Web design has come a long way in just over a decade. The concerns facing anyone working on Web sites are so complex and changing so rapidly that it’s downright overwhelming. From a consumer perspective, Web designs and redesigns can be very expensive. The goal of this book is to provide you with all the top-flight infor¬mation you need to know to get up to speed with the best practices and standards being used by today’s practical but progressive Web sites such as ESPN and Wired News. We all need help to improve workflow, develop rich designs that can be accessed by numerous browsers and alternative devices such as cell phones and PDAs, create sites that meet legal concerns regarding content and accessibility, managing sites for the long term, and improve the financial bottom line by signif¬icantly reducing bandwidth and increasing revenue.
Most likely you are a person who is working on public or private Web sites and is somewhat experienced with HTML and Web graphic design and are interested in ramping up to the next level of expertise. If you’re like me, you want to make your life easier by streamlining the design process and management, and increasing awareness and promotion of the sites you design and develop. Your primary job might not even be that of a Web designer—perhaps you are a scientist, librarian, documentation specialist, promotions specialist, educator, or serving in the armed forces. The people working on Web sites at this point in history come from a very wide range of backgrounds and professions, and we come from all parts of the globe. Some readers will be avid hobbyists, too, using the Web as a means for self-expression via Weblogs, social networks, and special interest groups.
250 HTML and Web Design Secrets looks into the detailed work required to create successful Web sites and provides extremely up-to-date approaches to dealing with an array of challenges that the creation of Web sites presents. Technologies and top¬ics covered include tools, project management, information architecture, usability, content development and management, HTML, XHTML, and CSS, graphics and multimedia for the Web, accessibility, best uses of dynamic content and rich me¬dia, keeping content fresh, improving site ranking and promotions, and managing redesigns.
Using This Book
Focusing on theory, standards, and rigid practices is, in a word, dry. 250 HTML and Web Design Secrets takes a fresh and fun approach, providing insider techniques that will help designers get the information they need.
Instead of teaching individual languages or technologies, the lessons here are broken down into specific “secrets” that will help you immediately improve your current sites; help you build new sites that are visually exciting, extremely portable, and cross-platform compatible; help you manage redesigns; and take your sites from the past into a successful future. Another unique quality of the “Secrets” format of this book is that while it’s written to be read from start to finish, it can also be used as a quick reference when you’re facing a specific problem.
The book consists of 15 chapters broken into three parts: “Tools, Planning, and Content;” “HTML, XHTML, CSS and Accessibility;” and “Designing Sites for Long-Term Success.” There are also three appendices to help you get more re¬sources for Web site service provision, application, and database technologies, and references of a wide range of helpful Web sites, articles, books, and organiza¬tions that can help you constantly challenge and improve your skills beyond the scope of this book.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
55 Ways To Have Fun With Google (2006)
1. Egogoogling: Susan Is
2. The Google Snake Game
3. Memecodes: Survival of the Fittest Web Pages
4. The Google Irritation Game, and the Google Image Quiz
5. Googling Proverbs
6. Browsing Images of a Site
7. A Brief History of Googlesport
8. What is Google, and what do people consider fun about it?
9. How Much Time Google Saves Us
10. Google Cookin’ a Lemon Chicken
11. Douglas Adams and the Google Calculator
12. Oops, I Googled Again
13. The Disappearing Google Logo, a Magic Trick
14. Fun With Google Maps, the Wiki Way
15. Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack
16. Google Q&A
17. Celebrate Google Non-Weddings, and More
18. Design Your SketchUp Dream House
19. Kevin Bacon and the Google Network
20. The Google Alphabet
21. Google Search Tips
22. Googlepark
23. Googleshare
24. The Shortest Google Search (and the One Returning the Most Results)
25. Google Rotated and Mini Google
26. The Google Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Google?.82
27. Recreate Google From Memory
28. The Strange World of Google News
29. Aliens Attack Google!
30. Top Ten Signs You Are Addicted to Google
31. Dig a Hole Through Earth
32. Googlebombing
33. Google Ads Gone Wrong
34. Life in the Age of Google
35. Google Hacking
36. Googlepolls: Ask the Crowd
37. Googlefights
38. What If Google Was Evil? Plus: Five Inventions of the Google Future
39. The Google Adventure Game
40. Egobot, Voice of the Web
41. Fun Google Gadgets
42. Forty-Two, or: A Science-Fiction Interlude
43. The Google Book of World Records
44. Spelling Errors Galore
45. Google Groups, Time Machine
46. Growing a Google Word
47. Most Popular Words, and PopSents
48. Create Google Poetry, Prose, and Collages
49. Funny Google Videos
50. The Realplayer Fish, or: Telling a Story in Synonyms
51. Google Parodies
52. The Google Images Prediction Trick
53. Fun With Google Translations
54. The Giant Google Painting
55. Googledromes
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Dreamweaver 8 - All in one Desk Reference
This is a reference book, which means you can jump around from chapter to chapter reading whatever section you want as the need arises. Don’t feel locked into the idea of reading the book from cover to cover. In fact, think of each minibook as its own little reference zone where each zone is split into chapters about performing specific tasks in Dreamweaver 8.
