Peachpit Press
Books by this publisher
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Mobilizing Web Sites: Strategies for Mobile Web Implementation (Develop and Design)
Published 9 years ago
by Kristofer Layon, Peachpit Press
Everyone has been talking about the mobile web in recent years, and more of us are browsing the web on smartphones and similar devices than ever before. But most of what we are viewing has not yet been updated for mobile presentation. How can designers bring more of the web up to speed with the capabilities of today's mobile devices?
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HTML5: Visual QuickStart Guide (7th Edition)
Published 9 years ago
by Elizabeth Castro, Bruce Hyslop, Peachpit Press
Need to learn HTML5 fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML5 and CSS essentials. You'll learn how to design, structure, and format your website.
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HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design
Published 9 years ago
by Ian Devlin, Peachpit Press
One of the most exciting and talked about aspects of the HTML5 specification is the introduction of in-browser multimedia. Websites no longer have to rely on a third-party tool such as Flash or Silverlight to play video and audio. This book is an easy, approachable guide to building native HTML5 multimedia into a website, from the simplest addition to more advanced features.
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WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition)
Published 9 years ago
by Matt Beck, Jessica Neuman Beck, Peachpit Press
WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2E uses a visual approach to teach the essential elements of WordPress, one of the world's most popular publishing platforms. This book gives readers the tools they need to create beautiful, functional WordPress-powered sites with minimal hassle.
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Applied jQuery: Develop and Design
Published 9 years ago
by Jay Blanchard, Peachpit Press
Applied jQuery teaches readers how to quickly start writing application interfaces. The beautifully designed book offers practical techniques and provides lots of real-world advice and guidance. The Author, Jay Blanchard, has practical experience working in the field and wastes no time getting to the instruction, taking the reader from a beginner to a proficient interface programmer by the end of the book.
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JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide (8th Edition)
Published 9 years ago
by Tom Negrino, Dori Smith, Peachpit Press
This task-based, visual-reference guide has been fully revised and uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate scripters what they need to know to keep their skills up-to-date. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know.
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Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects
Published 9 years ago
by Ron Ganbar, Peachpit Press
For many visual effects artists who are just starting out or are moving from After Effects, Shake, Fusion, or another compositing tool, they are learning that Nuke is quickly becoming the feature film compositing industry standard. While there are several online turorials and courses available, there is currently no book on the market for those who need to know all the ins and outs of the software. Until now.
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PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition)
Published 9 years ago
by Larry Ullman, Peachpit Press
With PHP for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users this popular open-source scripting language.
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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac: Visual QuickStart Guide
Published 10 years ago
by Steve Schwartz, Peachpit Press
Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn.
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Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide
Published 10 years ago
by Tom Geller, Peachpit Press
The free and open-source package Drupal is one of the most user-friendly and popular web content management systems (CMSes) available. Sites built on it are highly visible and include The Onion and Amnesty International. Its web-based interface allows those with little or no experience to create professional-looking sites quickly while its flexibility gives them access to such features as blogs, polls, and forums.
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The Web Design Pocket Guide Boxed Set (Includes The HTML Pocket Guide, The JavaScript Pocket Guide, and The CSS Pocket G
Published 10 years ago
by Bruce Hyslop, Lenny Burdette, Chris Casciano, Peachpit Press
The Web Design Pocket Guide boxed set is for both beginning users, who want a brief introduction to core web technologies, and more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference. It's a valuable companion to creating standards-compliant markup that will help Web designers quickly define content, meaning, presentation, and behavior. Accessible, convenient, and inexpensive, this boxed set is exactly what many web designers need.
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The CSS Pocket Guide
Published 10 years ago
by Chris Casciano, Peachpit Press
CSS is a language for describing the presentation of elements in a document marked up in HTML. It enables you to rapidly create Web designs that can be shared by multiple pages, accelerates development time, and is the essential tool for building standards-compliant sites. This low-priced pocket guide works as a concise introduction to CSS3 and serves as a handy reference. In it readers will learn *The core concepts of CSS *How to format text with CSS
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CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition)
Published 10 years ago
by Jason Cranford Teague, Peachpit Press
With CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the stylesheet language, or skip ahead to any chapter of the book to look up specific tasks covering just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions, and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users CSS. Best-selling author Jason Cranford Teague takes readers through today's CSS essentials and provides extensive coverage of CSS3 and CSS 2.1 techniques.
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EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders (One-Off
Published 10 years ago
by Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press
Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy documentation, and incomplete creation tools.
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Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart (Visual QuickStart Guide
Published 10 years ago
by Steve Schwartz, Peachpit Press
Completely redesigned to help users finish tasks more quickly and manage information more effectively, Microsoft Office 2010 offers users a new look and smarter ways of getting things done. From the expanded depth and power of Excel 2010 to the new graphics capabilities and formatting tools of PowerPoint, Microsoft has rethought and reworked the entire suite.
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Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
Published 10 years ago
by Tom Negrino, Dori Smith, Peachpit Press
With the release of Adobe Creative Suite CS5, Dreamweaver solidifies its role as the de facto tool of choice for anyone designing for the Web. Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create, design, and publish powerful, innovative Web sites with Dreamweaver.
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The JavaScript Pocket Guide
Published 10 years ago
by Lenny Burdette, Peachpit Press
JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language that enables you to modify a document's structure, styling, and content in response to user actions. This handy pocket serves as both a quick introduction to the language and acts a valuable reference. It's packed with tips as well as JavaScript syntax, methods, and properties. Concise and inexpensive, it's exactly the guide many web designers and developers need.
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Django: Visual QuickPro Guide
Published 11 years ago
by Steven Holzner, Peachpit Press
DJango is a open source web application framework written in Python. It follows the MVC (model view controller) design pattern; this software design pattern separates business logic from the user interface making it easier to make changes to the logic or interface without affecting the other. Django's primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven websites.
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WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide
Published 11 years ago
by Jessica Neuman Beck, Matt Beck, Peachpit Press
This book gives readers the tools they need to create beautiful, functional WordPress-powered sites with minimal hassle. Using the WordPress user interface as a baseline, authors Jessica Neuman Beck and Matt Beck walk new users through the installation and setup process while providing valuable tips and tricks for more experienced users.
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Before & After: How to Design Cool Stuff (v. 2
Published 11 years ago
by John McWade, Peachpit Press
Before and After magazine's focus on clarity, simplicity, and elegance has won it legions of fans--fans who will welcome this second volume of the definitive Before and After Page Design by John McWade. Truly an icon of the graphic design community, his insistence on approaching design not as mere decoration but as an essential form of communication is vividly apparent in this cohesive primer on page design and layout. And you could not hope for a better, more qualified teacher.
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