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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People ****
Susan Weinschenk
We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphaz...

3D Game Development With Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner's Guide ****
Gastón C. Hillar
This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete interactive 3D game using Silverlight and enhancing it through its related technologies. The book focuses on practical examples and has a friendly approach, with the opportunity to learn ...

Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL
Kevin Yank
Build Your own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven web site using PHP & MySQL. This book covers everything f...

Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes ****
Allan Cole and Raena Jackson Armitage and Brandon R. Jones and Jeffrey Way
About the AuthorAllan Cole is a web designer and developer based in Brooklyn, NY and is widely known as a Thematic framework guru. He specializes in front-end user experience and WordPress customization.Raena Jackson Armitage is an Australian web dev...

Concrete5 Beginner's Guide ****
Remo Laubacher
This book is part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series. You will be guided through the set up of a Concrete5 site with step-by-step practical examples. This book is ideal for developers who would like to build their first site with Concrete5. Some know...

Distinctive Design: A Practical Guide to a Useful, Beautiful Web ***
Alexander Dawson
Review'A solid in-depth guide to the world of UX design, exploring design theory, psychology and more' - Six Revisions ‘get your site noticed with this title' Web Designer From the Back CoverStanding out from the crowdProducing website designs that s...

GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications ****
Scott Davis
There is a hidden revolution going on: geography is moving from niche to the mainstream. News reports routinely include maps and satellite images. More and more pieces of equipment cell phones, cars, computers now contain Global Positioning System (G...

Head First Web Design ****
Ethan Watrall and Jeff Siarto
Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? Head First Web Design is ...

Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers **
Bethany Hiitola
About the AuthorBethany HiitolaBethany Hiitola is a working writer. She's worked as a technical writer and multimedia developer for over 12 years and spends the rest of her time as a wife, mother, caretaker to pets, and Master of the household. She's...

Map Scripting 101: An Example-Driven Guide to Building Interactive Maps With Bing, Yahoo!, and Google Maps ****
Adam DuVander
Websites like MapQuest and Google Maps have transformed the way we think about maps. But these services do more than offer driving directionsthey provide APIs that web developers can use to build highly customized map-based applications. In Map Scrip...

OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide ****
Erik Hazzard
Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating, and delivering maps on the World Wide Web and its products. OpenLayers is a powerful, community driven, open source, pure JavaScript web mapping library. With it, you can easily creat...

Pro .NET 2.0 Code and Design Standards in C# ***
Mark Horner
This book is special, because for the first time you get an easy-to-follow set of code and design standards that addresses the basic needs of .NET developers and application architects. The material is presented in a "what, why, where, and how" forma...

Professional ASP.Net Design Patterns ***
Scott Millett
This unique book takes good ASP.NET (MVC/Webforms) application construction one step further by emphasizing loosely coupled and highly cohesive ASP.NET web application architectural design. Each chapteraddresses a layer in an enterprise ASP.NET (MVC/...

Programming ASP.NET MVC 4: Developing Real-World Web Applications With ASP.NET MVC **
Jess Chadwick and Todd Snyder and Hrusikesh Panda
Learn how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework, using powerful architecture patterns, and modern web technologies such as HTML 5 and jQuery. With this hands-on guide, you’ll gain a complete understanding of this framework w...

Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces That Work ***
Elliot Jay Stocks
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 princi...

Silverlight 4 in Action
Pete Brown
Silverlight 3 in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial that guides the reader from creating "Hello World" to coding production-quality, data-driven rich internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Written for a developer w...

Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout
Eric Meyer
PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR MODERN LAYOUTSmashing CSS takes you well beyond the basics, covering not only the finer points of layout and effects, but introduces you to the future with HTML5 and CSS3. Very few in the industry can show you the ins and ...

Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful ***
Thord Daniel Hedengren
Review'Discover the gentle art of hacking WordPress Themes to make them look and work the way you want.' (Web Designer, April 2011). ‘...definitely a good one for theme development starters'. (Theme.fm, June 2011). From the Back CoverMaking WordPress...

Website Design and Development: 100 Questions to Ask Before Building a Website ****
George Plumley
The book is comprised of a series of questions about the reader’s website, with answers averaging 3-5 pages in length. The answers will be liberally illustrated and will contain short prescriptions at the end - action points - with comments about wh...

XAML Developer Reference ****
Mamta Dalal and Microsoft Press and Ashish Ghoda
Sharpen your application development skills with XAML-the markup language used in Microsoft® Silverlight®, Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Phone 7. Led by expert authors, you'll learn practical ways to develop rich user interfaces...