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InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide

InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide

By: Sandee Cohen

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 25-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide highlights the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Complete coverage of InDesign CC's new features includes: updated tools for a variety of output formats; the new QR code generator, to easily allow linking to online content; Font Favorites, to make it easy to customize workspaces. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of...

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, 2nd Edition

Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, 2nd Edition

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Publisher: Visual

Publication Date: 10-APR-2012

Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013

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Get your blog up and running with the latest version of WordPress WordPress is one of the most popular, easy-to-use blogging platforms and allows you to create a dynamic and engaging blog, even if you have no programming skills or experience. Ideal for the visual learner, Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, Second Edition introduces you to the exciting possibilities of the newest version of WordPress and helps you get started, step by step, with creating and setting up a WordPress site. Author and experienced WordPress user Janet Majure shares advice, insight, and best practices for...

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Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, 3rd Edition

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, 3rd Edition

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Publisher: Sybex

Publication Date: 03-APR-2012

Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013

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Get the latest information about using the #1 web analytics tool from this fully updated guide Google Analytics is the free tool used by millions of web site owners to assess the effectiveness of their efforts. Its revised interface and new features will offer even more ways to increase the value of your web site, and this book will teach you how to use each one to best advantage. Featuring new content based on reader and client requests, the book helps you implement new methods and concepts, track social and mobile visitors, use the new multichannel funnel reporting features, understand...

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A fully updated guide to making your landing pages profitable Effective Internet marketing requires that you test and optimize your landing pages to maximize exposure and conversion rate. This second edition of a bestselling guide to landing page optimization includes case studies with before-and-after results as well as new information on web site usability. It covers how to prepare all types of content for testing, how to interpret results, recognize the seven common design mistakes, and much more. Included is a gift card for Google AdWords. Features fully updated information and...

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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CC Classroom in a Book

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CC Classroom in a Book

By: Adobe Creative Team

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 15-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Dreamweaver CC choose Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show you step by step everything you need to know to work in Dreamweaver. You’ll learn to create a professional website without having to write code by hand. This completely revised Creative Cloud edition also covers HTML5, CSS3, and media queries for responsive web design. The book also shows how to...

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Sass and Compass for Designers

Sass and Compass for Designers

By: Ben Frain;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 25-APR-2013

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

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Produce and maintain cross-browser CSS files easier than ever before with the Sass CSS preprocessor and its companion authoring framework, Compass Simple, clear, and thorough. This book ensures you don’t need to be a programming mastermind to wield the power of Sass and Compass! Previously tricky and time-consuming CSS tasks will become trivial. Easily produce cross-browser CSS3 gradients, shadows, and transformations along with image sprites, data URIs, and more. Follow along with installing, setting up, and working through an entire project, implementing the Sass and Compass...

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Jetzt lerne ich Joomla! 3

Jetzt lerne ich Joomla! 3

By: Christoph Prevezanos

Publisher: Markt+Technik Verlag

Publication Date: 08-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 24-APR-2013

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Dieses Joomla!-Einsteigerbuch fängt bei den absoluten Grundlagen an und hört mit der fertigen Joomla!-Website auf. Dazwischen vermittelt Autor Christoph Prevezanos alles, was Sie als Joomla!-Neuling wissen müssen: wie Sie das CMS installieren und konfigurieren (lokal und online), wie Sie Inhalte anlegen, Nutzer verwalten und wie Sie das Aussehen und die Funktionalität Ihrer Joomla!-Website mit Templates und Erweiterungen an Ihre Wünsche anpassen. ...

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Adobe Muse Classroom in a Book – First Quarter 2013 Update

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Adobe Muse Classroom in a Book – First Quarter 2013 Update

By: Adobe CreativeTeam

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 10-APR-2013

Insert Date: 23-APR-2013

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The latest update to Adobe Muse added some great new capabilities, including enhancements to master pages and widgets, a brand new spell checker, and new site preview features, as well as code quality and performance enhancements. This “What’s new” guide provides a hands-on tour of the most important improvements to Adobe Muse, and is intended as a supplement to the existing Adobe Muse Classroom in a Book....

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Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers

Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers

By: Sarah Horton

Publisher: New Riders

Publication Date: 12-JUL-2005

Insert Date: 23-APR-2013

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In just over a decade, the Web has evolved from an experimental tool for a limited community of technically inclined people into a day-to-day necessity for millions upon millions of users. Today’s Web designers must consider not only the content needs of the sites they create, but also the wide range of additional needs their users may have: for example, those with physical or cognitive disabilities, those with slow modems or small screens, and those with limited education or familiarity with the Web. Bestselling author Sarah Horton argues that simply meeting the official standards and...

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Adobe RoboHelp HTML 10: The Essentials

Adobe RoboHelp HTML 10: The Essentials

By: Kevin Siegel

Publisher: IconLogic, Inc.

