This case study explores a very basic Content Management System
(CMS) designed for internal use by a team of technically capable
contributors. This weeks installment gives examples for setting up a placeholder document, defining a document, and more. From Wrox Press.
This case study explores a very basic Content Management System
(CMS) designed for internal use by a team of technically capable
contributors. Our excerpt discusses a very simple CMS in which the
content of a document takes on several forms while using a single database.
From Wrox Press.
Creating a usable e-commerce application is a daunting challenge. There is so much to do, from the initial concept, through to designing and coding the application. This leaves a lot of scope for things to go wrong. The Chapter 3 excerpt introduces you to the concept of making wireframes of web site projects, and how to create them. The rest of this chapter looks at creating UI specs and prototypes.
This excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Practical XML for the
Web" sets the scene for server-side XML, and shows what you
can do with it, by way of a parallel example done in ASP, PHP,
and JSP. This weeks installment goes into some basic XML processing techniques, with examples from each language.
This excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Practical XML for the
Web" sets the scene for server-side XML, and shows what you
can do with it, by way of a parallel example done in ASP, PHP,
and JSP.
This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "Practical XML for the Web" introduces XSLT, going through the basics of using it to transform XML on the client-side, by way of easy-to-follow tutorial examples. This weeks installment covers Specifying Stylesheets for Different Browsers, Creating a Table of Contents with XSLT, Separating Design from Content, and more! From glasshaus.
This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "Practical XML for the Web"
introduces XSLT, going through the basics of using it to transform
XML on the client-side, by way of easy-to-follow tutorial examples. From Glasshaus.
This weeks installment concludes our look at "Internationalization and Localization" with a look at three questions you should ask yourself: "Do users understand your site?", "Can they find what they're looking for?" and "Can they purchase what they find?" From New Riders.
The two terms most critical to the success of web globalization—internationalization and localization—are also the two most frequently misunderstood. This chapter will help you not only differentiate between the two, but also understand how to successfully use them together.
Integrated Web Design steps the designer through the process of integrating technical and design practices in order to deepen their understanding of the how and whys of technology both inside and outside the realm of web design. With this deeper understanding, web site builders will be able to apply more integrated design practices to their everyday work. From New Riders.
The ability to use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is fast becoming a vital tool in the web professional's toolkit. But understanding how to use CSS is not intuitive--it requires a new way of thinking when it comes to building web pages. Learn about structured markup and why ~you~ might be an HTML Terrorist.
It's time to add some dynamic content to your website. The best choice for ease-of-use, price and support is the combination of PHP and MySQL. This article introduces the beginner to using MySQL with PHP.
Learn how to create tables without coding tables with the Convert Layers to Table command in the conclusion of our Inside Dreamweaver series. From New Riders.
The ability to use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is fast becoming a vital tool in the web professional's toolkit. But understanding how to use CSS is not intuitive--it requires a new way of thinking when it comes to building web pages. Learn how to build pages by using relative design techniques: understanding the relationship within the dynamic space of the web rather than the fixed-design "old-school" notions that have been in use for so long.
3D on the Web is one of those technologies that everybody knows will soon be massively successful, but never is. Maybe the introduction of Adobe Atmosphere and the new X3D protocol to replace VRML will be the triggers for a big rise in popularity. But don't hold your breath.
Tip: the only place content can be inserted is in a layout cell, so the necessary cells must be drawn first. Read on to learn how to add text, images, and other media to Dreamweaver MX's layout cells, just as you would add content to a regular HTML table in Standard view.
This week wraps up a look at "XML and PHP" with a few examples demonstrating how WDDX makes it possible to exchange data between different sites and systems in a simple and elegant manner. From New Riders.
Anim-FX works a little differently than many FlashTM creation and animation programs, but Anim-FX is definitely worth a look for those wishing to create web animations, banners, or text effects.
Our excerpt looks at the various options available to let Dreamweaver code tables for you, including Layout view and the Convert Layers to Table command. Learn all about rulers, grids, and tracing images -- viewing aids that can help you create layouts in Design view regardless of how you approach your page layout tables.
Vikram Vaswani demonstrates how WDDX can be combined with PHP to encode and exchange data across different systems and platforms. Book excerpt from New Riders.
