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Adobe CS3 Classroom in a Book |
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By the Adobe Creative Team, this book covers the new features of CS3 that some older books may not cover. This includes the new smart filters, zoomify, quick selection, align content, clone source and more.
There are 14 lessons with step-by-step tutorials and review questions and 16 video tutorials.
This is a good general book that covers the basics and fundamentals of Photoshop. Perfect if you are a beginner to Photoshop. As you progress futher or have specialized use of Photoshop, see more books in the Photoshop section.
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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML |
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With lots of exercises, Q&A, crosswords, and even a five-minute mystery, this book makes learning fun. Beside characters with thought bubbles, it is filled with lots of explanatory side notes with arrows pointing to screen shots, diagram, and code syntax.
It makes great use of visuals to convey concepts. For example, photo of nested dolls to convey nested elements and scales to convey font-weight. Section titles such as "HTML Archeology", "Markup Magnet", "Element Soup", and "The Case of Relatives and Absolutes" will not get you bored.
It covers HTML from the ground up going over tables, forms, XHTML, CSS, Box Model, and all the basics including web hosting and FTP.
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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design |
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Using a real-life design example, the author starts with a discussion of layout and color theory. You see his thought process on picking out six colors for his color scheme.
If you are a programmer who have not had the formal training in art and design, this books is a great crash course. It covers all the basic principles including the user of images, typography, texture, and Web 2.0 style.
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Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL |
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PHP and MySQL are widely used in creating webapps on shared web hosting. This book by Kevin Yank, Technical Director of Sitepoint, is a great way to get started. It assumes no prior knowlegde and goes over all the basics that would be needed by anyone wanting to add backend functionality to their websites. Sitepoint produces great books.
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Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book |
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What can we say? We like the step-by-step approach of the "Classroom in a Book" series written by the people at Adobe themselves.
The structured project-based lessons will teach you the basics of animation, timelines, frames, and symbols. You will learn how to incorporate sound, publish Flash content, and write some Actionscript 3.0. Plus there is coverage of the new Flash CS3 features.
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