| Drupal for Designers Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:11 AM PDT 
Book Description Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick. This book is a compilation of three short guides—Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers—plus exclusive “director's material.” If you're familiar with HTML and CSS, but struggling with Drupal's learning curve, this is the book you've been looking for. - Learn how to work user-centered design practices into Drupal projects
- Choose the right modules for your project, and discover several go-to modules
- Use strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
- Manage Drupal's markup, including code generated by the powerful Views module
- Learn how to work with Drupal on the command line
- Set up your development environment and collaborate with other designers and developers
- Learn the basics of Git, the free open source version control system
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Some Things to Remember About Working with Drupal Part I: Discovery and User Experience
Chapter 2. Setting the Stage—Discovery and User Experience
Chapter 3. User Experience—Techniques for Drupal
Chapter 4. Putting It in Practice—A Short-Form Project Brief Part II: Sketching, Visual Design, and Layout
Chapter 5. Sketch Many, Show One
Chapter 6. Working with Layout Grids
Chapter 7. Putting It in Practice—Setting Up Fireworks Templates for Drupal Part III: Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Chapter 8. The Drupal Designer's Coding Toolkit
Chapter 9. Installing Drush
Chapter 10. Getting Started with Git
Chapter 11. Putting It in Practice—Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal Part IV: Prototyping in Drupal
Chapter 12. Prototyping in Drupal
Chapter 13. Choosing Modules
Chapter 14. Making Views Sing—Using Views to Enhance a Layout
Chapter 15. Making Views Sing—Controlling Views Markup
Chapter 16. Getting Started with Drupal Theming: Base and Child Themes
Chapter 17. Making CSS Easier with LESS Part V: Making It Easier to Start Projects
Chapter 18. Using Features
Chapter 19. Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles Part VI: Working with Clients
Chapter 20. Proposing and Estimating Projects
Chapter 21. Getting Clients to Love You, Even When You Have to Tell Them "No"
Chapter 22. After the Handoff—The Project Retrospective Part VII: Sample Documents
Appendix A. Project Brief
Appendix B. Work Agreement (with Professional Relationship Clause)
Appendix C. Project Proposal Book Details - Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (July 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449325041
- ISBN-13: 978-1449325046
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| Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:07 AM PDT 
Book Description Dreamweaver CS6 is the most capable website design and management program yet, but there's no printed guide to its amazing features. That's where Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual comes in. You'll learn to use every facet of this versatile program, through jargon-free explanations and 13 hands-on tutorials. The important stuff you need to know: - Get A to Z guidance. Go from building simple web pages to creating rich, interactive websites.
- Learn state-of-the-art design. Create dynamic, visually appealing sites using JavaScript and CSS, and see how HTML5 and CSS3 fit in.
- Add instant interactivity. Use Dreamweaver's unique Spry technology to easily add complex layout options, like drop-down menus.
- Use timesaving features. Take advantage of Dreamweaver's libraries, templates, and hundreds of extensions.
- Go mobile. Design sites for smartphones, tablets, and desktop PCs, using the same HTML.
- Simplify site management. Check for broken links, streamline site-wide changes, and reorganize your site in a snap.
Table of Contents
Part I: Building a Web Page
Chapter 1. Dreamweaver CS6 Guided Tour
Chapter 2. Adding and Formatting Text
Chapter 3. Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
Chapter 4. Links
Chapter 5. Images
Chapter 6. Tables
Chapter 7. HTML: Under the Hood Part II: Building a Better Web Page
Chapter 8. Advanced CSS
Chapter 9. Page Layout
Chapter 10. Troubleshooting CSS
Chapter 11. Designing Websites for Mobile Devices Part III: Bringing Your Pages to Life
Chapter 12. Forms
Chapter 13. Adding Interactivity with JavaScript
Chapter 14. Add Flash and Other Multimedia Part IV: Managing a Website
Chapter 15. Introducing Site Management
Chapter 16. Testing Your Site
Chapter 17. Moving Your Site to the Internet Part V: Dreamweaver CS6 Power
Chapter 18. Snippets and Libraries
Chapter 19. Templates
Chapter 20. Find and Replace
Chapter 21. Customizing Dreamweaver
Chapter 22. Working with Server-Side Programming Appendix A. Getting Help
Appendix B. Dreamweaver CS6, Menu by Menu Book Details - Paperback: 1032 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (July 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449316174
- ISBN-13: 978-1449316174
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| The Data Journalism Handbook Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:59 AM PDT 
Book Description When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist's “nose for news” and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you'll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field. This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the project at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques from leading journalists, professors, software developers, and data analysts, you'll learn how data can be either the source of data journalism or a tool with which the story is told—or both. - Examine the use of data journalism at the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and other news organizations
- Explore in-depth case studies on elections, riots, school performance, and corruption
- Learn how to find data from the Web, through freedom of information laws, and by “crowd sourcing”
- Extract information from raw data with tips for working with numbers and statistics and using data visualization
- Deliver data through infographics, news apps, open data platforms, and download links
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. In The Newsroom
Chapter 3. Case Studies
Chapter 4. Getting Data
Chapter 5. Understanding Data
Chapter 6. Delivering Data Book Details - Paperback: 242 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (July 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449330061
- ISBN-13: 978-1449330064
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| LED Lighting: A Primer to Lighting the Future Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:54 AM PDT 
Book Description We're on the brink of a lighting revolution with light-emitting diodes—the tiny LEDs you've seen in electronic devices for years. With this practical guide, you'll go behind the scenes to see how and why manufacturers are now designing LED devices to light everything from homes and offices to streets and warehouses. Author Sal Cangeloso shows you the working parts of a "simple" LED bulb and explains the challenges electronics companies face as they push LED lighting into the mainstream. You'll learn how you can use LEDs now, and why solid state lighting will bring dramatic changes in the near future. - Explore the drivers, phosphors, and integrated circuits in a typical LED bulb
- Understand the challenges in producing LED bulbs with acceptable brightness, color temperature, and power consumption
- Learn about non-bulb LED applications, including lamps, street lights, and signage
- Discover the market forces driving—and impeding—the adoption of LED lighting
- Compare LEDs to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and electron-stimulated luminescence (ESL) bulbs
- Gaze into the future of intelligent lighting, including networked lighting systems
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Opening Remarks
Chapter 2. Key Terms
Chapter 3. LED Basics
Chapter 4. The Bulb
Chapter 5. Non-Bulb Lighting
Chapter 6. Buying an LED Bulb
Chapter 7. Throw Out My CFL?
Chapter 8. Do LEDs Make Sense Today?
Chapter 9. LED Lighting Today and Tomorrow
Chapter 10. The Future
Appendix. DIY LEDs Book Details - Paperback: 70 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (July 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449334768
- ISBN-13: 978-1449334765
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