- Research-Directed Design Methods: Project Definition
- Nov 16, 2009
- Sarah Horto shows the importance of restraint in approaching a new website design project. Project success depends on defining the project purpose and goals before diving into wireframes, navigation, and especially visual design.
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- The Future of Web Standards
- Nov 12, 2009
- This chapter starts by connecting the dots between web standards, "Web 2.0," Search engine optimization (SEO), and other industry-leading ideas that can make even a businessperson who is indifferent to technology sit up and roll over. This chapter is also for web designers and developers who want to understand what the best web standards have in common, where they came from, and where they (and we) are going.
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- Why Research-Directed Website Design Will Make Your Website Better
- Nov 9, 2009
- Sarah Horton presents a case for using design research to reach informed design decisions. It's not enough to rely on your own opinions or those of your clients; she posits that instead, decisions must be based on an understanding of real user needs.
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- Designing a Custom YouTube Channel
- Oct 5, 2009
- Kris Hadlock explains how to customize your organization's presence on YouTube, with some relatively easy settings changes to make you stand out from the crowd.
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- Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Compression and Encoding Primer
- Sep 15, 2009
- Learn how to make the right decisions when it comes time to compress digital video and audio into Flash-compatible video files.
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- Do Websites Need to Look Exactly the Same in Every Browser?
- Sep 9, 2009
- Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? Let’s find out.
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- Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Delivery and Deployment Primer
- Sep 9, 2009
- Learn the differences between distribution file formats and protocols for Flash-based video, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
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- Events in JavaScript
- Sep 7, 2009
- Charles Wyke-Smith shows you how to monitor and respond to events in JavaScript.
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- Creating a Twitter Widget with Flash
- Aug 25, 2009
- With the help of ActionScript 3.0 and PHP, Kris Hadlock shows how easily you can add your tweets to your website.
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- Designing for Interaction: Design Research
- Aug 19, 2009
- If only a small bit of the typical time, money, and resources used to make and market a product or service were put towards design research—observing, talking to, and maybe even making artifacts with customers and users—the products and services we use would be greatly improved. Dan Saffer explains.
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- Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers: Creating Meaning through Syntax
- Jul 23, 2009
- To describe your Web designs, you need to understand the syntax of CSS. Jason Cranford Teague shows that once you get the hang of it, you’ll be speaking in CSS in no time.
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- Modular Web Design: Combine
- Jul 22, 2009
- This chapter will show you how to assemble components into page layouts, appreciate how components fit into variations of a single page as well as across the context of many different pages, take advantage of component relationships, including duplicates, bundles, and page shells, formulate page regions so that components can be more simply explained and consistently applied, and appreciate the relationship between components in layout and code.
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- Working with Events in jQuery
- Jul 9, 2009
- If you've ever tried to support cross-browser operations in straight JavaScript, you know the difficulties. That's where jQuery comes in. Steven Holzner shows you how it works.
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- Flow of Control in Python
- Jul 8, 2009
- In this chapter, Toby Donaldson looks at how to change the order in which statements are executed by using if-statements and loops. Both are essential in almost any nontrivial program.
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- 'Form Follows Function' Revisited
- Jun 23, 2009
- Curt Cloninger, author of Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground, discusses the concept that 'form follows function,' with particular focus on web design.
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- Beyond the Medium. Toward the Goals.
- Jun 17, 2009
- As designers, we should be willing and able to move fluidly from medium to medium. In order to do this, however, we must first identify the overarching conceptual goals of our design practice. Curt Cloninger asks, have you considered the purposeful development of a lifelong design practice?
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- Flash Essentials for After Effects Users
- Jun 17, 2009
- Flash baffles After Effects users as often as it makes them feel comfortable. This chapter from Rich Harrington introduces you to Flash’s interface and core animation techniques.
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- Random Picture Rotation with JavaScript
- Jun 2, 2009
- Demonstrating some of the key concepts of the JavaScript language, Charles Wyke-Smith walks through the process of creating JavaScript code for random display of images on a web page.
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- Working with Panels in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Jun 2, 2009
- This chapter will help you become more intimately acquainted with the Illustrator interface features that you will be using continually as you work: the panels.
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- XPath Functions
- Jun 2, 2009
- Kevin Howard Goldberg details many common XPath functions, including comparing two values, formatting numbers, and extracting substrings.
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