New Books
Computers and Internet
Posted on March 26, 2008
Adobe
Dreamweaver CS3
with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP
By Jeffrey Bardzell and Bob Flynn
Adobe, October 2007
ISBN: 0321461061
Paperback: 504pp; $49.99
Designed for intermediate Web designers and developers with no previous experience with programming or server-side technology. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion and PHP: Training from the Source has been fully-updated, not just for the latest version of Dreamweaver but for today's Web. It's now standards-compliant, with a site created using one of Dreamweaver's brand-new CSS templates, that includes Ajax elements in the dynamic site design. Users ready to take the next step and make their Web sites interactive will find the same easy-to-read, logical, well-constructed projects, but with a site based on the latest Web technology.
Creating
Dynamic Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer
By J.P. Terry
Adobe, September 2007
ISBN: 0321509870
Paperback: 288pp; $44.99
Adobe LiveCycle Designer is the form creation tool that comes bundled with Adobe Acrobat Professional. This is the first and only book that explains how to use Designer to create interactive and dynamic forms. The book was written in tandem with the Adobe LiveCycle development team and it has been thoroughly reviewed by over a dozen Adobe engineers. It covers all of the major topics and includes valuable links to other LiveCycle Designer documentation and resources.
Dreamweaver
CS3
The Missing Manual
By David Sawyer McFarland
Pogue Press, June 2007
ISBN: 0596510438
Paperback: 995pp; $44.99
Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual teaches designers how to construct and manage web sites by examining web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities through "live examples". With a complete A-Z guide to designing, organizing, building and deploying a web site for those with no web design experience.
Learning
Web Design
A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, Style Sheets, and Web Graphics
Third Edition by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
O'Reilly, June 2007
ISBN: 0596527527
Paperback: 479pp; $44.99
Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web.
The
Non-Designer's Design & Type Books
Deluxe Edition by Robin Williams
Peachpit Press, October 2007
ISBN: 0321534050
Paperback: 448pp; $45
Robin Williams has joined together a new edition of her classic The Non-Designer’s Design Book and her best-selling The Non-Designer’s Type Book. Robin uses her straightforward and lighthearted style to define the principles that govern good design and type as well as the logic behind those principles. Using numerous examples, you’ll learn what looks best and why on your way to designing beautiful and effective projects. Whether you are a Mac user or a Windows user, a type novice or an experienced graphic designer, you will find inspiration and direction for the design quandaries and conundrums you are sure to encounter!
Photoshop
CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook
By Tim Shelbourne
O'Reilly, December 2007
ISBN: 0596515049
Paperback: 176pp; $29.99
With 53 easy-to-follow recipes, Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook shows you how to use Photoshop CS3 to simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques and special effects-without making you first learn Photoshop inside and out. Packed with hundreds of full-color images, step-by-step instructions, and many practical tips.
Real
World Adobe InDesign CS3
By Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner
Adobe, October 2007
ISBN: 032149170X
Paperback: 912pp; $49.99
Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS3, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign’s advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently. They’ll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS3, including new gradient feather, directional feather, and bevel and emboss effects; improved transparency controls; improved long document support; expanded Find/Change; and an even more flexible and customizable user interface.
Real
World Camera Raw
with Adobe Photoshop CS3
By Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe
Adobe, November 2007
ISBN: 0321518675
Paperback: 384pp; $44.99
Jeff Schewe, a contributor to the development of Adobe Camera Raw from its beginnings, updates Bruce Fraser’s best-selling book with inside knowledge of how new features let photographers optimize and convert images for the best results in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Hands-on techniques show readers how to expose and shoot for raw image capture as well as use new features such as Spot Healing. Readers will also learn how to use the latest version of Adobe Bridge to manage the thousands of images—and gigabytes of data—that result from raw shooting. Finally, Schewe discusses how Adobe’s latest revolutionary imaging software Photoshop Lightroom adds to the raw equation.
Scott
Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3
By Scott Kelby
Peachpit Press, October 2007
ISBN: 0321501926
Paperback: 288pp; $49.99
In this book, Kelby reveals his 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 that breaks things down to just seven simple (yet powerful) techniques. This system gives a game plan and a correction road map that can be easily applied to every photo opened in Photoshop to make a beautiful finished print.
Search
Engine Visibilty
Second Edition by Shari Thurow
New Riders, September 2007
ISBN: 0321503244
Paperback: 312pp; $34.99
Search Engine Visibility is about designing, writing, and creating a web site primarily for a site's visitors, and helping them find what they are searching for via the major search engines, directories, and industry-related sites. This book teaches developers, designers, programmers, and online marketers what pitfalls to avoid from the beginning so they can provide their clients with more effective site designs. It includes up-to-date information on new developments such as blogs, video and podcasts, web applications and more.
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