Everything you find in this book is written so you don’t have to wade through complicated technical help files or have to commit anything to memory. Tokeep things simple, you’ll find detailed, step-by-step, easy-to-follow instruc¬tions. When more technical information is needed to clarify a particular process, it’s often set apart from the main text in sidebars or noted in the margins with a Technical Stuff icon.
The bottom line is that we want to make you comfortable with Dreamweaver 8 and hope that you’ll continue to use this book frequently and consider it the main resource of your Web-design library.
Conventions Used in This Book
To help with new terms and concepts, the following typographical rules or conventions are used in this book:
♦ New terms: New terms are set apart with italics. For example:
Dreamweaver 8 comes with the commonly used JavaScripts, which it refers to as behaviors, ready to insert into your pages from the Behaviors panel.
♦ Code samples: We include short code samples in monospaced text within the paragraph, like this: . We set longer code samples apart from the text, like this:
For the times when we want to draw your attention to particular parts of code samples, we indicate the important parts in bold, as in this example:
.
♦ Reader entry: Anything you need to type is in boldface.
♦ Cross-platform: Whenever PCs and Macs have different shortcuts, we include both the Windows equivalent (right-click) and the Mac equiva¬lent (Control+click).
♦ Web addresses: Web addresses are set apart in monofont, such as
www.macromedia.com.
What You Don’t Have to Read
You don’t have to read any part of this book that doesn’t interest you. For example, if you never intend to use Fireworks, skip that chapter! And if you see a technical sidebar that covers more technical information than you care to know, pass it by. The main thing is that you know what is available and only read what is useful to you.
How This Book Is Organized
This book is divided into nine minibooks, each of which is further divided into relevant chapters organized by topic. Each minibook relates to the most important concepts in Dreamweaver.
Book I: Getting Started
Begin your trip into the world of Web design with a look around the Dreamweaver workspace and a review of site design. Then find out how to create and manage sites in Dreamweaver — an important step that enables you to take full advantage of Dreamweaver’s automated features.
Book II: Mastering the Basics
Book II shows you everything you need to know to create new documents; add and format text on a page; insert graphics and create rollover buttons; convert text and graphics into clickable links to other Web pages; add movies, sound, and other media files to your pages; add tables for organizing content; and build fantastic forms for collecting data from visitors.
Book III: Working Like the Pros
Book III walks you through the process of styling your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), building sites using Dreamweaver templates, and using Library items. You also find out about using server-side includes, creating and using code snippets, and recording and saving custom commands with the History panel. The final chapter in this minibook contains information on using Dreamweaver with Fireworks for roundtrip image optimization.
Book IV: Energizing Your Site
When you’re ready to add more zing and pizzazz to your pages, turn to Book IV. Here you find out how to work with layers instead of tables, create oppor¬tunities for visitor interactivity by adding JavaScript behaviors to objects onyour pages, and design pages built with frames. The final chapter in this minibook shows you all about the benefits of XHTML and how to configure Dreamweaver to write XHTML-compliant code.
Book V: Publishing Your Site
Book V shows you how to run Dreamweaver’s reports and use other tools to test and fix any errors before you publish your site. You also find out how to select and set up a remote connection to your host server and transfer files to the remote site.
Book VI: Working Collaboratively
Macromedia’s Contribute 3 is a software program that allows nondesigners to edit and update content on live Web pages through a special interface — all without needing to know any HTML or Dreamweaver. Book VI contains information on setting up, connecting to, and managing a Contribute site.
Book VII: Building Web Applications
This minibook discusses how to select and add Web and application servers along with how to configure, edit, and delete database connections. When working with databases, troubleshooting problems is important, so we also discuss resolving permission problems, database connection issues, and error messages.
Book VIII: Making Pages Dynamic
In this minibook, you find out how to define data sources and make them available for use in your dynamic pages. We also show you how to add simple dynamic data to your Web pages, as well as create HTML tables for your recordsets, navigate through your recordsets, and dynamically control them. In addition, you discover how to test the functionality of your dynamic site by using Dreamweaver’s Live Data view. This minibook also includes a chapter on working with ColdFusion components, adding Web services to your site, and putting custom server behaviors to work.
