Web Design Essentials
Web Design Essentials is aimed at web designers/developers who feel passionately about the web and want to know about the latest trends, tools and techniques to future-proof their site and get ahead of the competition. It covers what’s currently cutting edge in the web design community, including CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript libraries like jQuery, CMSes, APIs and much more. Plus, there's an in-depth section detailing everything you need to know to go freelance and start your own agency.
Web Design Essentials also includes a disc packed with files to follow the tutorials as well as full programs and resources to help the reader build standards-based state-of-the art sites.
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Master user experience design
We talk to UX experts to demystify the process behind web design and development's fastest-growing and potentially most important industry -
Build faster websites
Craig Grannell looks at how you can make your sites faster and more efficient - making them easier to use and more attractive to visitors -
Interview: Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman talks about the current state of play, how to improve standards and how web designers can survive the economic downturn -
Create a tabbed interface
Aaron Gustafson demonstrates how to create a script for a lightweight yet powerful tabbed interface using CSS and basic JavaScript -
Master Twitter's geolocation API
Ben Marsh, creator of the #uksnow map, explains how to use the geolocation features in Twitter's API to create a map of nearby tweets -
Be the boss
Over 24 pages Mark Boulton and Robert Mills reveal all you need to know to go it alone, explaining how to win your first clients, growing your business etc