Go beyond the basics and learn how the pros add and use dynamic HTML features and advanced JavaScript
techniques. Our excerpt concludes with a look at Internet Explorer Wave Filters, Toggling Images and
Text in Internet Explorer, and Toggling Netscape's Layers. From Que Publishing.
Whether you want to splatter paint with your Wacom tablet or draw line art with a mouse, Flash offers
an array of choices. This excerpt from The Flash Animator focuses on the various tools artists can
use to draw in Flash.
This month, we are taking a look
at the NBA web site and how it operates. For those not acquainted, NBA is
an acronym for the National Basketball Association, and its site is one of
the most dynamic on the internet. On game nights, pages are in constant
change, and updates seemingly are instantaneous.
Go beyond the basics and learn how the pros add and use dynamic HTML features and advanced JavaScript techniques. Our two part excerpt takes a look at Chapter 3: Neat Stuff with Text and Images. From Que Publishing.
Get up to speed on using the advanced features of Dreamweaver MX. Produce dynamic web sites that comply with web standards and accessibility guidelines. Our excerpt concludes with a look at the server behaviors Update Record, Delete Record, User Authentication and Log Out User. From glasshaus.
Last months installment covered using PHP for opening and closing files, displaying, reading and writing to files. This month we'll look at moving the current position in the file, copying and deleting files, getting more information about files, and uploading files.
As a quick reference and tutorial in one, ASP.NET in a Nutshell goes beyond the published documentation to highlight little-known details, stress practical uses for particular features, and provide real-world examples that show how features can be used in a working application. This weeks installment covers Adding Design-Time Support. From O'Reilly & Assoc.
Get up to speed on using the advanced features of Dreamweaver MX. Produce dynamic web sites that comply with web standards and accessibility guidelines. This weeks installment covers server behaviors such as displaying records, showing regions of your document based on a few conditions, and inserting records into your database. From glasshaus.
P3P is a system for making Web site privacy policies machine-readable. It's been around for a while now and is a W3C recommendation, yet still isn't very popular. One reason is that it's technically quite complicated, requiring an XML file and additions to HTTP cookie headers. Here's a quick introduction.
As a quick reference and tutorial in one, ASP.NET in a Nutshell goes beyond the published documentation to highlight little-known details, stress practical uses for particular features, and provide real-world examples that show how features can be used in a working application. This weeks installment covers Custom Server Controls
Rendered Controls, and Compositional Controls. From O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Get up to speed on using the advanced features of Dreamweaver MX. Produce
dynamic web sites that comply with web standards and accessibility guidelines.
This weeks installment covers Bindings, server behaviors,and more! From glasshaus.
Software upgrades have to be exceptional to get reviewer Lee Creek's attention. Read on to find out what Lee Creek finds exceptional in Xara Webstyle 3.
As a quick reference and tutorial in one, ASP.NET in a Nutshell goes beyond the published documentation to highlight little-known details, stress practical uses for particular features, and provide real-world examples that show how features can be used in a working application.
Without question, the toughest task web designers have to face is the promotion of their own business. Banging on random doors is only cost effective if you get lucky and hit the right doors, advertising can get expensive, and waiting on the phone to ring is a waste of time.
Get up to speed on using the advanced features of Dreamweaver MX. Produce dynamic web sites that comply with web standards and accessibility guidelines.
Eric Meyer provides a hands-on approach and practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS. The final installment covers alterint the main-text links, a press release, and a touch of cleanup. From New Riders.
This excerpt from Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development discusses how to
configure Dreamweaver to work with your Development Environment. This weeks installment covers an overview of the advanced site definition, testing the server, a site map layout and the database connection. From Glasshaus.
Basic file handling is a fundamental part of programming. Even now, with powerful and easy to use Database Management Systems available to manage your files, manipulating files in your own code is often necessary. Part 1 of this article explains how to read, write and process files with PHP4.
Eric Meyer provides a hands-on approach and practical examples
to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing
with CSS. The Chapter 4 excerpt explores ways to creatively
style hyperlinks and see how to base their styles on various
link states.
This excerpt from Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development discusses how to configure Dreamweaver to work with your Development Environment. It walks the reader through the new Site Definition Wizard, explaining each step of the configuration. It also looks at the creation of a MySQL Connection that allows Dreamweaver to fully interact with your database.
