Tech Library
Algorithms of the Intelligent Web ****
Haralambos Marmanis and Dmitry Babenko
Web 2.0 applications provide a rich user experience, but the parts you can't see are just as important-and impressive. They use powerful techniques to process information intelligently and offer features based on patterns and relationships in data. A...
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...
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...
JQuery in Action ****
Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz
A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionals alike-fall in love with jQuery the minute the...
JQuery: Novice to Ninja ****
Earle Castledine and Craig Sharkie
jQuery: Novice to Ninja is a compilation of best-practice jQuery solutions to meet the most challenging JavaScript problems. In this question-and-answer book on jQuery, you'll find a cookbook of ready-to-go solutions to help breathe life into your we...
Non-Designer's Design Book, The ****
Robin Williams
A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one plac...
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/...
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...
Silverlight Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach *****
Jit Ghosh and Rob Cameron
Silverlight Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition is your practical companion to developing rich, interactive web applications with Microsoft’s latest technology. This book tackles common problems and scenarios that on-the-job develope...
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...
Undercover User Experience Design ****
Cennydd Bowles and James Box
From the Back CoverOnce you catch the user experience bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong way, websites don[HTML_REMOVED]t work, and companies don[HTML_REMOVED]t seem to care. And while anyone can learn the UX remedies: usability testing, pe...
