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Web Design for Developers

Web Design for Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $42.95 USD) will show you how to make your web-based application look professionally designed. You’ll learn how to pick the right colors and fonts, avoid costly interface and accessibility mistakes, and make your application really come alive.

Author Brian Hogan says, “If you’ve ever written an application and wished it looked a little better, then this book is for you. If you’ve ever looked at your favorite website and tried to pull apart the CSS to figure out how it works, you’re come to the right place.”

Brian walks you through some common Photoshop and CSS techniques and works through a complete web site redesign, taking a new design from concept all the way to implementation.

You’ll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop, and then finally into a working web page. You’ll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences.

Advance Praise

“This is the book I wish I had had when I started to build my first website. It covers web development from A to Z and will answer many of your questions while improving the quality of the sites you produce.”

–Shae Murphy, CTO, Social Brokerage

Web Design for Developers
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Brian Hogan
ISBN: 9781934356135, 300 pages

Just published: Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting

Mike Murach & Associates has just published a new book entitled Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting. This book is written for developers who want to know how to use JavaScript and DOM scripting to create websites that deliver the fast response times, dynamic user interfaces, and special effects that today’s users expect. Here are some highlights:

#1: Two books in one, it covers both JavaScript and DOM scripting
Most books cover either JavaScript or DOM scripting. But to create user-responsive sites, you need to know both.

So the first half of this book is a course in JavaScript essentials. Then, the second half is a course in applied JavaScript, showing how to use DOM scripting to build applications that run slide shows, use drop-down menus, rotate headlines, sort tables, and provide animation.

As a result, web developers can gain basic to expert skills using a single book.

#2: It provides a fast start
Section 1 is a crash course in JavaScript. In fact, by the end of chapter 3, developers will know how to code, test, and debug applications that include elementary DOM scripting. Then, the rest of the book builds on those skills to cover all the JavaScript and DOM scripting essentials.

#3: It shows how to create and use
event-handling libraries for browser compatibility
One of the headaches of web programming is ensuring that the JavaScript code will work with all the popular browsers.

So this book shows web developers how to create their own event-handling libraries of browser-compatible code. That training also enables them to appreciate…and profit from…the extensive libraries of tested code that are included in the downloadable applications for the book.

#4: It shows 20 complete applications that can be used as models for new apps
The key to mastering client-side web development is to have plenty of applications that show how the features interact and what problems might occur in building a website. So this book shows complete code for 20 professional applications, ranging from forms validation to revolving slide shows.

These can be downloaded for free from the Murach website, so developers can experiment with them on their own.

#5: The paired-pages format lets developers set their own pace
Murach books have a distinctive format. Each two-page spread presents a single topic: the lefthand page explains the topic, while the righthand page shows the critical details, using syntax, code, screen shots, and how-to notes. Both beginning and experienced developers find that this format makes it easy to focus on the information they need, whether they’re using the book for training or reference.

Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting is available directly from the publisher at www.murach.com and from all major retail outlets.

Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting
Author: Ray Harris
Pages: 764       
ISBN: 978-1-890774-55-4       
Price: $54.50

Working with VBScript

HTML is the language, which is primarily used to design WebPages. We can be able to do formatting and design forms with the help of HTML. But nothing beyond like (user actions, validations etc) are not possible with HTML.

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JavaScript

JavaScript is a scripting language based upon Java and it is an Interpreted Language. You require only Notepad and a browser to program using JavaScript. There are two types of scripts.

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Working with StyleSheets

The mechanism that applies a style across one or more pages is termed as cascading style sheets or CSS. Style sheets are used to control all aspects of graphic presentation of a Web page like fonts, background-color, background-image, margins etc.

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Working with Forms in HTML

Forms are used widely on the Web pages. Web sites collects feedback information, registration details through the forms from the users. If you ever signed up for free web pages, free email services you may be already aware and familiar with forms.

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Working with Frames in HTML

You can divide the browser window into frames (two partitions). You can create any number of frames as per your needs. A frame is created by using <FRAMESET> tag.

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Working with Tables in HTML

One of the unique features of HTML is its ability to create tables. A developer can easily integrate the data’s into a table very easily. As usual you have to apply the tags appropriately.

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Working with Images and Links in HTML

A web site is not a single page. It consists of several pages connected together. For example, when you click a text "About us", your browser automatically takes you to that web page. How is this magic occurring?.

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An introduction to HTML

HTML Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It’s used to design and format WebPages. Programming Languages like C/C++ are having syntax, which we should learn to effectively program in that language. In HTML, we call these syntax as Tags. Tags are enclosed within angular brackets < and >.

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