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Plug-In CSS 100 Power Solutions

mheasiacomputing — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:00:26 +0000

Plug-In CSS 100 Power Solutions

Author: Robin Nixon
ISBN: 9780071748766 / 0071748768
©2011 | 1st Edition | 320 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: FEB-11
Price: US$ 40.00
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100 CSS and HTML power solutions in one handy guide

Plug-in CSS is filled with with ready-to-use CSS and HTML solutions for creating dynamic websites. Save hundreds of hours of programming time! Make your website look great with custom fonts, animated menu systems, individually styled forms, and other effects. This practical guide shows you how to do all of these things and much more using simple style sheet plug-ins.

This practical guide takes you through each example step by step so there’s no need to look up anything elsewhere. Every solution is complete and applicable immediately. The book can be dipped into as required with each chapter being self contained. Plus, you can download all the style sheets and HTML from the book’s companion website.

Plug-in CSS

Gives you 100 ready-to-use CSS and HTML solutions
Solves a single problem or set of problems in each chapter with the entire solution available
Features a companion website with all the book’s ready-to-run examples available for download
Covers all the main dynamic features a webmaster needs to accomplish

About the Author

Robin Nixon (Kent, UK) is a developer and freelance technical writer who has published more than 500 articles in magazines such as , and PC Answers. He is the author of five computing books, including Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions and Plug-in JavaScript: 100 Power Solutions.

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9780072258950 HTML QuickSteps
9780071611435 HTML A Beginner’s Guide
9780071633178 HTML, XHTML & CSS QuickSteps

Table of Contents

Part I: About CSS and These Plug-ins
Chapter 1 How to Use the Plug-ins
Chapter 2 CSS Crash Course

Part II: The Classes
Chapter 3 Manipulating Objects
Chapter 4 Text and Typography
Chapter 5 Menus and Navigation
Chapter 6 Page Layout
Chapter 7 Visual Effects

Part III: The Dynamic Classes
Chapter 8 Dynamic Objects
Chapter 9 Dynamic Text and Typography
Chapter 10 Dynamic Interaction
Chapter 11 Incorporating JavaScript
Chapter 12 Superclasses

Index

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The Technical Author – Robin Nixon

mheasiacomputing — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:16:14 +0000

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). During this time he has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the U.K.’s top computer magazines.

Robin started his computing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, and for evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology – sometimes by means of only a single switch operated by mouth or finger.

After writing articles for computer magazines about his work with disabled people, he eventually worked full time for one of the country’s main IT magazine publishers, where he held several roles including editorial, promotions, and cover disc editing.

With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites. One of these presented the world’s first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders, and was featured in several news reports on TV and radio networks in the United Kingdom. In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.

Robin lives on the southeast coast of England with his wife Julie, a trained nurse, and five children, where he also finds time to foster three disabled children, as well as working full time from home as a technical author.

Robin has contributed an article to “The Daily Tip” section on “IT World,” and Plug-In PHP is one of the featured books on the company’s web site. For a look at the article, please click HERE.

Books by Robin Nixon

Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166659-6
ISBN-10: 0071666591
©2010 | 1st Edition | 384 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: February 2010
Price: US$ 39.99
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Plug-In JavaScript 100 Power Solutions

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-173861-3
ISBN-10: 0071738614
©2011 | 1st Edition | 400 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: May 2010
Price: US$ 39.99
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Filled with ready-to-use JavaScript solutions for creating dynamic web content, this practical guide is will save hundreds of hours of programming time!

Plug-in JavaScript is aimed at people who have learned basic HTML (and perhaps a little CSS) but are interested in doing more. For example, they may wish to create more dynamic menu systems, provide mouse hover effects, and support Ajax functionality. This practical guide shows readers how to do all of these things and much more using very simple JavaScript.

Readers are taken through each example step by step. All explanations are included so there is no need to look up anything elsewhere. Every solution is complete and applicable immediately. The book can be dipped into as required with each chapter being self-contained.

Features

100 ready-to-use JavaScript solutions—saves over 500 hours of programming time
Author based in the UK and writes for several UK-based computing magazines
Each chapter solves a single problem or set of problems, is self-contained, and features the entire solution in JavaScript code
Companion website includes all the book’s ready-to-run examples available for download
While not a programming tutorial, the book fully explains all solutions should readers want to know how they work

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Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions

mheasiacomputing — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:01:49 +0000

Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions

Authors: Nixon, Robin
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166659-6
ISBN-10: 0071666591
©2010 | 1st Edition | 384 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: March 2010
Price: US$ 39.99

100 PHP power solutions in one handy guide

This practical resource contains 100 ready-to-run PHP plug-ins you can use to create dynamic Web content. The book begins by showing you how to install, configure, and use a powerful web development environment. Then, each chapter in Plug-In PHP offers complete, working examples for specific end results you can achieve right away. In this time-saving tool, all of the code is extensively documented along with tips for adapting it for your own requirements.

Get ready-made PHP plug-ins for:

Text processing
Image handling
Content management
Forms and user input
Internet integration
Chat and messaging
MySQL, sessions, and cookies
APIs, RSS, and XML
JavaScript and Ajax
Geo-location
Spelling and language translation
And much more

Download all of the book’s plug-ins at www.pluginphp.com

About the Author

Robin Nixon (UK) is a developer and freelance technical writer who has published more than 500 articles in magazines such as PC Plus, PCW, Web User, .net, PC Advisor, and PC Answers. He is the author of 3 computing books, including the upcoming Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript (O’Reilly).

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