This best-selling text, HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th Edition, uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce students to all of today’s HTML5 and CSS essentials. They’ll learn how to design, structure, and format their website; learn about the new elements and form input types in HTML5; create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms; and they’ll add video, audio, and other multimedia to their site. They’ll learn how to add visual effects with CSS3; understand web standards and learn from code examples that reflect today’s best practices. Finally, students will test and debug their site, and publish it to the web.
Need to learn HTML5 fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today’s HTML5 and CSS essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your website. You’ll learn about the new elements and form input types in HTML5. You’ll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms; and you’ll add video, audio, and other multimedia to your site. You’ll learn how to add visual effects with CSS3. You’ll understand web standards and learn from code examples that reflect today’s best practices. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the web. Throughout the book, the authors will cover all of HTML and offer extensive coverage of HTML5 and CSS techniques. Download eBook Free »
The iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are not just consumer devices. Apple’s popular iOS devices are rapidly spreading through the business market in increasing numbers. In this thorough reference guide, IT professionals will learn from seasoned IT veteran John Welch how to deploy and manage iOS devices in the enterprise.
John uses a refreshing, straightforward approach to teach you how to manage iOS devices. And he covers a wide range of methods, from managing just a handful of devices to dealing with hundreds. You’ll find out when using iTunes for management is good enough and how to get the most out of that simple tool. You’ll also explore what you can do with Apple’s free iPhone Configuration Utility, from setting up applications and provisioning to specifying precisely what users can do with their devices. He’ll show you how to use the iPCU (iPhone Configuration Utility) to install enterprise apps on an iOS device, do extensive management, and distribute profiles via USB, by email, and over the air (OTA). For environments that require large deployments with huge numbers of iOS devices, you’ll get instruction on using SCEP (Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol). And he’ll take you even further to learn how to use Mobile Device Management (MDM) to push changes out to devices.
The iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are not just consumer devices. Apple’s popular iOS devices are rapidly spreading through the business market in increasing numbers. In this thorough reference guide, IT professionals will learn from seasoned IT veteran John Welch how to deploy and manage iOS devices in the enterprise. Download eBook Free »
In Mobilizing Web Sites: Develop and Design, author and designer Kristofer Layon addresses that elephant in the room the many existing web sites that we manage on a day-to-day basis and walks through techniques that web designers can use to make these legacy web sites better-suited for mobile viewing. By focusing on content strategy and the mobile UI experience, web designers can use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to design mobile presentations of legacy, standards-based web sites. The techniques of gradual mobile improvement are all that a designer needs to help the existing web be more mobile.
Everyone has been talking about the mobile web in recent years, and more of us are browsing the web on smartphones and similar devices than ever before. But most of what we are viewing has not yet been updated for mobile presentation. How can designers bring more of the web up to speed with the capabilities of today’s mobile devices?
In Mobilizing Web Sites: Strategies for Mobile Web Implementation, author and designer Kristofer Layon addresses that elephant in the room the many existing web sites that we manage on a day-to-day basis and walks through techniques that web designers can use to make these legacy web sites better-suited for mobile viewing. By focusing on content strategy and the mobile UI experience, web designers can use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to design mobile presentations of legacy, standards-based web sites. The techniques of gradual mobile improvement are all that a designer needs to help the existing web be more mobile. Download eBook Free »
Creating Android Applications: Develop and Design starts with platform installation and then winds its way around commonly made mistakes as it covers the basics of application development. Along the way the author takes side trips to teach about GPS sensors, media playback, and advanced graphics. At its core, this book teaches Android development using accessible, simple language and straightforward, code-based tutorials.
Creating Android Applications: Develop and Design
Capturing more than half of the global smartphone market, Google’s Android mobile platform offers a vibrant and growing marketplace for developers. In this book, Android programming expert Chris Haseman shows you how to use the powerful set of Android tools to begin writing the next generation of Android applications. Chris provides a complete introduction to developing for Google’s mobile OS, offering tons of insights and hard-earned advice. After a tour of how to install and configure the Android SDK and Eclipse IDE, you jump right in, building your first Android project. Chris starts off with how to use the major building blocks to create an intuitive and good-looking interface. Next, he shows you how to retrieve data and how to use lists to display data. Chris then explores how to use services important, and often under-utilized, components of the Android platform. Chris examines how to handle media and location services before showing you how to write applications for the Android ecosystem. Download eBook Free »
Author Jason Ostrander walks developers through the different choices available on their way to creating a well-designed application for Android. While building a simple application, Jason works through the basics of Android UI development including layout, event handling, menus and notifications. The author then shows the proper way to load and display images, create advanced dialogs and progress indicators, add animation, and how to build custom UI elements. Jason discusses the proper way of adding interaction through gestures and the advanced graphical options available using Canvas, Renderscript and OpenGL. Finally, he discusses tablet development, the unique differences between phone and tablet UI, and the new APIs available to tablet developers.
Android UI Fundamentals: Develop and Design
Author Jason Ostrander walks developers through the different choices available on their way to creating a well-designed application for Android. While building a simple application, Jason works through the basics of Android UI development including layout, event handling, menus and notifications. The author then shows the proper way to load and display images, create advanced dialogs and progress indicators, add animation, and how to build custom UI elements. Jason discusses the proper way of adding interaction through gestures and the advanced graphical options available using Canvas, Renderscript and OpenGL. Finally, he discusses tablet development, the unique differences between phone and tablet UI, and the new APIs available to tablet developers. Download eBook Free »
This book teaches developers how to implement core frameworks in their iOS apps. Core frameworks provide low-level API access to some of iOS’s underlying technologies including Graphics and Drawing, Animation, Physical device motion tracking, and location services. The book also shows how to hand off some of these services to background processing like background notifications, audio and location.
Apple has made it easy to get started developing for iOS out of the box. To access the true power of iOS, however, you need to go beyond these simple tools and APIs. Experienced app developer Shawn Welch teaches you how to tap into the true potential of iOS by incorporating some of the most powerful technologies it has to offer.
iOS 5 Core Frameworks: Develop and Design: Working with graphics, location, iCloud, and more
Using Core Data and iCloud, you’ll learn how to store information locally and sync seamlessly across multiple devices and platforms. Leverage iOS 5′s new Twitter APIs, which provide painless Twitter and OAuth support using the new Accounts framework. Use Location Services to incorporate new iOS 5 features, such as reverse geolocation lookup and region notifications. Incorporate rich media into your apps using Graphics, Animation, Audio, Video, and post-processing photo filters and analysis through Core Image. Finally, explore Newsstand, which lets you create your own periodical content and push new content to devices, even when the app is not running. Download eBook Free »