Flash Books
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Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies
Published 11 years ago
by Janine Warner, For Dummies
A step-by-step guide to creating your first Web siteEverybody's building cool web sites, but how? Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, 2nd Edition, shows you how, with simple, step-by-step instruction that will build your confidence as you build your site.You'll learn to plan your site and secure a domain name, how to use Dreamweaver for site construction, and how to test and publish your site.
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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter)
Published 16 years ago
by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag, Peachpit Press
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites.
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Stunning CSS3: A project-based guide to the latest in CSS (Voices That Matter)
Published 10 years ago
by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater, New Riders Press
CSS3 adds powerful new functionality to the web’s visual style language to help you create beautiful and engaging designs more easily than ever. With CSS3, you can create eye-catching visual effects such as semitransparent backgrounds, gradients, and drop shadows without using images; display text in beautiful, unique, non-web-safe fonts; create animations without Flash; and customize a design to the user’s unique device or screen size without JavaScript.
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The Essential Guide to Flash Games: Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript
Published 10 years ago
by Jeff Fulton, Steve Fulton, friends of ED
The Essential Guide to Flash Games is a unique tool for Flash game developers. Rather than focusing on a bunch of low-level how-to material, this book dives straight into building games. The book is divided into specific game genre projects, covering everything from old classics such as a Missile Command-style game, to hot new genres such as retro evolved. The chapters build in complexity through the book, and new tools are introduced along the way that can be reused for other games.
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WordPress 2.8 Theme Design
Published 11 years ago
by Tessa Blakeley Silver, Packt Publishing
Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it's quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it. The second is "Unique and Beautiful". Occasionally, the site's theme needs to be created from scratch so that everything displayed caters to the specific kind of content the site offers.
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Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: Next Generation Web Standards
Published 10 years ago
by Christopher Murphy, Apress
If you are a web developer, then Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 is your introduction to the new features and elements of HTML5—all the leaner, cleaner, and more efficient code you’ve hoped for is available now with HTML5, along with some new tools that will allow you to create more meaningful and richer content.
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Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers
Published 11 years ago
by Jason Cranford Teague, New Riders Press
Speaking in Styles targets Web designers, aiming to help them learn the "language" that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet. Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it's too hard to learn. Jason takes an approach to CSS that breaks it down around common design tasks and helps the reader learn that they already think in styles--they just need to learn to speak the language.
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The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript (Essential Guide To.
Published 10 years ago
by Jeanine Meyer, Apress
HTML5 opens up a plethora of new avenues for application and game development on the web. Games can now be created and interacted with directly within HTML with no need for users to download extra plugins, or for developers to learn new languages. Important new features such as the Canvas tag enable drawing directly onto the web page, the Audio tag allows sounds to be triggered and played from within your HTML code, the web sockets API brings the facility for real-time communication, and the loc
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Programming WPF
Published 13 years ago
by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, O'Reilly Media
If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken a complete tour of WPF and its major elements.
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Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft
Published 10 years ago
by Chris Leeds, Microsoft Press
Teach yourself how to use Expression Web 4, the professional design tool for creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace -- building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!Learn how to use the state-of-the-art design surface in Expression Web to generate clean CSS and make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you're seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page.