CSS Web Site Design: Includes Exercise Files and Demo Movies [With CDROM]

Edmond Woychowsky

Ajax: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

The Easy, Example-Based Guide to Ajax for E"very" Web Developer Using Ajax, you can build Web applications with the sophistication and usability of traditional desktop applications and you can do it using standards and open source software. Now, for the first time, there's an easy, example-driven guide to Ajax for every Web and open source developer, regardless of experience. Edmond Woychowsky begins with simple techniques involving only HTML and basic JavaScript. Then, one step at a time, he introduces techniques for building increasingly rich applications. Don't worry if you're not an expert on Ajax's underlying technologies; Woychowsky offers refreshers on them, from JavaScript to the XMLHttpRequest object. You'll also find multiple open source technologies and open standards throughout, ranging from Firefox to Ruby and MySQL. You'll not only learn how to write "functional" code, but also master design patterns for writing rocksolid, high-performance Ajax applications. You'll also learn how to use frameworks such as Ruby on Rails to get the job done "fast." Learn how Ajax works, how it evolved, and what it's good for Understand the flow of processing in Ajax applications ...

Sarah Horton, Patrick J. Lynch

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites

Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation are of primary concern. New in this edition: --a full chapter devoted to Universal Usability --guidelines and techniques for creating universally usable designs --a full chapter on Information Architecture and how best to promote its robust development --information on Search Engine Optimization and the designs that improve it --techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets for layouts and typographic design --185 illustrations, all in full color

Milton L. Mueller

Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance

How institutions for Internet governance are emerging from the tension between the territorially bound nation-state and a transnational network society.