At the beginning of most HTML pages is a <Head> section, hidden from the user but highly visible to browsers and other bits of Internet machinery such as search engine spiders and caching systems. It's full of meta tags and other sorely-abused bits of HTML.
Open source tools provide a powerful and flexible environment for web development and maintenance. If your site has complex business rules or server logic, then you need more than just an interface builder. You need a strong application language with effective tools ready at hand. Perl's strengths make it a natural choice. This weeks installment covers User Management and Login Sessions. From Manning Publications Co.
Mining for Riches:A technical look at rich media platforms takes a a look inside the technology and architecture of the rich-media platform and how hurdles associated with using a wide assortment of digital assets are overcome.
Usable Forms for the Web provides developers with instant solutions to their form-building problems. It is the first book to tackle the subject in a concise, task-orientated fashion, with substantial on-line support. This weeks installment covers Grouping Controls, Using Labels, Splitting a Form into Different Pages, and more. From glasshaus.
FlashTM creation programs are becoming more and more common, but the word "common" hardly describes 3D Flash Animator from Australia's Insane Tools. The program offers a great combination of features and ease of use, unlike many such programs that seemingly require a PhD to operate.
Open source tools provide a powerful and flexible environment for
web development and maintenance. If your site has complex business rules or server logic, then you need more than just an interface builder. You need a strong application language with effective tools ready at hand. Perl's strengths make it a natural choice. This weeks installment covers User Authentication. From Manning Publications Co.
Open source tools provide a powerful and flexible environment for web development and maintenance. If your site has complex business rules or server logic, then you need more than just an interface builder. You need a strong application language with effective tools ready at hand. Perl's strengths make it a natural choice. From Manning Publications Co.
Designing Usable Forms provides developers with instant solutions to their form-building problems. It is the first book to tackle the subject in a concise, task-orientated fashion, with substantial on-line support. From glasshaus.
Large databases can easily get out of hand when badly designed, leading to poor performance, and resulting in the whole database needing to be rebuilt later. This article is a brief introduction to the topic of relational databases.
In Train of Thoughts—Designing the Effective Web Experience, Web
strategy and design consultant John Lenker provides insight for
how. This book is non-technical and is written not only for Web
designers and developers, but also for any stakeholder in a Web
enterprise that has a vested interest in ensuring that their
online resources become more meaningful and valuable.
Digital content is changing the face of application development. Conventional business platforms are not capable of managing the complex structure and relationships of digital assets. A rich-media platform is proposed.
Lee Creek delves into the business end of web design. Join him as he discusses everything from finding the money to get started, to planning for the emergency that could ruin your company.
JavaScript + CSS + DOM Magic has directly applicable projects with step-by-step instructions showing you how to master a feature and adapt it according to their own needs and creativity. Chapter 12 covers Creating the Basic Document Object Creation Script, Creating the Tab Navigation Script, and Modifying the XHTML Markup to Call the Functions. From New Riders.
This chapter is all about the various iterations and versions of The SynFonts site and downloadable type catalogs the author has created over the years. The aim is to show you how you can learn from your mistakes, if you're willing to constantly question yourself and your work, and make sure each iteration of a project is more and more usable. This weeks installment covers the 1998-2000 Web Site and the temporary closing of the site. From glasshaus.
HTML 4 includes around 250 special characters, or character entities, such as § ± ¶ and ‡. But which ones work in Explorer 5 and Netscape 4, and which ones only show up in IE6 or N6? Andrew Starling goes on a browser compatibility hunt, scattering all 250 in the breeze to find out where they land.
JavaScript + CSS + DOM Magic has directly applicable projects with step-by-step instructions showing
you how to master a feature and adapt it according to their own needs and creativity. Chapter 12 covers Transitional CSS and JavaScript Strategies.
This chapter is all about the various iterations and versions of The SynFonts site
and downloadable type catalogs the author has created over the years. The aim is to show you how you c
an learn from your mistakes, if you're willing to constantly question yourself and your work, and make sure each
iteration of a project is more and more usable. This weeks installment covers the 1996 website and the 1997
Web Site and Interactive Catalog. From glasshaus.
For those who usually find 3D software to be a major drag on their patience, Vue 4's scenery creator software is a welcome relief. It does what it does quickly and efficiently.
