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A review by Web Teacher of Web Design for Developers: A Programmer’s Guide to Design Tools and Techniques (Pragmatic Programmers)
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Web Design for Developers: A Programmers Guide to Design Tools and Techniques by Brian P. Hogan, is, as the title suggests, aimed at developers rather than at designers. In just over 300 pages, Hogan [...]
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The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever
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The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever by Cliff Atkinson is from New Riders (2010). Cliff Atkinson is telling stories. He takes real people, real presentations, and weaves [...]
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Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, Video Edition (includes Handcrafted CSS book and Handcrafted CSS: Bulletproof Essentials DVD)
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Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte is from New Riders (2010). It’s a beautiful book designed by Cederholm himself. Most of it was written by [...]
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Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is from Sitepoint Book (2009). This is really an excellent little book. It gives you tips on planning and designing a form that is both attractive and usable. It provides information on structuring the form using standards-based [...]
I’m not going to review Microformats Made Simple here because the author is a friend, I’m mentioned in a few places in the book, and I could not write an unbiased review. Add to that the fact that I think the author is awesomeness electrified, one of the women in tech to keep an eye [...]
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CSS: The Missing Manual (Amazon.com affiliate link)
★★★★ CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland is from O’Reilly (2009). The books in the missing manual series are always dependable resources, and this book is no exception. The book isn’t a big wow. It isn’t bad. It’s somewhere in the middle where solid [...]
Teach Naked. What do you think about this idea as a way to teach web design or web development classes? You definitely need a computer lab, but how about the idea for lecture delivery and class discussion?
Sony Plans to Adopt a Common Format for eBooks. This may finally bring the lower priced competition to the [...]
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Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript (Amazon affiliate link)
★★★★★ Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript by Jonathan Lane, Meitar Moscovitz and Joseph R. Lewis is from Friends of ED (2008). I recommend this book. It is not the usual heavy dose of XHTML and CSS that I [...]
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HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas’ Approach (Amazon affiliate link)
★★★★ HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas’ Approach by Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson is from Friends of ED (2009). The thing I like most about this book is also the thing I like least about it. [...]
A review of Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way Using HTML and CSS by Ian Lloyd is from Sitepoint (2008). More . . .
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