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The Art of Application Performance Testingby Ian Molyneaux
O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2009; US$ 27.99This practical book provides a step-by-step approach to testing mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before they're deployed -- a vital topic to which other books devote one chapter, if that. Businesses today live and die by network applications and web services. Because of the increasing complexity of these programs, and the pressure to deploy them quickly, many professionals don't take the time to ensure that they'll perform well and scale effectively. The Art of Application Performance Testing explains the complete life cycle of the testing process, and demonstrates best practices to help you plan, gain approval for, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications. With this book, you'll learn... more...
Landing Page Optimizationby Tim Ash
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008; US$ 29.99How much money are you losing because of poor landing page design? In this comprehensive, step-by-step guide, you’ll learn all the skills necessary to dramatically improve your bottom line, including identifying mission critical parts of your website and their true economic value, defining important visitor classes and key conversion tasks, gaining insight on customer decision-making, uncovering problems with your page and deciding which elements to test, developing an action plan, and avoiding common pitfalls. Includes a companion website and a detailed review of the Google Website Optimizer tool. more...
JavaScript: The Missing Manualby David Sawyer McFarland
O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2009; US$ 31.99JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With JavaScript: The Missing Manual , you'll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- without pain or frustration -- even if you have little or no programming experience. JavaScript expert David McFarland first teaches you the basics by having you build a simple program. Then you'll learn how to work with jQuery, a popular library of pre-built JavaScript components that's free and easy to use. With jQuery, you can quickly build modern, interactive web pages -- without having to script everything from scratch! Learn how to add scripts to a web page, store and manipulate... more...
CSS: The Missing Manualby David Sawyer McFarland
O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2009; US$ 27.99Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site's appearance. You can tap into the real power of this tool with CSS: The Missing Manual . This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you how to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Witty and entertaining, this second edition gives you up-to-the-minute pro techniques. You'll learn how to: Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders... more...
Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, Adobe Readerby Giles Colborne
Pearson Education 2010; US$ 23.99In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user experiences when designing digital tools and applications. It begins by explaining why simplicity is attractive, explores the laws of simplicity, and presents proven strategies for achieving simplicity. Remove, hide, organize and displace become guidelines for designers, who learn simplicity by seeing before and after examples and case studies where the results speak for themselves. more...
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 4 in 24 Hoursby Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Pearson Education 2010; US$ 23.99This is the eBook version of the printed book. Build standards-based Web sites with Expression Web: a step-by-step tutorial that helps you do it right the first time The easy-to-read, hands-on introduction to Microsoft's new Expression Web 4 Establish work processes for building standards-based web code faster and with much less work Covers all the new features in version 4, including HTML5 A complete tutorial: step-by-step instructions, examples, Q and As, quizzes, exercises, tips, shortcuts, and more Expression Web 4 offers a fundamentally different, more powerful approach to web authoring. To make the most of it, both beginners and seasoned web professionals will benefit from a thorough,... more...
HTML5 Step by Stepby Faithe Wempen
Microsoft Press 2011; US$ 23.99Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create Web pages with the HTML5 specification. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Use a division-based layout to structure your Web pages Include menu bars and hyperlinks for clear navigation Apply colors, font sizes, and other formatting with CSS Add graphics, sound, and video to your pages Use the Canvas tag to render visual images on the fly Build user-input forms with buttons, boxes, and menus Your Step by Step digital content includes: All the book's practice files —ready to download and put to work. See "Using the Practice Files," inside. Fully searchable online... more...
Teach Yourself VISUALLY HTML5by Mike Wooldridge
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 29.99Make mark-up language more manageable with this visual guide HTML5 is the next-generation of web standard mark-up language, and among other things, it offers amazing new avenues for incorporating multimedia into your sites. What easier way to master all of HTML5's new bells and whistles than with a guide that shows you, screenshot by screenshot, just what to do? Over a hundred tasks that web designers need to know most are explained using, full-color screenshots and how-to steps. From the easy stuff like revised new header and footer elements to complex updates such as canvas and audio, this guide covers the new, as well as most-commonly used, tags and features. Helps you get up to speed on the completely redesigned new HyperText Markup... more...
Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Designby Randy Drisgill; John Ross; Jacob J. Sanford; Paul Stubbs; Larry Riemann
John Wiley & Sons 2010; US$ 49.99A must have guide for creating engaging and usable SharePoint 2010 branding With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance for creating beautiful public facing and internal intranet sites but it also addresses the needs of those readers that only want to understand the basics enough to apply some style to their sites. Things like creative design, the experience visitors have navigating... more...
jQuery for ASP.NET Developersby Joe Brinkman
John Wiley & Sons 2009; US$ 6.99This Wrox Blox teaches you how to use jQuery with your ASP.NET-based websites. jQuery greatly simplifies JavaScript development and allows you to create highly interactive and responsive websites using the latest JavaScript and AJAX techniques. The author walks you through the jQuery API using a simple ASP.NET MVC application to highlight major topics, and shows how you can apply jQuery to your own applications. After learning the basics of using jQuery, you’ll discover how easy it is to use within your own ASP.NET projects. Whether you are using WebForms or the MVC framework, jQuery will greatly simplify your code. As you will quickly find out, jQuery really is the “write less, do more” framework. Table... more...









