Jonathan Lane, Meitar Moscovitz, Joseph R. Lewis “Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript"
friends of ED | 2008-07-21 | ISBN: 1430209917 | 334 pages | PDF | 6 MB

This book covers the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides you with all the information you'll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional, best-practice-based results.
There is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place, and this book introduces you to the agile development process, explaining why this method makes so much sense for web projects and how best to implement it. Planning is vital, so you'll also learn how to use techniques such as brainstorming, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to get your project off to the best possible start and help ensure smooth progress as it develops.
An understanding of correct, semantic markup is essential to any web professional, so this book explains how XHTML should be used to structure content so that the markup adheres to current web standards. You'll learn about the wide range of HTML elements available to you, and you'll learn how and when to use them through building example web pages.
Without creative use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), websites would all look largely the same. CSS gives you the ability to set your website apart from the rest while maintaining the integrity of your markup. You'll learn how CSS works and how to apply styles to your pages, enabling you to realize your design ideas in the browser.
JavaScript can be used to make your website easier and more interesting to use. This book provides information on appropriate uses of this technology and introduces the concepts of programming using it. You'll also see how JavaScript works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax and in turn where Ajax fits into the wider Web 2.0 picture.
While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of ability or disability, and the book explains how best to do these tasks. Then, it discusses the process of launching and maintaining the site so that it will continue to work for all its users throughout its life-cycle.
The book concludes by covering server-side technologies, acting as a guide to the different options available and explaining differences between available products. With insights from renowned experts such as Jason Fried of 37signals, Daniel Burka of Digg and Pownce, and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Foundation Website Creation provides invaluable information applicable to every web project, regardless of size, scope, or budget.

Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly
encounter. Russ Olsen has done a great job of selecting classic patterns and augmenting these with
newer patterns that have special relevance for Ruby. He clearly explains each idea, making a wealth
of experience available to Ruby developers for their own daily work."
—Steve Metsker, Managing Consultant with Dominion Digital, Inc.
This book provides a great demonstration of the key 'Gang of Four' design patterns without resorting
to overly technical explanations. Written in a precise, yet almost informal style, this book covers
enough ground that even those without prior exposure to design patterns will soon feel confident
applying them using Ruby. Olsen has done a great job to make a book about a classically 'dry' subject
into such an engaging and even occasionally humorous read.

Author(s) : James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Publisher : Addison Wesley
Year : Mar 2004
ISBN 10: 0321159632
ISBN 13: 9780321159632
Language : English
Pages : 544
File type : CHM
Size : 6.5 MB

This book is a practical guide for developers and information technology managers. It is focused on conveying what elements make up a portal and how to construct these elements using the Microsoft development platform. It is a combination of introductions to key concepts, suggestions for portal planning, and limited detailed technical instruction by way of examples that relate to all the main portal elements. Most chapters describe what to build and then show how to build it.

The most important section for managers is the first five chapters. These chapters address the portal from the perspective of a user and provide valuable background that can help managers form reasonable project expectations. The focus is not on individual products and features. Indeed, portals with the functionality described here could be implemented with a number of different technologies and products, and these are introduced in the second part of the book.

Developers will spend more time with the remainder of the book to understand how to fill the gap between products and where each portal service belongs. They will want to review the early chapters to understand the vision for a .NET portal and to ensure that the IT manager doesn't know something that they don't. These later chapters do not attempt to restate the vast amount of information in help files and product documentation for the products used in our examples. Rather, our goal is to create a higher-level overview that encompasses multiple products and puts each product and feature in its proper place. We also highlight best practices and hints that are not found in the product documentation but can save many hours of work or frustration.

There are no prerequisites for grasping the material in this book, as it explains the anatomy of a portal from the ground up. Our goals are to provide a compelling vision for portals that can be applied to your business requirements and to explain in detail how this vision maps to the Microsoft .NET Framework and web services.

Web mining aims to discover useful information or knowledge from the Web hyperlink structure, page content and usage log. Based on the primary kind of data used in the mining process, Web mining tasks are categorized into three main types: Web structure mining, Web content mining and Web usage mining. The goal of this book is to present these tasks, and their essential algorithms. It is written for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers and development professionals in the field. No prior knowledge of data mining or statistics is assumed. In fact, the book covers the essential topics of data mining as well.