Book IX: Developing Applications Rapidly
Book IX shows you how to build master and detail pages, search and results pages, and record insert, update, and delete pages. We also get into more complicated territory, such as calling ASP command objects, working with JSP prepared statements, and using stored procedures. Finally, you find out how to restrict site access.
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Everything you find in this book is written so you don’t have to wade through complicated technical help files or have to commit anything to memory. Tokeep things simple, you’ll find detailed, step-by-step, easy-to-follow instruc¬tions. When more technical information is needed to clarify a particular process, it’s often set apart from the main text in sidebars or noted in the margins with a Technical Stuff icon.
The bottom line is that we want to make you comfortable with Dreamweaver 8 and hope that you’ll continue to use this book frequently and consider it the main resource of your Web-design library.
Conventions Used in This Book
To help with new terms and concepts, the following typographical rules or conventions are used in this book:
♦ New terms: New terms are set apart with italics. For example:
Dreamweaver 8 comes with the commonly used JavaScripts, which it refers to as behaviors, ready to insert into your pages from the Behaviors panel.
♦ Code samples: We include short code samples in monospaced text within the paragraph, like this: . We set longer code samples apart from the text, like this:
For the times when we want to draw your attention to particular parts of code samples, we indicate the important parts in bold, as in this example:
.
♦ Reader entry: Anything you need to type is in boldface.
♦ Cross-platform: Whenever PCs and Macs have different shortcuts, we include both the Windows equivalent (right-click) and the Mac equiva¬lent (Control+click).
♦ Web addresses: Web addresses are set apart in monofont, such as
www.macromedia.com.
What You Don’t Have to Read
You don’t have to read any part of this book that doesn’t interest you. For example, if you never intend to use Fireworks, skip that chapter! And if you see a technical sidebar that covers more technical information than you care to know, pass it by. The main thing is that you know what is available and only read what is useful to you.
How This Book Is Organized
This book is divided into nine minibooks, each of which is further divided into relevant chapters organized by topic. Each minibook relates to the most important concepts in Dreamweaver.
Book I: Getting Started
Begin your trip into the world of Web design with a look around the Dreamweaver workspace and a review of site design. Then find out how to create and manage sites in Dreamweaver — an important step that enables you to take full advantage of Dreamweaver’s automated features.
Book II: Mastering the Basics
Book II shows you everything you need to know to create new documents; add and format text on a page; insert graphics and create rollover buttons; convert text and graphics into clickable links to other Web pages; add movies, sound, and other media files to your pages; add tables for organizing content; and build fantastic forms for collecting data from visitors.
Book III: Working Like the Pros
Book III walks you through the process of styling your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), building sites using Dreamweaver templates, and using Library items. You also find out about using server-side includes, creating and using code snippets, and recording and saving custom commands with the History panel. The final chapter in this minibook contains information on using Dreamweaver with Fireworks for roundtrip image optimization.
Book IV: Energizing Your Site
When you’re ready to add more zing and pizzazz to your pages, turn to Book IV. Here you find out how to work with layers instead of tables, create oppor¬tunities for visitor interactivity by adding JavaScript behaviors to objects onyour pages, and design pages built with frames. The final chapter in this minibook shows you all about the benefits of XHTML and how to configure Dreamweaver to write XHTML-compliant code.
Book V: Publishing Your Site
Book V shows you how to run Dreamweaver’s reports and use other tools to test and fix any errors before you publish your site. You also find out how to select and set up a remote connection to your host server and transfer files to the remote site.
Book VI: Working Collaboratively
Macromedia’s Contribute 3 is a software program that allows nondesigners to edit and update content on live Web pages through a special interface — all without needing to know any HTML or Dreamweaver. Book VI contains information on setting up, connecting to, and managing a Contribute site.
Book VII: Building Web Applications
This minibook discusses how to select and add Web and application servers along with how to configure, edit, and delete database connections. When working with databases, troubleshooting problems is important, so we also discuss resolving permission problems, database connection issues, and error messages.
Book VIII: Making Pages Dynamic
In this minibook, you find out how to define data sources and make them available for use in your dynamic pages. We also show you how to add simple dynamic data to your Web pages, as well as create HTML tables for your recordsets, navigate through your recordsets, and dynamically control them. In addition, you discover how to test the functionality of your dynamic site by using Dreamweaver’s Live Data view. This minibook also includes a chapter on working with ColdFusion components, adding Web services to your site, and putting custom server behaviors to work.
Book IX: Developing Applications Rapidly
Book IX shows you how to build master and detail pages, search and results pages, and record insert, update, and delete pages. We also get into more complicated territory, such as calling ASP command objects, working with JSP prepared statements, and using stored procedures. Finally, you find out how to restrict site access.
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