Web Design for Developers A Programmer

EBook Description: Web Design for Developers will show you how to make your web based application look professionally designed. Well help you learn how to pick the right colors and fonts, avoid costly interface and accessibility mistakes your application will really come alive. We�ll also walk you through some common Photoshop and CSS techniques and work through a web site redesign, taking a new design from concept all the way to implementation. Developers don�t get to spend a lot of time thinking about design, but many secretly wish they knew how to make their applications look just a little bit better. This book takes you on a journey through a web site redesign, where you�ll learn the basic concepts of design, color theory, typography, and accessibility. 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.

User experience design teams often suffer from a decentralized, blank canvas approach to creating and documenting a design solution for each new project. As teams repeatedly reinvent screen designs, inconsistency results, and IT teams scramble to pick up the pieces. Pattern libraries only go so far, suggesting general solutions to common problems instead of offering concrete, specific design treatments. At times, documented solutions turn into a costly mess of unclear expectations, unrealistic goals, and abandoned work.
Enter components, each of which represents a chunk of a Web page. Designers can produce wireframes, mockups, or markup far more efficiently reusing components based on an established design system. Rather than limit innovation, components enable designers to render solved design frameworks quickly and to focus on the problem at hand, drastically improving the quality and rate of production. In addition, teams develop a deeper baseline for collaboration, a platform for governance, and a structure for useful and predictable documentation.

This book defines the role of components and why they matter, maps out how to organize and build a component library, discusses how to use components in practice, and teaches a process for documenting and maintaining components.

About the Author
Nathan Curtis is a founder and principal at EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Nathan has been a user experience design practitioner since 1996 in areas including information architecture, interaction design, usability, and user interface development. Prior to founding EightShapes, Nathan practiced user experience design during stints at Sprint Nextel, BIG fish Design, and SAS Institute, Inc. Nathan obtained a B.S. summa cum laude in mathematics and statistics from Virginia Tech, followed by a masters degree in statistics from the University of Chicago. He blogs at www.nathancurtis.com and currently lives in Fairfax, VA, with his wife and two children.

Mobile Web Design For Dummies

The perfect place to learn how to design Web sites for mobile devices!With the popularity of Internet access via cell phones and other mobile devices, Web designers now have to consider as many as eight operating systems, several browsers, and a slew of new devices as they plan a new site, a new interface, or a new sub site.

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This easy to follow friendly book guides you through this brave new world with a clear look at the fundamentals and offers practical techniques and tricks you may not have considered.

Explores all issues to consider in planning a mobile site
Covers the tools needed for mobile design, in particular XHTML and CSS
Shows you how to plan for multimedia, e commerce, and marketing your site, including adding audio, video, and social networking
Provides real world examples and tips to help you avoid common pitfalls
If you�re contemplating Web design in a mobile world, start first with this practical guide.

From the Back Cover

Let�s go mobile! Heres how to make a big impression on the small screenThese days everyones on the go, and Web sites that are easy to navigate on your computer screen may be frustrating and inconvenient on your mobile phone. This book is all about fixing that problem! Learn what makes a great mobile Web page, the technologies that help you get around the limitations, and how to pack a punch on the small screen.

Small space, big challenge examine what makes mobile a different creature and the specific design challenges involved
Being flexible learn to adapt your existing site for mobile display
Tools of the trade discover the best markup language for your audience: WML, XHTML MP, or HTML5
Maximize mobile features take advantage of special features on the iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry Storm
Testing, testing discover how to test your mobile designs with online emulators
Get around the limitations find out how to add audio and video and optimize images for the small screen
Spread the word explore marketing options to get the word out about your mobile site
M commerce excitement add a mobile friendly shopping cart to your site

Responsive Web Design

From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready* Learn how to think beyond the desktop and craft beautiful designs that anticipate and respond to your users? needs.
Ethan tackles the big stuff: CSS techniques and design principles, including fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries. And he does it with a grace that?s empowering. It will take some of that grace after reading it to not turn your nose up at your coworkers who are still doing it wrong.

Responsive Web Design - 4

From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready? Learn how to think beyond the desktop and craft beautiful designs that anticipate and respond to your users� needs.

