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- 05-14-2008Mobile Web Design
- A book by Cameron Moll giving a great jumping-off point for anyone looking to get into mobile development and talks about the inevitable collision between web standards and the mobile web. Cameron provides a very well written introduction the the mobile web in a round 100 pages (which I love). It’s not long-winded like many books, it gets right to the point, and its not expensive… hightly recommend.... continue Tags: book, mobile, design
- 04-30-2008Designing Web Navigation
- While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.... continue Tags: book, design, navigation
- 04-24-2008JQuery in Action
- jQuery in Action is a fast-paced introduction and guide. It shows you how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax to your web pages. The book's unique “lab pages” anchor the explanation of each new concept in a practical example. You'll learn how jQuery interacts with other tools and frameworks and how to build jQuery plugins. This book requires a modest knowledge of JavaScript and Ajax.... continue Tags: book, javascript, ajax
- 04-13-2008Bulletproof Ajax
- Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith is published by New Riders Press in February 2007. This book is a step-by-step guide to enhancing Web sites with Ajax.... continue Tags: book, javascript, ajax
- 03-31-2008Fitts's Law
- Published in 1954, Fitts’s Law is an effective method of modeling the relationship of a very specific, yet common situation in interface design. That situation involves a human-powered appendage at rest (whether it’s physical like your finger or virtual like a mouse cursor) and a target area that’s located somewhere else.... continue Tags: mobile, user interface
- 03-20-2008Google gadgets
- Desktop gadgets are interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user's desktop – or docked in the Sidebar – to show new email, weather, photos, and personalized news. Google offers a gallery of pre-built gadgets for download on the official website. For developers, Google offers an SDK and an official blog for anyone who wants to write gadgets or plug-ins for Google Desktop.... continue Tags: desktop, widgets, javascript, xml
- 03-10-2008MoveableType
- MoveableType is a CMS that uses .cgi and Perl rather than the usual straight PHP we see for content management systems like ExpressionEngine, WordPress, Joomla, etc.... continue Tags: cms
- 10-08-2007Microformats
- This book is a comprehensive guide to microformats. It explores why, in Bill Gates's words, "We need microformats"; how microformats work; and the kinds of problems microformats help solve. the book covers every current microformat, with complete details of the syntax, semantics, and uses of each, along with real-world examples...... continue Tags: book, xhtml
- 11-10-2007High Performance Web Sites
- This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines. ... continue Tags: book, performance
- 02-15-2008Simply JavaScript
- World-renowned authors, Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams have used their exquisite skills and in-depth knowledge of JavaScript to deliver a book that teaches JavaScript with unprecedented clarity.... continue Tags: book, javascript
- 05-10-2005Don't Make Me Think
- Steve Krug's common sense approach to usability... continue Tags: book, usability
- 07-20-2007Transcending CSS
- The web has changed, and so has the art of creating web sites. Few visual designers are natural programmers, and as a result, visualizing how to work with markup, CSS and a range of programmatic techniques to create beautiful design is difficult.... continue Tags: book, css
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