Web Design Bibliography

Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type, Second Edition
    By Jim Felici
    Adobe Press, July 2011
    ISBN: 9780132821926
    416 pages, $49.99

    Beautifully designed and richly illustrated this book is the fully updated version of THE seminal book on typography by Jim Felici. This book is about how type should look and how to make it look that way; in other words, how to set type like a professional. It explains in practical terms how to use today’s digital tools to achieve the secret of good design: well set type. An essential reference for anyone who works with type: designers, print production professionals, and corporate communications managers can go to straight to the index to find focused answers to specific questions, while educators and students can read it as a text book from cover to cover.
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    HTML5 and JavaScript Projects
    By Jeanine Meyer
    Apress, October 2011
    ISBN: 9781430240327
    448 pages, $39.99

    This book covers the most important areas of HTML5 that you’ll want to know how to program, including: video, and audio, databases, localStorage, and geolocation. The projects have been carefully selected to help you build your HTML5 and JavaScript programming skills. You’ll build games and applications, such as video jigsaws, recipe archives, paper dolls, and many more captivating examples. You’ll discover line-by-line explanations for every single line of code—making sure that you can fully understand what each line of code does, so that you can easily take that understanding and apply it to your own HTML5 projects.
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    Beginning JavaScript, Fourth Edition
    By Paul Wilton; Jeremy McPeak
    Wrox, October 2009
    ISBN: 9780470525937
    788 pages, $39.99

    This book give you coverage of Ajax for remote scripting, JavaScript frameworks, JavaScript and XML, and the latest features in modern Web browsers. Plus, all of the featured code has been updated to ensure compliance with the most recent popular Web browsers. It features new coverage of data types and variables, JavaScript and XML, Ajax for remote scripting, and popular JavaScript frameworks. It gets you up to speed on all the new advances in JavaScript development.
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    HTML5 Now: A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Getting Started Today
    By Tantek Celik
    New Riders, July 2010
    ISBN: 9780132480543
    2 hours 43 minutes, $44.99

    Browsers like Firefox and Safari, and numerous mobile devices (Apple iPhone, Google Android, Palm Pre) all have some support for HTML5 - but it’s not obvious what you can use. That’s where this video steps in. It delivers a solid introduction to HTML5 and how to get started today. The video provides instruction, examples, and explanations to get started with using HTML5 immediately, both in new projects, and how to transition existing HTML and XHTML pages to HTML5. All this is explained in ways that are compatible with existing browsers and shows authors how to progressively take advantage of new support in modern browsers and devices.
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    Stunning CSS3: A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS
    By Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
    New Riders, December 2010
    ISBN: 9780132366847
    320 pages, $44.99

    This book uses a project-based approach and step-by-step instructions to teach designers how to create cutting-edge web sites that take advantage of some of the exciting new features of CSS3. Each chapter demonstrates a standalone web design technique that can be integrated into any project you are working on. You will learn the most popular and well-supported current CSS 3 techniques, including instructions on how to accommodate older browsers, plus some CSS3 techniques that will be available in future browser versions.
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    Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates
    By Clint Eccher
    Course Technology PTR, June 2010
    ISBN: 9781435457157
    923 pages, $49.99

    Each chapter in this book is laid out as a complete tutorial that shows you how to use the amazing new Photoshop CS5 features to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. With the skills you learn, you’ll be able to spend more time working on the creative side of your art, rather than worrying about the challenges of the technical aspects of the