Use PHP 4 to create calendars, shopping carts, WAP pages and much more using this practical cookbook-style guide. Packed with ready-to-use applications and organized by application type, this is an ideal resource for when you need quick and easy access to hands-on information. This weeks installment covers Table Administration, User Administration, and SQL Query Execution . From McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media.
37.8% of all Usability Pundits are wrong.
That's about as accurate as any other sweeping generalization made
by any other web usability guru. "Usability: the Site Speaks For Itself"
features case-studies
in usability and information architecture from the makers of eBay,
the BBC news on-line site, The Economist web site, SynFonts
(a flash-driven font foundry e-commerce site), evolt (fully
cross-browser compatible) and metafilter. From glasshaus.
PHP's date functions are powerful, flexible, and surprisingly easy to use. This article guides you through the functions, explaining the concept of a Unix timestamp, which is at the heart of most of the functions, and shows you how easy it is to master these often-misused functions.
Use PHP 4 to create calendars, shopping carts, WAP pages and much more using this practical cookbook-style guide. Packed with ready-to-use applications and organized by application type, this is an ideal resource for when you need quick and easy access to hands-on information. This weeks installment covers Managing the Login, Database Monitoring, and Database Administration. From McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media.
Skip Intro is designed to help educate the Flash community specifically and designers/programmers at large that usability isn't a dirty word. It doesn't mean making boring pedestrian web sites, and it doesn't mean abandoning Flash. This weeks installment covers Testing Your Work and Making the Component. From New Riders Publishing.
First impressions are very important in today's world. Such initial thoughts can determine whether we like someone from the start, whether or not we want to purchase a particular car, whether or not we like the house a realtor is showing us, and whether or not we get a particular job. It is also true that first impressions mean a lot when people look at web sites.
Use PHP 4 to create calendars, shopping carts, WAP pages and much more using this practical cookbook-style guide. Packed with ready-to-use applications and organized by application type, this is an ideal resource for when you need quick and easy access to hands-on information.
Skip Intro is designed to help educate the Flash community specifically and designers/programmers at large that usability isn't a dirty word. It doesn't mean making boring pedestrian web sites, and it doesn't mean abandoning Flash. Skip Intro guides designers through understanding the site requirements and their intended users and then starts them down the road of developing for those users, by taking them step-by-step through design scenerios, rather than providing strict rules of usability.
It's possible to use JavaScript in your Web pages without spending months at night-school learning how the language works. Some scripts are plug and play - drop them in the right place on your HTML page and they'll work straight away. Others need only a small amount of customisation to meet your needs. Here we take a look at JavaScript from a non-programmers point of view.
You know you need good user interface design. You've heard that 99% of Flash is bad. You want to
start creating Flash sites with a good UI, but you just dont know where to start. If so then this
is the book you've been looking for.
One complaint about computer color pickers in the past is that they are often clumsy to use and get
the color desired. That is not the case with Color Wheel Expert v4.0.
This is a new kind of JavaScript book. It's not cut'n'paste, it's not a reference, and it's not an
exhaustive investigation of the JavaScript language. It is about client-side, web-focused, and
task-oriented JavaScript. This weeks installment concludes with the JavaScript Syntax, Code Execution, Objects, and a Simple JavaScript Example. From glasshaus.
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and
practical information on creating web database applications. This weeks installment shows how to
use sessions to improve the user interaction with the client entry <form> The improvements focus on
the interaction when the <form> is submitted and fields don't validate. From O'Reilly & Associates,
Inc.
This is a new kind of JavaScript book. It's not cut'n'paste, it's not a reference, and it's not an exhaustive investigation of the JavaScript language. It is about client-side, web-focused, and
task-oriented JavaScript.
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and
practical information on creating web database applications. The focus of this chapter is on the
session management provided by PHP. However, other techniques to keep state are briefly discussed,
including the use of cookies. From O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
XML Family of Specifications provides a complete roadmap for understanding how XML, XSL, XML Schema, and related specifications interlink to create powerful, real-world applications. This final installment covers Well-Formed vs. Valid Documents. From Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
This concise book gives programmers both a concrete introduction and handy reference to XML web
services. This weeks installment covers Automatically Generating WSDL Files and XML Schema Data Typing. From O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Anark Studio 1.0 is such a powerful multimedia creation program that you may want to purchase a ticket just to see the
results of your own work. In fact, the only way to not be impressed with the program is to never see it at all.
