Logo Design Workbook: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Logos Rockport | 2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1592532349 | PDF | 51.65 MB
“ Logo Design Workbook focuses on creating powerful logo designs and answers the question, "What makes a logo work?"
In the first half of this book, authors Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka walk readers step-by-step through the entire logo-development process. Topics include developing a concept that communicates the right message and is appropriate for both the client and the market; defining how the client’s long-term goals might affect the look and needs of the mark; choosing colors and typefaces; avoiding common mistakes; and deciphering why some logos are successful whereas others are not.
The second half of the book comprises in-depth case studies on logos designed for various industries. Each case study explores the design brief, the relationship with the client, the time frame, and the results.
An easy-to-follow roadmap that can be used by anyone to build a successful website, with the resources you need to choose and buy software, do the work yourself or hire a pro, and even understand the technical jargon that so often scares people away from setting up shop in the Web’s business boomtown.
Secrets to a successful website Defining roles and evaluating objectives Planning and measuring your success Page design and branding Layout challenges Creating killer content User testing Content management systems Web design best practices Domains and hosting Website promotion explained Techniques for engaging visitors
Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces that Work
SitePoint (March 28, 2009)
PDF | English | 2009 | RAR | 73 Mb | RS & DF
Sexy Web Design is an easy-to-follow guide that reveals the secrets of how to build your own breathtaking web interfaces from scratch. You'll be guided through the entire process of creating a gorgeous, usable web site by applying the timeless principles of user-centered design.
Even if you're short on design skills, with this book you'll be creating your own stunning web sites in no time at all.
Throughout, the focus is on simple and practical techniques that anyone can use - you don't need to have gone to art school or have artistic flair to create stunning designs using the methods outlined in this book.
Creating Web Sites Bible, 3rd Edition
John Wiley & Sons; 3rd Edition edition (27 Jun 2008)
PDF | English | 888 Pag. | 40 Mb
Product Description
* Updated for the most recent tools, techniques, and standards for creating cutting–edge Web sites for businesses or personal use, this book is one–stop shopping for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, tables, forms, Flash, and more
* Brand–new chapters cover Ajax, Adobe CS3 tools, RSS, and blogging tools
* Hands–on guidance and expert advice dive into such topics as creating and editing images and graphics, adding multimedia elements (e.g., Flash animations, audio, and video), creating stores for Yahoo! and Amazon.com, designing auction pages for eBay, and building blogs
Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!
PDF | 130 Pag | October 2008 | 16 Mb RAR | RS & DF
Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! is an eye-opening exposé on CSS as we know it today. You’ll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets where old hacks and workarounds are just a distant memory.
You’ll learn how to start taking full advantage of the very latest CSS techniques while still catering for older browsers and discover what’s put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin.
CSS was conceived in an age when web-site design was simple; its creators never anticipated the intricacy of designs that it would be asked to deliver today.
Clever designers figured out ways to make CSS do what they needed, but by using techniques so convoluted it became unpredictable and difficult to master. CSS just became too hard...
The good news is, that’s all about to change, and this book will show you how!
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Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers
PDF | English | 273 Pag | Apr 14, 2008
Web 2.0 may be an elusive concept, but one thing is certain: using the Web as merely a means of retrieving and displaying information is history. Todays Web is immediate, interactive, innovative. It is user-controlled and community-driven. Organizations, marketers, application developers, and communicators must be ready to respond and to innovate or be left behind, and the experts featured on these pages are leading the charge. Their ideas are fresh, sometimes experimental, necessarily flexible, and always on the leading edge to prepare you for a Web where users rule.
Visual Design for the Modern Web
PDF | English | Nov 24, 2007 | 360 Pag | 10 Mb | RS
Product Description:
Just as great artists must understand their tools, great Web designers must understand the technology behind their art. In Visual Design for the Web, author Penny McIntire shows novice Web designers how to use their tools--including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript--in conjunction with the principles of aesthetics and usability to become masters of their craft. Chapters begin with explanations of the terminology and techniques of web structures, then demonstrate how to apply the rules of design to create beautiful sites. The book:
Illustrates how fundamental principles of design apply to the web
Includes charts, diagrams, and graphics to enhance learning and retention
Covers site analysis, navigation, layout, color, graphics, typography and forms
Demonstrates multiple techniques for getting just the right look and feel for your web sites
Focuses on the characteristics that make sites usable, engaging, and memorable
While Adobe Photoshop is the standard application for editing images for print, its powerful features also make it useful for editing images placed on the Internet. Web Designer’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop goes beyond an explanation of creating and editing images by focusing on the next step in web development: placing images and graphics into working web pages. Whether your goal is to expand your professional skills or simply handle your local club’s website, this book will help you not only create web pages but also get them working properly on the World Wide Web.
Learn how to:
• Work with layers, layer styles, and patterns.
• Create shapes with selections.
• Combine and crop images.
• Create web buttons, headers, and backgrounds.
• Add content to a web page using Macromedia Dreamweaver.
• Design web pages of various styles.
Dreamweaver CS3 For Dummies
Packed with the latest Dreamweaver tips and techniques
Get up to speed fast and start creating dynamite Web sites!
Do you want to create a sophisticated Web site that's easy to develop and maintain? Whether you're a beginner or an experienced Web developer, this friendly guide shows you how to utilize Dreamweaver's newest enhancements to build and manage state-of-the-art, professional Web sites quickly and easily.
* Set up your site and create new pages
* Work with text, graphics, and links
* Define and apply styles using CSS
* Add audio, video, and Flash(r) files to your site
* Use Dreamweaver'sdatabase features
Danny Goodman ,"JavaScript Bible, Gold Edition"
Wiley|33mb|PDF | 1600 pages | July 2001|rar|English
The JavaScript Bible, Gold Edition covers the new powerful functionality JavaScript gains with the release of the new fifth generation revisions of Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. The book includes all the great content included in the JavaScript Bible, 4th Edition, an international bestseller, plus over 400 pages of new material. The Gold Bible features essential new JavaScript information, additional ready -to-use JavaScript applications and scores of additional JavaScripts and Web page routines.
This book will bring programmers and non-technical professionals, including casual programmers and scripters, painlessly up to speed on all aspects of mastering JavaScript. Key topics include programming fundamentals, JavaScript language elements and how to use them effectively, and how to easily and efficiently add powerful new functionality to HTML documents and Java applets. The JavaScript Bible, Gold Edition also comes with a Windows/Mac CD-ROM which includes over 100 sample scripts, on -screen quick-reference, and hundreds of megabytes of usable Web design elements and software.
• Updated for the most recent tools, techniques, and standards for creating cutting-edge Web sites for businesses or personal use, this book is one-stop shopping for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, tables, forms, Flash, and more
• Brand-new chapters cover Ajax, Adobe CS3 tools, RSS, and blogging tools
• Hands-on guidance and expert advice dive into such topics as creating and editing images and graphics, adding multimedia elements (e.g., Flash animations, audio, and video), creating stores for Yahoo! and Amazon.com, designing auction pages for eBay, and building blogs