Web Design Bibliography

jQuery to help your site run smoothly and look great across multiple web browsers, without typing a lot of code. Coverage includes: software for JavaScript programming, HTML: the barebones structure, adding CSS to style web pages, and more.
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    JavaScript Enlightenment
    By Cody Lindley
    O’Reilly Media, Inc., January 2013
    ISBN: 9781449344412
    166 pages, $14.99

    If you’re an advanced beginner or intermediate JavaScript developer, this book will solidify your understanding of the language — especially if you use a JavaScript library. In this concise book, a JavaScript expert provides an accurate view of the language by examining its objects and supporting nuances.
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    Learning jQuery, Third Edition
    By Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
    Packt Publishing, September 2011
    ISBN: 9781849516549
    428 pages, $39.99

    With this book you will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features. Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. You will also learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery’s DOM modification methods. The book will step you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.
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    Javascript Fundamentals I and II (Video Training)
    By Paul J. Deitel
    Prentice Hall, June 2009
    ISBN: 9780137045167
    14 hours 56 minutes, $149.99

    This training video will help you build world-class web applications. It begins with JavaScirpt basics, including control statements, functions, arrays, objects, events, CSS, DOM and more. Then you will master scripting with XML and RSS, and finish by learning to build rich Ajax applications. Using the instrutor’s “live-code” approach, you will analyze complete working programs, not trivial code fragments.
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    Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day: Includes New HTML5 Coverage, Sixth Edition
    By Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn
    Sams, August 2010
    ISBN: 9780672331398
    768 pages, $44.99

    This book has been revised and refined to include new detailed coverage of HTML5, the next major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. Work on the HTML5 specification is still ongoing, but parts of HTML5 are already being implemented in new versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera. Topic covered include: introducing HTML and XHTML, preparing to publish on the web, organizing information with lists, formatting text with HTML and CSS, adding images, color, and backgrounds, and more.
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    Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide, Third Edition
    By Charles Wyke-Smith
    New Riders, October 2012
    ISBN: 9780133088359
    320 pages, $44.99

    The revised edition of this book includes information on CSS3 and visual styling with rounded corners, shadows, gradients, multiple background images and more. It also explores new HTML5 tags, markup and styling techniques, audio and video, and local storage. There are easy-to-understand examples of how to use jQuery to dynamically manipulate CSS properties. Responsive design techniques show how to make content available in all devices, and progressive enhancement methods illustrate how to make pages work in older browsers. There is also coverage of grids, and @media properties for device detection.
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    JavaScript 24-Hour Trainer
    By Jeremy McPeak
    Wrox, December 2010
    ISBN: 01420110003SI
    6 hours 34 minutes, $39.99

    This unique book-and-Video package offers a new level of learning JavaScript, preparing you for the new generation of Web browser changes that are occurring on the ever-evolving Web. It also shows you how JavaScript is an essential component of those changes. Veteran author Jeremy McPeak provides you with helpful lessons in the text, and the Video offers instructional