XML Family of Specifications provides a complete roadmap for understanding how XML, XSL, XML Schema,
and related specifications interlink to create powerful, real-world applications. This weeks
installment covers XML Syntax Rules. From Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
This concise book gives programmers both a concrete introduction and handy reference to XML web
services. It explains the foundations of this new breed of distributed services, demonstrates quick
ways to create services with open-source Java tools, and explores four key emerging technologies:
XML-RPC, SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL. From O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
WDVL's own Ken Sall has written a comprehensive guide to the core XML technology from the W3C, published by Addison Wesley. WDVL is hosting the permanent Web site for the book, which includes a sample chapter, all code examples, hundreds of links to XML resources organized by topic, an imagemap of the Big Picture of the XML Family of Specifications, and more.
As XML continues to mature, developers need to understand how
this standard and its related technologies are revolutionizing
software development. XML Family of Specifications provides a
complete roadmap for understanding how XML, XSL, XML Schema, and
related specifications interlink to create powerful, real-world
applications.
Having a problem with Flash well here's your cheatsheet.
Sothink's Decompiler breaks down .swf files and stand alone
flash movies so you can view there inner workings and that's not
all.
Will Photoshop 7.0 be worth the wait? Without a doubt! The File
Browser, Healing Brush, and Web Gallery make this upgrade well
worth the price, but there's more. You also get the new Paint
Engine, Security features, Spell Checker and customized
workspaces! Adobe has outdone themselves with this latest
version of Photoshop.
This month we're going to walk you through the process of using
cookies and Flash to create an online notepad feature that will
allow users to key in notes to themselves, have them stored on
their local system and when they return have the same notes
reappear for them to see and edit.
Someone is always going to ask the hard question, "What is the
best way of working with XML using PHP?". That is a difficult
question to answer. The final installment shows you a few
different ways
If you've felt overwhelmed trying to use Flash files or if you just want a way to make the whole process easier, this is it. Flash Designer takes a lot of the guesswork out of using Flash and at a price that won't break you.
Looking for a drawing program that has more to offer? CeledyDraw may be just up your ally. CeledyDraw is multi-faceted with drawing tools, internet graphics and desktop publishing capabilities. The price might surprise you too!
Trying to add music to your site or maybe you're not happy with your current setup? Lee Creek lays it out and explains some of the common problems when adding music to a site.
Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This week we will break down and look at the different aspects of the Dom and Rax Models.
If you've felt overwhelmed trying to use Flash files or if you just want a way to make the whole process easier, this is it. Flash Designer takes a lot of the guesswork out of using Flash and at a price that won't break you.
When developing a web site, one of the most important things to consider is the navigation menu, to allow your users to find their way around it. It needs to be usable, informative, and well implemented, but this can take time.
Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment takes a look at reading an XML file and displaying it as an HTML table, using SAX.
Its name appears to be an oxymoron, but ImageMatics'
StillMotion Creator is indeed a very smart tool for
web designers looking to add special effects to
otherwise static web pages.
If you've been using HTML tables for a while then you'll know
they don't always work out as intended.In this article we
investigate some of the bugs that can trip you up, and also look
at advanced uses, including nested tables, colored borders and
free-standing panels with text wrapped around.
To harness the true power of relational databases it is vital to master queries using more than one table. This article will introduce you to database joins - queries using 2 or more tables.
TeeChart Office can provide about 17 different types of charts,
with a number of variations available for most of those.
Additionally, the program allows such extensive customization
that the total number of charts possible seems endless.
Where to start? What to include? What to do? Are these common questions among web developers? Only when designing their own site. Lee Creek offers developers some advice for when the site they're building
is their own.
Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web
applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a
back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment
discusses "A Sample LDAP Application in PHP". From Wrox Press.
Lee Creek has made the transition from print media to the web and is reveling in his freedom to use
color. Join him to learn how to optimize your photos for the web.
Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web
applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a
back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This weeks installment discusses some features which
LDAP supports but are seldom used except by administrators or advanced users. Covered are Installing
and Configuring an LDAP Server, Running the slapd Server, The PHP LDAP API, Search Functions, and
more! From Wrox Press.
For those who wish to create art that could be worthy of
the great masters — and for whom it normally would be a stretch to use a
roller to paint a wall — a plugin called buZZ.Pro 2.0 just might be the tool.
