...
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16. |  HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World By: Estelle Weyl; Louis Lazaris; Alexis Goldstein Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 12-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World HTML5 and CSS3 in the Real World is ideal for any web designer or developer who wants to start using the latest generation of web technologies in their everyday work.This book will teach you how to:understand the new semantic markup available in HTML5use CSS3 to make sites beautiful without sacrificing clean markup or resorting to complex workaroundsemploy native HTML5 video and audio in your pagesuse web fonts to enrich a site's typographymake web applications accessible using WAI-ARIAmake the most of the new HTML form elements.This easy-to-follow guide is illustrated with lots of examples,...
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17. |  The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, 2nd Edition, Second Edition By: Jason Beaird Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 28-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 18-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, 2nd Edition, Second Edition This second edition of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is the ideal book for people who can build websites, but are seeking the skills and knowledge to visually enhance their sites.This book will teach you how to:Understand the process of what makes "good design," from discovery through to implementationUse color effectively, develop color schemes, and create a paletteCreate pleasing layouts using grids, the rule of thirds, and symmetryEmploy textures: lines, points, shapes, volumes, and depthApply typography to make ordinary designs look greatChoose, edit, and position effective...
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18. |  Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy By: Jeffrey Barr Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 21-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 01-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is a step-by-step guide to hosting web sites on Amazon EC2. Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions, Jeffrey Barr, this book covers all aspects of cloud hosting and migrating your existing applications and websites to the Cloud....
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19. |  Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes By: Alan Cole; Raena Jackson Armitage; Brandon R. Jones; Jeffrey Way Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 28-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world's most popular CMS, WordPress....
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20. |  Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works By: Mathew Patterson Publisher: SitePoint Publication Date: 07-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful HTML emails that consistently work. It begins with an introduction to email covering topics such as: how email design differs from web design; permission based marketing, and the anatomy of an email.The book shows the reader how to plan, design, and build gorgeous HTML email designs that look great in every email program: Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail, etc. All-important tasks like legal requirements, testing, spam compliance and known hacks and workarounds are covered....
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