HTML5 Mobile Websites: Turbocharging HTML5 With jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and Other Frameworks
Matthew David
ISBN: 978-0-240-81813-9
Build HTML5-powered mobile Web experiences with the aid of development frameworks that speed the development of Native App-like experiences. Build on your foundation of HTML and JavaScript with a complete understanding of the different mobile Web browser technologies. You get carefully detailed techniques that are illustrated in full color so you can leverage the Web technologies unique to each mobile browser, apply frameworks such as Sencha Touch to rapidly build out your designs, and design techniques expressly suited for tablet devices....[more]
Bloggers Boot Camp:
Learning How to Build, Write, and Run a Successful Blog
John Biggs
Charlie White
ISBN: 978-0-240-81917-4
Bloggers Boot Camp shows you how to build a great blog from the ground up. This isn't a book about technology—it's a book about engaging millions of readers. Starting your blog is easy, but building and maintaining a popular one is hard.
Blogging experts John Biggs and Charlie White (Gizmodo, Mashable and TechCrunch) share their secrets from the frontline showing you how to blog with quality and flair, find the best stories, and attract millions of readers to your blog...[more]
White Space Is Not Your Enemy: A Beginner's Guide to Communicating Visually Through Graphic, Web and Multimedia Design
Kim Golombisky
Rebecca Hagen
ISBN: 978-0-240-81281-6
Designing a brochure or website without an art background? Step away from the computer and read this breezy introduction to visual communications first. Written for non-designers, White Space Is Not Your Enemy is a practical graphic design and layout text introducing the concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communications across a variety of formats, from print to Web.
This beautifully illustrated, full-color book covers the basics to help you develop your eye and produce attractive work...[more]
Flash Mobile: Developing Android and iOS Applications
Matthew David
ISBN: 978-0-240-81568-8
Contents
Setting up Flash CS5 for Android Development; Rapid Android Development in Flash CS5' Developing Android Apps using ActionScript; Leveraging Custom iPhone Interface Calls with ActionScript; Building Games with Flash for the Android OS; Deploying Android Apps with Flash CS5... [more]
Data Visualization With Flash Builder: Designing RIA and AIR Applications With Remote Data Sources
Cesare Rocchi
ISBN: 978-0-240-81503-9
Design and create functional applications that interact with remote data sources. You get a thorough introduction to the latest Flash Builder tools learning how you can use the built-in wizards, MXML or pure ActionScript 3 to build information-rich applications for the browser or AIR applications. Hands-on tutorials guide you through each iteration including building user interaction, charting, incorporating audio and video, customizing the UI; and a code repository provides re-usable code that you can modify and deploy in your own applications... [more]
Interactive InDesign CS5: Take Your Print Skills to the Web and Beyond
Mira Rubin
ISBN: 978-0-240-81511-4
This tutorial-based guide to the CS5 toolset gives students a hands-on understanding of how to create interactive PDFs and Flash (SWF) movies directly in InDesign. After an introduction to the essential concepts and considerations behind interactive design, the reader learns how to extend their print skills with step-by-step instructions and real-world exercises that quickly get them working confidently with:
- Buttons and navigation
- Multistate objects
- Animation
- Video and Audio
Along the way, students explore the rich graphical and drawing capabilities of InDesign, and master the idiosyncrasies of the alternative output options and techniques to optimize files for export to SWF, Flash Professional and Acrobat. They also learn to maximize their efficiency with styles, library items, snippets, presets, and more; and gather a host of power-user tips that will take their print and interactive work to a whole new level. The companion website, www.interactive-indesign.com, provides all the demo projects, tutorial files, and updates needed to work through the exercises in the book... [more]
Professional Web Video: Plan, Produce, Distribute, Promote, and Monetize Quality Video
Richard Harrington
Mark Weiser
ISBN: 978-0-240-81509-1
Add professional-level video to your Web communications toolbox with a complete understanding of the process, potential and limitations of Web video. Step up from the mini-cam experience with this solid introduction to professional planning and production techniques, ensuring that your video meets the same standards you set for every other communication program element. Audio, lighting, editing, encoding, are just a few of the essentials you learn how the pros produce top notch video for the Web. The companion website includes planning and production templates, demo files, and blog updates to help you put it all to work for you on a daily basis... [more]
Flash + After Effects: Add Broadcast Features to Your Flash Designs, 2nd Edition
Chris Jackson
ISBN: 978-0-240-81351-6
Flash Designers: push Flash to the next level with After Effects’ robust toolset.
- Add motion graphics and visual effects to your Flash projects
- Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
- Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
- Save development time in executing animations
Combine these two powerhouse applications to expand your multimedia horizons. Flash + After Effects: Add Broadcast Features to Your Flash Designs,
2nd Edition gives the experienced Flash designer a working understanding of the After Effects toolset with professional techniques that raise the design bar for Web, broadcast, or CD/DVD delivery. The companion DVD contains project media that permit you to practice essential After Effects skills that include:
- Working with video and the AE timeline
- Using alpha channels for keying and enhancing interactivity
- Putting vector animation to work with Text and Shape Layers, and animation presets
- Creating 3D backgrounds with cameras and lights
- Animating with Behaviors, Parenting, Expressions and the Puppet Tool
You also get a video primer, render and file optimization techniques, and publishing and streaming guidelines... [more]
Flash Advertising: Flash Platform Development of Microsites, Advergames and Branded Applications
Jason Fincanon
ISBN: 978-0-240-81345-5
Create awe-inspiring, mind-blowing Flash ads, microsites, advergames, and branded applications that engage consumers and demonstrate their worth to clients. Flash Advertising delivers the nuts and bolts of the development process from initial design conception to ad completion. You’ll learn the best practices for:
- Mastering the myriad of ad specs, deadlines, quality and version control issues
- Creating ads that balance campaign goals with design constraints
- Preparing and building ads with team and QC standards
- Using forms and data in ads without file bloat
- File optimization techniques for swf files
- 3rd party rich media technologies that transcend the 30k banner
- Integrating video into sites and banners
- Social media applications
- Trafficking and tracking ads for impressions, interactions, clicks, and conversions
- Using ActionScript to save development time and implement team standards
Published projects developed with the practices and AS code presented in the book are available on the companion website http://www.flashadbook.com... [more]
HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications
Matthew David
ISBN: 978-0-240-81328-8
- Understand how HTML5 is changing the web development game with powerful new multimedia and interactive capabilities
- Implement the powerful new rich media and interactive features of HTML5, including style control tools, illustration tools, video, audio, and rich media solutions
- Reinforce your practical understanding of the new standard with demo applications and tutorials provided on the companion website, so that execution is one short step away
Note: Supplemental materials consist of project media supplied to the readers that facilitate hands-on exercises presented within the book.
Approx. 400 illustrations (400 in full color)... [more]
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