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Author:
Chris Korhonen, David Hassoun, John Crosby
By FRIENDS OF ED
 Interesting and up-to-date, 2008-07-19
Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR is a book full of mashup examples. Mashups are applications that combine information from more than one source into a single application. Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR provide a solid platform that enables us, developers, to quickly and quite easily build mashup applications. You can embed Google, Flickr, Twitter, Amazon and more services into your code and the possibilities you have with mashups are endless. I have always been curious how to do things like that. How to get to know what to do to make use of existing third party services, APIs or RSSs in my applications. That is amazing but I have finally found the answer reading this excellent book. If you are curious how all those guys do that mashup things you should read this book, too.
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Author:
Keith Peters
By FRIENDS OF ED
Excellent, 2006-01-14
I really love this book. In the first 40 pages I've learned more actionscript than from two other books. Keith Peters concentrates on the important things, leaving away the useless clutter.
It is an interesting read, also if you don't specially want to program animations. By the way, don't miss the foreword from Aral Balkan.
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Author:
Glenn Kirkpatrick, Kevin Peaty
By friends of ED
brilliantly illustrated!, 2003-01-21
if you want to learn cartooning, you should start here. I'd seen these guy's work before, on the 'net - and on TV little did i realise - and they are fantastic animators. The funnyazhell site is really funny, especially El Snakehips - check it out, and it turns out that they're not too shy at teaching either.The book keeps you going at just the right pace, teaching you the basics of drawing with Flash early on, encouraging you to design your own characters, and you learn how to animate them as you follow along. I'd have liked to have seen more walking cycles for refference as i'm finding that bit really hard - but i guess it's up to you to experiment and find your own style, as they say. Kevin and Glenn are even magnamous enough to recomend other animaition textbooks, like the 'Illusion of Life', and cartoons (they're big Ren 'n' Stimpy fans) for inspiration. And that's all I'll need, inspiration, as I recon all you need to know about Flash animation is in this book - and great drawings throughout!
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Author:
Sas Jacobs
By FRIENDS OF ED
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List Price: £27.49
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Author:
Paul Haine
By FRIENDS OF ED
Concise and to the point, 2010-08-16
This is one book that I always run to to quickily check some particular HTML elements. It shows how a particular HTML snippet will display in a user agent so even if you are reading away from your PC, you will be able to see how the code will display in a web browser. After purchasing more comprehensive books, like the The Complete Reference HTML & CSS fifth edtion by Powell, I wanted a resource, that's to the point so that I readily review or look up HTML tags but at the same time should offer more depth than an average HTML Pocket Guide. This book satisfies my requirements above. I am already comfortable with HTML so I was not looking for book to teach me HTML from the ground, though I think a complete newbie may benefit from this book. Through the book, I learnt the anatomy of a DTD(Document Type Definition), the important differences between HTML and XHTML in both their Transitional and Strict variants as well as best coding practices. The implication of serving your pages as xml are also explored.
Where this book really becomes a winner is the fact that it delivers so much in just a few pages. If you navigate to the subject of LISTS, you will learn the three types of lists, including how you can produce navigation menus from list items, when to use each type of list and why. So you get just what you need to produce good code not learning the history of HTML wasting time.
Highly recommended. I suggest new buyers to get a newer version than the one on which this review is based.
Author:
Craig Grannell
By Friends of ED
"The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book-it will tell you all you need to know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable, and look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscure details. It is designed to be invaluable to you, whatever stage you are at in your career, with a mixture of practical tutorials and reference material-beginners will quickly pick up the basics, while more experienced web designers and developers will keep returning to the book again and again to recap on techniques they maybe haven't used for a while, or look up properties, attributes and other details. It is destined to become a close friend, adopting a permanent place on your desk. It starts off by giving a brief introduction to the internet, and the broad area of web design, before diving straight in to HTML and CSS basics, reusing code, other best practices. It then focuses on all the most important areas of a successful web site-typography, images, navigation, tables, layouts, forms and feedback (including ready made PHP scripts for you to use,) and browser quirks, hacks and bugs. The book is completely up-to-date, covering support of the ne...
The Essential Guide to CSS & HTML Web Design (Essentials), 2010-03-07
Having done some web design using DW4 I thought I knew something about web page construction. Now having read only the first few chapters I realise how little I understood. This book is an excellent reference covering the historical aspects of visual text presentation all the way to
the complex aspects of CSS. I certainly recommend this as a must read and good value. The Essential Guide to CSS & HTML Web Design (Essentials)
Author:
Andy Budd
By Friends of ED
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, this title covers advanced Cascading Style Sheet techniques, and includes are all the techniques you need to master CSS and craft modern, standards-compliant web page designs. You'll already know why you should be using CSS, so we don-t bore you with pages of theory; instead, we jump straight into practical solutions, allowing you to get what you need as quickly as possible.
Renowned web designer Andy Budd starts off by introducing the elements of an effective CSS toolkit, including good working practices, the cascade, the box model, relative and absolute positioning, floating, a...
A Must have!, 2010-08-16
I really like this book. When i started with CascadingStyle Sheets, I have problems wrappimg my head around pseudo selectors and Absolute and Relative position. Even after I started understanding them. With this book and HTML and CSS The Complete Reference by Powell, I finally conqured style sheets. After reading this book, and folowing along with the exercises, I can now code my own column based CSS Layouts, aw well as produce CSS drop-down menus that use pseudo selectors. The book is concise and in some cases I could not find certain this I wanted, but that's why you need more than one book so that they complement.
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