Friday, November 28, 2008
by Web Teacher product Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★★ Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One by Deke McClelland is from Deke Press | O’Reilly (2008). This is a full-color book with excellent illustrations for every step of instruction. In addition, there are 4 hours of video lessons from lynda.com with Deke McClelland. Deke McClelland [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
by Web Teacher product Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★ Web Development & Design Foundations with XHTML (4th Edition) by Terry Felke-Morris is from Addison Wesley (2008). This book is 100% courseware, a complete curriculum with project files, test and discussion questions, careful planning of objectives and learning activities, and [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
by Web Teacher product Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★★ Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank is from Sitepoint (2008). It’s a small book of little more than 100 pages. It’s mainly about various CSS display properties that create a table layout appearance. [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
by Web Teacher product The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers ★★★★ The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers by Derrick Story is from O’Reilly (2008). It’s a small reference book that concentrates on the workflow for photographers using Photoshop CS4. It explains basic adjustments such as cropping, color balance, and tonal adjustments. It also details more [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Everyone has heard of search engine optimization, right? But have you heard of findability? I hadn’t, until recently. The term “findability” seems to originate with Peter Morville, who published a book called Ambient Findability in 2002. Blogger DonnaM wrote about it in 2004 in Usability testing for findability. Jakob Neilsen wrote about it in 2006 [...]
Filed in AJAX, BlogHer, BookReview, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, SearchEngines, WebDesign, WebStandards, accessibility, blogging, design, microformats
|
Friday, September 12, 2008
by Web Teacher product Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets ★★★★ Website Optimization by Andrew B. King is from O’Reilly (2008). The title refers to optimizing speed, ease of use, search engine friendliness, and return on investment. There’s a lot of information in the book about how to market your site and [...]
Reviewed by Web Teacher product Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 (Voices That Matter) ★★★★ Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 by Stephanie Sullivan and Greg Rewis (New Riders, 2008) is an excellent book, which I recommend and would be happy to teach with myself. I’m giving it four stars because it’s Dreamweaver specific, even though you [...]
Reviewer: Virginia DeBolt Summary: Comprehensive resource for web graphics product Painting the Web Rating: 5/5 When I heard about Painting the Web by Shelley Powers (O’Reilly, 2008) I had the idea that it would be only about SVG. I read the author’s blog at Burningbird and a number of posts about SVG on her blog [...]
Reviewer: Virginia DeBolt Summary: A Valuable Resource product The Ultimate CSS Reference Rating: 5/5 The Ultimate CSS Reference is by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien (Sitepoint, 2008). It’s a hardcover book, which is unusual. Since the book covers some of CSS3, perhaps the hard cover is justified because the publisher considers it a book that [...]
May 9, 2008 by Web Teacher product Hackerteen: Volume 1: Internet Blackout ★★★ Internet Blackout by Marcelo Marquez is Volume 1 of O’Reilly’s new Hackerteen series. It’s a graphic novel, O’Reilly’s first effort in the young reader market. The plot of the story involves Yago and his friends and their experiences with victimization and Internet [...]
RSS Feeds
