Author: David Powers
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: made, easy, design, web, solutions, dynamic, php
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2006-11-20
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1590597311
ISBN-13: 9781590597316

In this book you’ll learn how to: Create dynamic websites with design and usability in mind, as well as functionality Understand how PHP scripts work, giving you confidence to adapt them to your own needs Bring online forms to life, check required fields, and ensure user input is safe to process Upload files and automatically create thumbnails from larger images Manage website content with a searchable database You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perha

Author: David Powers
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: ajax, php, css, cs3, guide, dreamweaver, essential
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2007-07-22
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 1590598598
ISBN-13: 9781590598597

With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more. To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to itThe Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know a

Authors:Tim Jones, Allan Rosson, Barry Kelly, David Wolfe,
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: animation, cartoon, flash, foundation
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-11-19
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1590599128
ISBN-13: 9781590599129

Whether you are an experienced Flash designer or developer looking for a guide to doing animation in Flash, or a novice to Flash who is looking for an effective way to create and distribute animations, this book will prove invaluable to you. Covering every aspect of Flash animation, the book is a fast-paced yet thorough review of the Flash animation process. Written by the Emmy-Award winning team at ANIMAX, this book not only reveals the step-by-step process followed by one of today’s leading Flash animation studios, it gives you valuable tips and tricks to take your Flash animation

Author: Keith Peters
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: things, making, animation, actionscript, foundation
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2007-04-02
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1590597915
ISBN-13: 9781590597910

In this book, you’ll learn All the ActionScript 3.0 (including math and trigonometry functions) and Flash rendering techniques you’ll need to start animating with code Basic motion principles such as velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing How to handle user interaction via the keyboard and mouse Advanced motion techniques such as springs, coordinate rotation, conservation of momentum, and forward and inverse kinematics All the basic 3D concepts you need to do 3D in Flash, from simple perspective to full 3D solids complete with backface culling and dynamic

Authors:Tom Green, David Stiller,
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: designers, cs3, flash, foundation
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 159059861X
ISBN-13: 9781590598610

Flash is one of the most engaging and innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of pretty much anything from simple slideshows, animated banners and icons and cartoons, to Rich Internet Applications, Interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, except that now, it just got better. In 2007, Adobe released Flash CS3, which boasts a whole host of new features, including fully customizable workspace, full ActionScript 3.0 support, a PSD importer, a tween-to-code animation converter, and much mor

Authors:Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll,
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: standards, solutions, web, advanced, mastery, css
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-02-13
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1590596145
ISBN-13: 9781590596142

Over the past couple of years, web designers and developers have begun taking more care in designing and building web sites. Less readily do they turn to old-fashioned techniques such as GIF spacers, tables for layout, and deprecated HTML elements, which can cause accessibility/usability problems and are just bad practice. There are three main web standards married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs - XHTML for data structure, JavaScript for dynamic effects, and Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data. Working as a companion to our Web Standards Solutions book,

Author: Dan Cederholm
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: handbook, pioneering, series, style, markup, standards, solutions, web
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2004-06-07
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1590593812
ISBN-13: 9781590593813

Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax. It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with multiple different viewing devices, such as screen readers for people with vision impairments, cell phones, PDFs, etc. HTML, XML, and CSS are all such technologies. This book is your esse