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- The PayPal Official Insider Guide to Mobile Profits
- Writing for the Web: Creating Compelling Web Content Using Words, Pictures, and Sound
- Photographically Speaking: A Deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images
- Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design
- Adobe Business Catalyst: Design full-featured websites without the hassles of development
| The PayPal Official Insider Guide to Mobile Profits Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:11 AM PST
Book DescriptionMobile commerce opportunities are everywhere people go, 24/7. And PayPal is in the forefront of harnessing those opportunities, offering mobile businesses faster, easier, safer, and more positive customer checkout experiences. PayPal's mobile checkout tools support profitable websites and apps on all of today's smartphones, tablets, and other portable devices. This book shows how you can implement these tools to more effectively capture this vast new revenue stream. You'll learn how to partner with PayPal to:
This expert, easy-to-follow advice–straight from those who design and build PayPal Mobile–is your direct link to effective mobile payments and business success. Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introducing the World of Mobile Commerce Mobile Information Resources Book Details
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| Writing for the Web: Creating Compelling Web Content Using Words, Pictures, and Sound Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:10 AM PST
Book DescriptionWith Writing for the Web, you'll learn everything you need to know to create effective Web content using words, pictures, and sound. Follow along as instructor and writer Lynda Felder combines easy-to-follow guidelines with photographs, lists, and tables to illustrate the key concepts behind writing nonlinear, interactive stories; creating succinct and clear copy; and working compelling images, motion graphics, and sound into your content. Many books offer instruction on how to use software programs to build Web sites, podcasts, and illustrations. But only Writing for the Web explains when and why an author might choose an illustration over a photograph, motion graphics over text, or a slice of Beethoven's Fifth over the sound of a bubbling brook. Focusing on storytelling techniques that work best for digital media, this book describes the essential skills and tools in a Web author's toolbox, including a thorough understanding of grammar and style, a critical eye for photography, and an ear for just the right sound byte for a podcast. This clearly written guide provides a fun and practical approach to Web writing that busy students and writers will be eager to learn and explore.
For more tips, exercises, and suggestions for teachers, check out the book's Web site at www.write4web.com. Book Details
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| Photographically Speaking: A Deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:10 AM PST
Book DescriptionWhen looking at a photograph, too often a conversation starts–and, unfortunately, ends–with a statement such as, "I like it." The logical next question, "Why?", often goes unasked and unanswered. As photographers, we frequently have difficulty speaking about images because, frankly, we don't know how to think about them. And if we don't know how to think about a photograph and its "visual language"– how an image is constructed, how it works, and why it works–then, when we're behind the camera, are we really making images that best communicate our vision, our original intent? Vision–crucial as it is–is not the ultimate goal of photography; expression is the goal. And to best express ourselves, it is necessary to learn and use the grammar and vocabulary of the visual language. Photographically Speaking is about learning photography's visual language to better speak to why and how a photograph succeeds, and in turn to consciously use that visual language in the creation of our own photographs, making us stronger photographers who are able to fully express and communicate our vision. By breaking up the visual language into two main components–"elements" make up its vocabulary, and "decisions" are its grammar–David duChemin transforms what has traditionally been esoteric and difficult subject matter into an accessible and practical discussion that photographers can immediately use to improve their craft. Elements are the "words" of the image, what we place within the frame–lines, curves, light, color, contrast. Decisions are the choices we make in assembling those elements to best express and communicate our vision–the use of framing, perspective, point of view, balance, focus, exposure. All content within the frame has meaning, and duChemin establishes that photographers must consciously and deliberately choose the elements that go within their frame and make the decisions about how that frame is constructed and presented. In the second half of the book, duChemin applies this methodology to his own craft, as he explores the visual language in 20 of his own images, discussing how the intentional choices of elements and decisions that went into their creation contribute to their success. Book Details
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| Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:10 AM PST
Book DescriptionIn Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications. Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you through a series of unexpected a-ha! moments that describe relationships among nature, art, science, technology, and design. Through explanation and example, you will learn about natural processes, consisting of everyday patterns and shapes that are often taken for granted, but that can be used effectively in visual messaging. Explore the principles all human beings intuitively use to understand the world and learn to incorporate nature's patterns and shapes into your work for more meaningful design. By recognizing and appreciating a broad range of relationships, you can create more aesthetic and effective design, building communications that encompass the universal experience of being part of nature, and that are relevant to a worldwide audience.
Table of Contents Section II: Matter: Understand and Create Section III: Motion: The Experience Enhanced Book Details
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| Adobe Business Catalyst: Design full-featured websites without the hassles of development Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:09 AM PST
Book DescriptionAdobe Business Catalyst is a hosted application for building and managing online businesses. Using this unified platform and without back-end coding, Web designers can build everything from amazing Websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to mini-sites. To work in BC, designers use Dreamweaver (CS4 or later) with the free Business Catalyst extension installed. The cost of hosting a site with BC ranges from a few dollars a month and up, depending on the size of the site and the level of traffic, and the designer can pass on the cost to their client. This is the first official book on using BC. In this comprehensive, hands-on, step-by-step guide, the reader will learn how to set up eCommerce on the hosted solution. As they work through the chapters, the readers can also follow along with the video tutorials linked in from AdobeTV (tv.adobe.com). This book covers how to set up a new site, work with web pages, organize the site hierarchy, upload assets via FTP, configure modules, and customize their appearance. It includes best practices to set up site navigation, forums, password-protected areas and web forms. By the end, the reader will have their own working online business. Once it is live, the designer or the client can use the robust reporting interface in Business Catalyst to review metrics and run custom reports in the customer database. By analyzing the data, the online store can be optimized to improve sales revenue and increase customer adoption. Table of Contents Book Details
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