What does Perl hacker Jonathan Eisenzopf think of add-ons to other products? What does he think of
Visual Perl, in particular, and will he ever write in Linux again? Read his review of Visual Perl, a
plug-in for Microsoft Studio .NET, to find out.
This manuscript is an abridged version of Chapter 14. This first
installment looks at LDAP components, applications, and models.
This book is a resource for working PHP developers who want to
take their skills to the next level.
This final installment shows you how to make sure your design is
in service to your concept and includes a bit of admonishment to
tell the truth up-front. By teaching those that create Web sites
how to think like the people who use them, Back to the
User enables Web marketers and developers to create sites
that people want to, and can successfully, use.
Swift 3D is designed to create 3D content for Flash and Adobe
Illustrator, but the difference in it and many such programs is
that it is highly usable even without previous experience, and it
is easy and useful enough to create excellent Web content.
Achieving high rankings for Web sites on search engines has
become a black art. But there is an alternative approach. How
about creating pages that present search engine spiders with the
information they want? Manipulating meta tags and image Alt
descriptions can saddle you with a ranking penalty. It's the text
near the top of the page that you need to spend your time on.
Once again it's roundup time! This month's subjects range (no pun
intended) from a discussion of SWiSH vs. Flash to finding an
online crash course in PHP. In between we look at the performance
implications of using a large amount of SSI's, sending the body
of an e-mail message using the mailto: tag, and
tutorials for Netscape and layers.
By teaching those that create Web sites how to think like the
people who use them, Back to the User enables Web
marketers and developers to create sites that people want to, and
can successfully, use. This first installment covers the
homepage, credentials, and using space wisely.
This month we're going to take a look at the creation of a custom
cursor, and how to import text files into a Flash file. We'll
also talk about using some basic HTML commands with these text
files, to allow for links and various text features, such as bold
and italic, to be created.
This last installment discusses vital but tangential or
supplemental material, moving repeating categories of information
into tables, charts, or graphs, and includes a few sites for your
critique. This book will show you how to craft prose that grabs
your guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces
them to act. You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and
scannable.
This final installment covers publishing MySQL data on the Web,
connecting to MySQL with PHP, sending SQL queries with PHP,
inserting data into the database, and even has a "homework"
assignment. This book covers everything from installing PHP &
MySQL under Windows or Linux, through to building a live Web-
based content management system.
While there are a lot of good screen capture programs on the
market, Web designers who need to make a lot of captures would be
well advised to look closely at UltraSnap Pro.
The script in this article will keep your customers on your site
and provide self-service package tracking capabilities for
Federal Express and/or UPS.
This next installment discusses methods of keeping the text
short for online articles. Sections included in this excerpt
include "Save The Meaning, Cut Away The Rest" and "Delete
Marketing Fluff". This book will show you how to craft prose that
grabs your guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and
convinces them to act. You'll learn how to make your style fast,
tight, and scannable.
This third installment introduces PHP, variables and operators,
user interaction and forms, control structures, and multi-purpose
pages. This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL
under Windows or Linux, through to building a live Web-based
content management system.
When used properly, color can be a thing of beauty. When used
improperly, it can be reasonably repulsive. Learn the importance
of good color combinations.
In this installment we look at how to customize and personalize
content, develop an attitude, and talk on the user's level. This
book will show you how to craft prose that grabs your guests'
attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces them to act.
You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and scannable.
This second installment covers an introduction to databases,
logging on to MySQL, defininfg SQL, inserting data into a table,
and modifying stored data. This book covers everything from
installing PHP & MySQL under Windows or Linux, through to
building a live Web-based content management system.
Matrix Y2K 6.0 is a good program for people with varying degrees
of HTML ability. It offers enough automation to make many tasks
easy for less experienced users, and its speed is nice for more
veteran users.
As Web design become more of a science and less driven by
inspired guesswork, the Web's top sites are converging. Already
they share many design features. Through analysing this
convergence we can come up with a set of 'best practice'
guidelines.
This book will show you how to craft prose that grabs your
guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces them to
act. You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and
scannable. This first installment looks at how to discover who
you are really talking to.
Together, PHP & MySQL form the most widely used open source
database and scripting technologies on the Web today. This book
covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows or
Linux, through to building a live Web-based content management
system.
