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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is the ideal book for anyone who wants to design stunning websites that provide a great user experience. Perhaps you're a developer who wants to understand how to make your applications more visually appealing, or you're a novice who wants to start on the path to becoming a designer.

How well do you really know your users? With properly conducted user research, you can discover what really makes your audience tick. This practical guide will show you, step-by-step, how to gain proper insight about your users so that you can base design decisions on solid evidence.

With easy-to-follow, practical advice, this book will show you how to use a number of different prototyping techniques to improve UX.

Comprehensively updated to cover PHP 8 and modern best practice, this highly practical and fun book covers everything from installation through to creating a complete online content management system.

This book will show you how to write better, more efficient CSS, and to use the plethora of the new cutting-edge CSS features available to the front-end developer. You'll also learn to master tools that will improve your workflow.

Now revised to cover Vue 3, this short book is ideal for front-end developers who need a rapid introduction to Vue.js.

Do you want to learn to code? Perhaps you want to learn how to build the next social media sensation or blockbuster game? Or perhaps you just want to get some valuable coding experience under your belt? This easy-to-follow, practical, and fun guide is the perfect place to start on your coding journey.

This book will walk you through every part of designing a great forms user experience. From the words, to how the form looks, and on to interactivity, you'll learn how to design a web form that works beautifully on mobiles, laptops and desktops. Filled with practical and engaging insights, and plenty of real-world examples, both good and bad.

This book provides a rapid and practical introduction to using Sketch for web design. If you're currently a Photoshop user, you'll quickly understand how Sketch can supercharge your design process.

Get a Jump Start on the popular CSS preprocessor Sass today! Using Sass, you can write your stylesheets in a more concise, dynamic, and readable way, and cut down many of the tedious repetitive tasks that come with writing vanilla CSS. Sass simplifies your stylesheets, adding some useful features missing from CSS.

With modern tools. it is possible to create a production grade, full-stack application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript alone. The combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js has become so popular that it has earned the title MEAN stack, and is the subject of this book.

Comprehensively updated to cover ECMAScript 6 and modern JavaScript development, the second edition of this step-by-step introduction to coding in JavaScript will show you how to to solve real-world problems, design eye-catching animations, build smarter forms, and develop richer applications.

This book will show you, step by step, how you can use website and app analytics data to inform design choices and definitively improve user experience.

In Jump Start Responsive Web Design, you'll learn responsive techniques to make your designs look magnificent on any device, future-proof them, and reduce development time and budget.

Rails: Novice to Ninja is an easy-to-follow, practical and fun guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners. It covers all you need to get up and running, from installing Ruby, Rails and SQLite to building and deploying a fully-featured web application.

Get a Jump Start on the up and coming UX design and prototyping power tool, Experience Design! This book provides a rapid and practical introduction to using Adobe XD for UX design and prototyping.

While most Scrum books tend to be lengthy textbooks that cover every detail of Scrum for all types of organizations, this highly practical book concentrates solely on how best to apply Scrum in web and mobile development projects.

This book is aimed at the absolute beginner who wants to start learning PHP, but aims to set you up with a thorough understanding of what makes for a good, modern, adaptable PHP environment before you start diving into PHP itself.

HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World is your perfect introduction to the latest generation of web technologies. This easy-to-follow guide covers everything you need to know to get started today.

Foundation is a hugely popular CSS framework that's making the once-arduous process of crafting responsive web designs a breeze! Read this book and discover why Foundation is fast becoming a favorite tool of top web designers.

A practical book on website performance for web developers, concentrating mainly on front-end performance improvement. It covers plenty of solid theory, but is also packed with useful, real world hints and tips that you can use on your sites today.

Get a Jump Start on building applications with Bootstrap today! Originally developed by Twitter, Bootstrap is a framework that making the once-arduous process of crafting fully responsive web designs a breeze! Discover why Bootstrap is fast becoming a favorite tool of top web designers.

This short book provides a practical introduction to HTML5. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the predominant language of web pages. Originally developed as a way to describe and share scientific papers, HTML is now used to mark up all sorts of documents and create visual interfaces for browser-based software.With HTML5, however, HTML has become as much an of API for developing browser-based software as it is a markup language. In this book, we'll talk about the history of HTML and HTML5 and explore its new features.It covers:* HTML5 basics* Multimedia* Canvas and SVG* HTML5 applications* HTML5 APIsHTML5 is required knowledge for every professional web designer and developer. This book will quickly get you up to speed with the fundamentals of HTML5 and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.

Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended to be a completely comprehensive Rails guide or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, it will quickly get you up to speed with Rails and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.The book is built around a real-life example project: a personal portfolio site. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way.This is a clear, approachable and very easy-to-follow book that will get you to to speed with Rails in no time.

Get a Jump Start on PHP today!PHP is a key server-side technology in web development, enabling you to quickly and simply develop interactive, usable and engaging websites and applications.In just one weekend with this SitePoint book, you'll learn how to:* Install all of the software you need to begin developing PHP applications* Understand PHP functions and syntax* Build a complete, working PHP application from scratch: a simple social networking appPlus you'll discover how to use modern techniques such as MVC and REST

Node.js is changing the way web apps are built. As Node.js apps are written in JavaScript, you can quickly and simply use your front-end skills to develop staggeringly fast, scalable real-time web applications.Read this book and, in a weekend, you’ll learn how to:* Develop a complete working Node.js application - from start-to-finish* Deploy your new application to a production server* Scale your projects quickly and cheaplyPLUS discover how to use Twitter Bootstrap, MongoDB and Back-bone.js to create fancy web apps, extend their storage, and dy-namically update them.

"Get up to speed with CoffeeScript in a weekend"--Cover.

Today, technology is used to shift, sway and change attitudes and behavior. This creates amazing opportunities and challenges for designers.

Photoshop CS6 Unlocked is a full-color question-and-answer book for web designers who want to use Photoshop to create better looking websites.Completely updated for Photoshop CS6, this comprehensive book covers:* Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts* Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more* Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors* Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds* Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more* Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images, and more* Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce, and more* Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more* Advanced techniques: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions, and more