Selasa, 24 Juli 2012

Wow! eBook: Drupal for Designers - 4 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Drupal for Designers - 4 new eBooks

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Drupal for Designers

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:11 AM PDT

Drupal for Designers

Book Description

Are you a solo designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with ? 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 create solid, user-centered design for the framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick.

This book is a compilation of three short guides—Planning Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Tricks for Designers—plus exclusive “director's material.” If you're familiar with and , but struggling with Drupal's learning curve, this is the book you've been looking for.

  • Learn 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 effective layouts
  • Manage Drupal's markup, including code generated by the powerful Views
  • Learn how to work with Drupal on the line
  • Set up your environment and collaborate with other designers and developers
  • Learn the basics of Git, the free 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
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 Easier with LESS

Part V: Making It Easier to Start Projects
Chapter 18. Using Features
Chapter 19. Working with 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 . 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

Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

Book Description

CS6 is the most capable design and program yet, but there's no printed guide to its amazing features. That's where CS6: The 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 pages to creating rich, interactive websites.
  • Learn state-of-the-art design. Create dynamic, visually appealing sites using and CSS, and see how 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 . Design sites for smartphones, tablets, and desktop PCs, using the same .
  • Simplify site . Check for broken links, streamline site-wide changes, and reorganize your site in a snap.

Table of Contents
Part I: Building a 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. : 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 Devices

Part III: Bringing Your Pages to Life
Chapter 12. Forms
Chapter 13. Adding Interactivity with
Chapter 14. Add and Other

Part IV: Managing a
Chapter 15. Introducing Site Management
Chapter 16. 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 (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

The Data Journalism Handbook

Book Description

When you combine the sheer scale and range of 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 , you'll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.

This valuable has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques from leading journalists, professors, 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 , and corruption
  • Learn find data from the , through freedom of information laws, and by “crowd sourcing”
  • Extract information from raw data with tips for working with numbers and 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 (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

LED Lighting: A Primer to Lighting the Future

Book Description

We're on the brink of a lighting revolution with light-emitting diodes—the tiny LEDs you've seen in devices for years. With this practical guide, you'll go behind the scenes to see how and why manufacturers are now devices to light everything from homes and offices to streets and warehouses.

Author Sal Cangeloso shows you the working parts of a "simple" bulb and explains the challenges electronics companies face as they push 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. LEDs

Book Details

  • Paperback: 70 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly / Make (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449334768
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449334765
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