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Mini-review And Competition Of Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Using Ajax, you can build Web applications with the sophistication and usability of traditional desktop applications and you can do it using standards and open source software. Now, for the first time, there's an easy, example-driven guide to Ajax for every Web and open source developer, regardless of experience.

Edmond Woychowsky begins with simple techniques involving only HTML and basic JavaScript. Then, one step at a time, he introduces techniques for building increasingly rich applications. Don't worry if you're not an expert on Ajax's underlying technologies; Woychowsky offers refreshers on them, from JavaScript to the XMLHttpRequest object. You'll also find multiple open source technologies and open standards throughout, ranging from Firefox to Ruby and MySQL.


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Mini-review And Competition Of Web Accessibility

An accessible HTML version of Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, will shortly be available to purchasers of the printed version. More details coming soon.

The power of the Web lies in the fact that anyone and everyone can access it, and this should also extend to users with disabilities. Accessibility is about making websites accessible to those with aural, visual, or physical disabilities, or rather, constructing websites that don’t exclude these people from accessing the content or services provided.

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Mini-review And Competition Of Building Websites With Joomla

This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Joomla! If you’ve never used Joomla!, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Joomla! based web site fast. You don’t have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions. This book and the freely available Joomla! are all you need. Read More

Mini-review and competition of Ajax in Action

Web users are getting tired of the traditional web experience. They get frustrated losing their scroll position; they get annoyed waiting for refresh; they struggle to reorient themselves on every new page. And the list goes on. With asynchronous JavaScript and XML, know as "Ajax, you can give them a better solution. Once users have experienced an AJAX interface, they hate to go back. Ajax is a new way of thinking that can result in a flowing and intuitive interaction for the user.

Ajax in Action helps you to implement that thinking - it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (HINT: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you.

 

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Mini-review and competition of Understanding AJAX

Already an experienced Web developer? Apply your skills in today’s fastest-growing area of Web development: AJAX!

Building on what you already know, this fast-paced guide will show you exactly how to create rich, usable Internet applications. Joshua Eichorn teaches through sophisticated code examples, including extensive server-side PHP code.

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Free! - Mini-review and competition of ImageMagick Tricks

This fast-paced and practical tutorial is packed with examples of photo manipulations, logo creation, animations, and complete web projects. With this book up your sleeve, you'll be creating spellbinding images from code in no time. Read More

Free! - Mini-review and competition of Foundation Flash 8 Video

Do you want to master Flash video work, and work your way toward creating awesome, mind-blowing, interactive web applications? Well, don't go any further—this book is all you need to step into the future.

When Flash Professional 8 was released, it seemed as if we'd embarked on a web video revolution almost overnight. Up until then, web video was a morass of competing players, technologies, standards, codecs, and playback quality. The inclusion of the On2 VP6 codec, the FLV Playback component, alpha channel video, and the Flash 8 Video Encoder has ended the infancy of web video, creating an instant benchmark with no stops in between.

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Free - The Elements of User Experience competition & mini-review

Smart organiszations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it.

But creating the user experience can seem overwhelmingly complex. With so manay issues involved - usability, brand identity, information architecture, interaction design - it can seem as if the only way to build a successful site is to spend a fortune on specialist who understand all the details.

The Elements of User Experience cuts trough the complexity of user-centered design for the Web with clear explanations and vivid illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques. Jesse James Garett gives readers the big picture of Web user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design. This accessible introduction helps any Web development team, large or small, to create a successful user experience.

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Free - Advanced ActionScript Components

Macromedia's architecture is like a chest filled with precious jewels, and this book is quite simply the key to open it! One of the most important tools provided with Flash is the Macromedia Component Architecture: a framework of components written in ActionScript 2, based on established design patterns, that provides a wealth of functionality you can just bolt on to your Flash applications when desired. This can save you an enormous amount of time during application development and help you improve the quality of your code. What’s more, the source code is included, so if you can’t find the component you need within the component architecture, you can just modify existing components to create your own! Read More

Free, an interview with Adobe's Donald Booth of the Spry development team

DMXzone.com held a special interview with Donald Booth, core member of the Adobe Spry team - developing a new fantastic AJAX technology that will propably be integrated in future Dreamweaver editions and other Adobe products. 

Spry is an AJAX based framework that has been developed specifically for web designers. Read on for an extract of the interview, you can read the complete interview in the July 2006 e-Magazine.

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Free! - Mini-review and competition of Beginning XML with DOM and AJAX

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a powerful and important data format for web developers, supported by most modern software packages, databases and web browsers. As XML underpins much of modern web development, an understanding of it and related technologies is vital for anyone working in this area. In this book, I give you everything you need to get ahead in XML. Read More

Free! - Mini-review and competition of Flash Application Design Solutions

Flash Application Design Solutions shows you how to harness the power of ActionScript 2.0 and make the most of the improved design tools of Flash 8 to create usable, intuitive Flash interfaces. Read More
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