Ethan tackles the big stuff: CSS techniques and design principles, including fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries. And he does it with a grace that�s empowering. It will take some of that grace after reading it to not turn your nose up at your coworkers who are still doing it wrong.

PHP Solutions Dynamic Web Design

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 perhaps storing all your content in a database.
The problem is, you are not a programmer and the thought of writing code sends a chill up your spine. Or maybe youve dabbled a bit in PHP and MySQL, but you cant get past baby steps. If this describes you, then youve just found the right book. PHP and the MySQL database are deservedly the most popular combination for creating dynamic websites. Theyre free, easy to use, and provided by many web hosting companies in their standard packages. Unfortunately, most PHP books either expect you to be an expert already or force you to go through endless exercises of little practical value. In contrast, this book gives you real value right away through a series of practical examples that you can incorporate directly into your sites, optimizing performance and adding functionality such as file uploading, email feedback forms, image galleries, content management systems, and much more. Each solution is created with not only functionality in mind, but also visual design. But this book doesnt just provide a collection of ready made scripts: each PHP Solution builds on whats gone before, teaching you the basics of PHP and database design quickly and painlessly. By the end of the book, youll have the confidence to start writing your own scripts or if you prefer to leave that task to othersto adapt existing scripts to your own requirements. Right from the start, youre shown how easy it is to protect your sites by adopting secure coding practices. The book has been written with an eye on forward and backward compatibilityrecommending the latest PHP 5 techniques, but providing alternative solutions for servers still running PHP 4.3. All database examples demonstrate how to use the original MySQL extension, MySQL Improved, or the PHP Data Objects (PDO) introduced in PHP 5.1, letting you choose the most suitable option for your setup.

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte English

From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready ? Learn how to think beyond the desktop and craft beautiful designs that anticipate and respond to your users' needs. Ethan tackles the big stuff: CSS techniques and design principles, including fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries. And he does it with a grace that's empowering. It will take some of that grace after reading it to not turn your nose up at your coworkers who are still doing it wrong.

HTML5 and Responsive Web Design

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HTML5 Mobile Web Applications
Learn how to build a mobile HTML5 web app that will work across multiple devices, from start to finish. We'll be covering canvas, localStorage and video and all the code is downloadable for you to use.
Responsive Web Design
Responsive Web Design is a fresh take on a growing problem. In this course, you'll learn how to make a design work across the ever widening spectrum of screen resolutions.

Contents
HTML5 Mobile Web Applications

1. HTML5 Mobile UI:

In this first Master Class in the HTML5 Mobile Web Application series, we take a look at the final project, organize our development environment, and then begin work on the Mobile UI.

Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

Beginning CSS - Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design - 3rd Edition

Beginning CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

Completely updated material and new examples show you what CSS can do

With the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and other browsers released, CSS is more essential than ever. This beginner guide demonstrates how cascading style sheets can be used to define styles to items in Web pages, rather than format each item individually. Each lesson in this full-color book has been methodically revised to be more concise and efficient, making your learning experience as productive as possible.

* Covers the latest in CSS, including the new features of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome
* Reviews the vast improvements to mobile browsers and how CSS can work with them
* Provides helpful examples and walks you through real-world solutions to common hurdles
* Discusses embedded fonts, compatibility tables, and cross-browser bug scenarios

Beginning CSS, Third Edition gets you completely up to date so that you can start using CSS in the newest Web and mobile browsers today!

From the Back Cover
Build extraordinary web sites with CSS in the newest browsers

With Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and other browsers debuting new versions, an updated resource on building web sites with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is critical. This new edition of a perennial classic responds to that need and gets you quickly up to speed on using CSS to create appealing web sites in a professional way. Completely updated with new examples, this full-color book has been carefully revised based on reader input and now provides an even more concise and streamlined introduction to CSS. Veteran authors Ian Pouncey and Richard York cover how to write CSS from scratch like a professional, and discuss the many improvements to CSS that have emerged since the previous edition.

Beginning CSS, Third Edition:

* Dissects the various elements that make up a style sheet
* Demonstrates how to style and manipulate the display of text
* Zeroes in on how to use background images appropriately
* Examines the box model and how it is used to lay out content
* Addresses a variety of ways to position content and explains how to create a complete layout
* Reviews advanced techniques such as styling for mobile devices, using custom fonts, and applying gradient backgrounds with CSS

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