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Painting the Web: Catching the User's Eyes - and Keeping Them on Your Site Paperback – June 10 2008
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Painting the Web is the first comprehensive book on web graphics to come along in years, and author Shelley Powers demonstrates how readers of any level can take advantage of the graphics and animation capabilities built into today's powerful browsers. She covers GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs, raster and vector graphics, CSS, Ajax effects, the canvas objects, SVG, geographical applications, and more -- everything that designers (and non-designers) use to literally paint the Web.
More importantly, Shelley's own love of web graphics shines through in every example. Not only can you master the many different techniques, you also can have fun doing it.
Topics in Painting the Web include:
- GIF, JPEG, PNG, lossy versus lossless compression, color management, and optimization
- Photo workflow, from camera to web page, including a review of photo editors, workflow tools, and RAW photo utilities
- Tricks for best displaying your photos online
- Non-photographic raster images (icons and logos), with step-by-step tutorials for creating popular "Web 2.0" effects like reflection, shiny buttons, inlays, and shadows
- Vector graphics
- An SVG tutorial, with examples of all the major components
- Tips and tricks for using CSS
- Interactive effects with Ajax such as accordions and fades
- The canvas object implemented in most browsers
- Geographical applications such as Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, with programming and non-programming examples
- Visual effects such as forms and data displays in table or graphics
- Web design for the non-designer
Graphics are not essential to the web experience, but they do make the difference between a site that's functional and one that's lively, compelling, and exciting. Whether you want to spruce up a website, use photos to annotate your stories, create hot graphics, or provide compelling displays for your data, this is the book for you.
- ISBN-10059651509X
- ISBN-13978-0596515096
- Edition1st
- PublisherO'Reilly Media
- Publication dateJune 10 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions17.78 x 4.29 x 23.34 cm
- Print length655 pages
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- Publisher : O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (June 10 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 655 pages
- ISBN-10 : 059651509X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0596515096
- Item weight : 1.25 kg
- Dimensions : 17.78 x 4.29 x 23.34 cm
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About the author

Plain. Writer.
Shelley Powers has been working with, and writing about, web technologies--from the first release of JavaScript to the latest graphics and design tools--for more than 25 years. Her recent O'Reilly books have covered JavaScript, Node, and HTML5.
In addition to her writing on technology, Shelley is expanding her writing to other topic areas, including politics, civics, the environment, and the law.
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The topics range far and wide, but much of the content is on obscure things like SVG that never really caught on, things like that. Other parts cover stuff that anyone who does any amount of web design has learned many years ago.
I don't really think this is ideal for any audience of book buyer. It certainly wasn't right for me.