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 ...

Janice Redish

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works

Whether on the job or at home, Web users want to grab information and use it quickly. They go to the Web to get answers to questions, complete tasks, or to gather information, reading only what they need. This book helps content managers and technical writers successfully plan, organize, compose, design, and test Web content.

Thomas Erl

SOA: Principles of Service Design

This book could be described as an encyclopedia of service design Erl leaves nothing to chance. Indispensable. Steve Birkel, Chief IT Technical Architect, Intel Corp. An absolute pleasure to read the best SOA book I ve read. A book I would recommend to all of my colleagues; it provides much insight to the topics often overlooked by most books in this genre the visuals were fantastic. Brandon Bohling, SOA Architecture and Strategy, Intel Corporation This book is a milestone in SOA literature. For the first time we are provided with a practical guide on defining service characteristics and service design principles for SOA from a vendor-agnostic viewpoint. It s a great reference for SOA discovery, adoptions, and implementation projects. Canyang Kevin Liu, Principal Enterprise Architect, SAP Americas, Inc. I liked this book. It contains extremely important material for those who need to design services. Farzin Yashar, IBM SOA Advanced Technologies This book does a great job laying out benefits, key ideas and design principles behind successfully adopting service-oriented computing. At the same time, the book openly addresses challenges, risks and trade-offs that are ...