Publication Date: 01-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 18-APR-2013

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During the activities presented in this workbook, you will create RoboHelp projects from scratch and add such best-in-class features as TOCs, Indexes, Glossaries, images, links, DHTML effects, eLearning videos and much more. ...

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Google Visualization API Essentials

Google Visualization API Essentials

By: Traci L. Ruthkoski;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 15-APR-2013

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

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Make sense of your data: make it visual with the Google Visualization API Wrangle all sorts of data into a visual format, without being an expert programmer Visualize new or existing spreadsheet data through charts, graphs, and maps Full of diagrams, core concept explanations, best practice tips, and links to working book examples In Detail There’s a lot of data in our world, and visual representations are often the best method of making sense of it all. Yet, it should not take an army of programmers and analysts to create visualizations in order to make data...

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Instant RESS Implementation How-to

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Instant RESS Implementation How-to

By: Chip Lambert;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 01-APR-2013

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Take your responsive websites to the next level with server-side components Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Build a dynamic website that reacts according to the device Get started with the Modernizr JavaScript library for feature detection Learn how to use WURFL for device detection Use PHP to load certain pieces of the site based on the user’s device. In Detail The web design industry has changed dramatically in the last year. Everything that was common practice before is now outdated and everyone is...

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Jump Start Responsive Web Design

Jump Start Responsive Web Design

By: ; Andrew Fisher

Publisher: SitePoint

Publication Date: 15-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 28-MAR-2013

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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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Industrial Internet

Industrial Internet

By: Jon Bruner

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 28-MAR-2013

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Consumer networks have revolutionized the way companies understand and reach their customers, making possible intricate measurement and accurate prediction at every step of every transaction. The same revolution is underway in our infrastructure, where new generations of sensor-laden power plants, cars and medical devices will generate vast quantities of data that could bring about improvements in quality, reliability and cost. Big machines will enter the modern era of big data, where they'll be subject to constant analysis and optimization. The promise of the industrial internet is that...

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Responsive Web Design by Example Beginner's Guide

Responsive Web Design by Example Beginner's Guide

By: Thoriq Firdaus;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 23-MAR-2013

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Discover how you can easily create engaging, responsive websites with minimum hassle! Rapidly develop and prototype responsive websites by utilizing powerful open source frameworks Focus less on the theory and more on results, with clear step-by-step instructions, previews, and examples to help you along the way Learn how you can utilize three of the most powerful responsive frameworks available today: Bootstrap, Skeleton, and Zurb Foundation In Detail Responsive web design is an explosive area of growth in modern web development due to the huge volume of...

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Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 14-MAR-2013

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Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web—even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It’s easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction. Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, a JavaScript library that lets you express data visually in a web browser....

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The Strategic Web Designer

The Strategic Web Designer

By: Christopher Butler

Publisher: HOW Books

Publication Date: 22-AUG-2012

Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013

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Expand your strategic capabilities and technological understanding! Your clients are looking for an expert--someone who understands rapidly changing technology and can provide strategic insight into their web projects from inception and development to launch and beyond. Are you that person? Today, designers are expected to provide a level of web expertise that extends far beyond just good design. The Strategic Web Designer provides you with a foundation that will allow you to keep your bearings in an industry filled with constant technological change. You'll learn to: Plan web...

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The Designer's Web Handbook

The Designer's Web Handbook

By: Patrick McNeil

Publisher: HOW Books

Publication Date: 20-APR-2012

Insert Date: 08-MAR-2013

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Make the Web Work for You You know how to design. But you can increase your value as a designer in the marketplace by learning how to make that design function on the web. From informational sites to e-commerce portals to blogs to mobile apps, The Designer's Web Handbook helps any designer understand the full life cycle of a digital product: idea, design, production and maintenance. The best web designers create not only beautiful sites but also sites that function well--for both client and end user. Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com and...

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Internet and Distributed Computing Advancements

Internet and Distributed Computing Advancements

By: Jemal Abawajy; Mukaddim Pathan; Mustafizur Rahman; Al-Sakib Pathan; Mustafa Deris

Publisher: IGI Global

Publication Date: 29-FEB-2012

Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013

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As software and computer hardware grows in complexity, networks have grown to match. The increasing scale, complexity, heterogeneity, and dynamism of communication networks, resources, and applications has made distributed computing systems brittle, unmanageable, and insecure. Internet and Distributed Computing Advancements: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Applications is a vital compendium of chapters on the latest research within the field of distributed computing, capturing trends in the design and development of Internet and distributed computing systems that leverage autonomic...

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Dreamweaver CS6

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Dreamweaver CS6

By: Janine Warner

Publisher: Visual

Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012

Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013

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Learn to design and maintain content-rich websites the Visual way With more than 90 percent market share, Dreamweaver is the preferred tool for professional website design and production. For those who learn best visually, this colorful, step-by-step guide is the perfect way to learn the program and start building websites with "wow". Numbered steps and full-color screen shots show you just how to navigate the program, format and style text, create web-based forms and pages, build data-driven sites, and maintain a fully functioning website. All the enhancements of the newest version are...