Author(s) : W. Clay Richardson, Donald Avondolio, Joe Vitale, Peter Len, Kevin B. Smith
Publisher : Wrox
Year : Feb 2004
ISBN 10 : 0471469513
ISBN 13 : 9780471469513
Language : English
Pages : 456
File type : PDF
Size : 12.5 MB (book + source code)

Open source technology enables you to build customized enterprise portal frameworks with more flexibility and fewer limitations. This book explains the fundamentals of a powerful set of open source tools and shows you how to use them.

Portal development projects have become the centerpiece of IT acquisition and development strategy for many organizations. Enterprise integration and Web application developers predictably groan when they hear the word �portal� � nightmares of proprietary APIs, oversold features, and shoddy tool integrations. The authors of this book have been involved in over a dozen production portal efforts over the last several years. In that time, we have dealt with numerous products and frameworks, including some in-house frameworks based on servlets and JSPs. Through all of this, we began to wonder whether these commercial suites were really providing any value. We started to realize that we could put together a framework from open-source products.

We would like to point out that our portal framework is not meant to be an all-or-nothing solution. We present a number of tools that you may use to satisfy your enterprise portal needs, and we demonstrate how to use them, but because portal efforts are largely integration efforts, it would be folly to presume that anyone will drop all of their current systems and pick up our framework.

This book explains a set of tools at the foundation of an open-source portal framework, and demonstrates how to build your own portal using open-source tools. However, before describing the structure of the book, it makes sense to cover some fundamental concepts addressed therein.

Author(s) : Marco Bellinaso, Kevin Hoffman
Publisher : Wrox
Year : Mar 2002
ISBN 10 : 0764543776
ISBN 13 : 9780764543777
Language : English
Pages : 576
File type : CHM
Size : 11.2 MB (book + source code)


Welcome to ASP.NET Website Programming. In this book we will build an interactive, content-based website using expandable, interchangeable modules. By the end of the book you will have developed your ASP.NET skills for producing effective, well-engineered, extendable websites.

ASP.NET is a great tool for building websites. It contains many built-in features that would take thousands of lines of code in classic ASP. And it does not require admin rights in order to deploy compiled components - your whole site can be deployed in one folder.

This book will guide you through the bewildering features available to ASP.NET developers, highlighting the most useful and exciting.

The book concentrates on websites that focus on content. It does not show how to produce an e-commerce system, although a lot of the advice will apply to e-commerce sites. We could add a shopping basket module using the same foundations, for example.

This book is different to most Wrox books, because we build a single working website throughout the book. However, each chapter stands alone and shows how to develop individual modules, which you can adapt for your own websites. We also suggest a framework that allows us to create modules and slot them in to the website quickly and easily.

The book is for developers who have a reasonable knowledge of ASP.NET, and want to apply that knowledge to building websites. You will get the most from this book if you have read a decent amount of Wrox's Beginning ASP.NET using C#, or Professional ASP.NET and a C# book.

Author(s) : Hank Meyne, Scott Davis
Publisher : Wiley
Year : Apr 2002
ISBN 10 : 0471120901
ISBN 13 : 9780471120902
Language : English
Pages : 448
File type : PDF
Size : 2.4 MB (book + source code)

This book will take the reader through the process of developing an entire suite of enterprise applications using the .NET Framework. Specifically, we will go in depth on all key aspects of enterprise application development using the full power of ASP.NET and C#.

Each chapter will explain its topics by example, and at the end of the book, you will have an application that touches on many of the things that can be done in a Web application, and all in the .NET way. We believe that we can help the reader understand the theories behind the features of ASP.NET and, at the same time, give real-world examples that would likely be a part of a large-scale system. As each chapter progresses, we will add functionality to the overall system using the features that are relevant to the chapter.

In addition, we will include multiple ways of doing things, where applicable, because your applications will have different requirements. We won’t hold back on the .NET Framework either; although the book is specifically for teaching how to write ASP.NET Web apps, we will try to include as much of the base class functionality of .NET as we can while keeping with the overall sample. We will also try to do things in C# that show off the power and features of the language. We won’t try to keep the examples too simple for fear of the reader’s not knowing enough about the particular language. This is a book about C#, too, and it will include many nontrivial examples of the language throughout.

This book is for programmers looking for an in-depth look at ASP.NET. The concepts and examples provided range from beginner to advanced level.

All examples in this book were written using Visual Studio .NET, on both Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server. Before running any of the examples, make sure Internet Information Services is installed and running.