Internet for Busy People

Christian Crumlish

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

Combined sales for the first two editions of Internet for Busy People are over 100,000. Geared toward graphic art professionals, this best-selling Photoshop book includes 32 pages of dazzling, vibrant artwork from practicing Photshop professionals. Use easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures and visuals to create amazing effects in just minutes, just like the pros at leading graphic design and ad firms. Free tutorial images available from the Photoshop Image Bank on the Osborne Web site--8,000+ downloads from the Third Edition Image Bank.

The Internet for Busy People

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Osborne Publishing

From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.
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<li>Understand the overarching principles you need to consider for every website you create</li>
<li>Learn basic design patterns for adding social components to an existing site</li>
<li>Rein in misbehaving users on an active community site</li>
<li>Build a social experience around a product or service and invite people to join</li>
<li>Develop a social utility without having to build an entirely new infrastructure</li>
<li>Enable users of your site's content to interact with one another</li>
<li>Offer your members the opportunity to connect in the real world</li>
<li>Learn to recognize and avoid antipatterns: emergent bad practices in the social network and social media space</li>
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Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience (Animal Guide)

Erin Malone

Web Development & Design

Yahoo Press

"This [Dreamweaver MX/Fireworks MX Savvy] is the second book in the new Savvy series from Sybex that I have reviewed, and I must say that the Savvy series has impressed me mightily so far." --Computer Arts Magazine UK, October 2002, www.computerarts.co.uk Savvy--n. Practical know-how. Dreamweaver MX / Fireworks MX Savvy is a thorough, in-depth resource for every user of Macromedia's powerful web publishing tools. Heading up a team of experienced Web professionals, best-selling author Christian Crumlish teaches you everything from best-practices methodology to the nitty gritty of such common tasks as: migrating sites to Dreamweaver, optimizing images for Web use, creating dynamic content, building web applications, administering your site, and more. Work your way through from Chapter 1 to Chapter 32, or jump right to the information you need most to improve your productivity and get professional results. Whether you're a Web designer or developer, a graphic designer or a project manager, this book will make you a Dreamweaver and Fireworks expert. Coverage includes: Planning Your Web Project: using the Site Definition Wizard; using templates, assets, and libraries; setting up a remote server; and customizing and extending Dreamweaver. Creating and Optimizing Graphics: roundtrip graphics editing, working with bitmaps and vectors, creating navigation objects, batch-processing images, and optimizing images for faster page loading. Designing Web Pages: using tables, layers, and style sheets; using image placeholders; taking advantage of Dreamweaver's new CSS 2.0 support; building a navigation interface; and adding interactive behaviors. Building Database-Backed Web Apps: assembling forms from front to back; choosing from the ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP/MySQL server models; working with dynamic data; and creating Web applications. Handing Over a Finished Project: validating and testing your site, going live, and setting up backend administration functionality to manage a site over the long term. Hands On tutorials let you apply your new knowledge to complex real-world projects, mastering the skills your own Web sites demand. A full-color section illustrates color-specific techniques. See the author's website at www.dreamweaversavvy.com.

Dreamweaver MX / Fireworks MX Savvy with CDROM

Sybex

Microsoft FrontPage 2003: Savvy

Kate J. Chase

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