Coding with JavaScript For Dummies


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Go from beginner to builder quickly with this hands-on JavaScript guide Coding with JavaScript For Dummies provides easy, hands-on instruction for anyone looking to learn this popular client-side language. No experience? No problem! This friendly guide starts from the very beginning and walks you through the basics, then shows you how to apply what you've learned to real projects. You'll start building right away, including web page elements and simple applications, so you can immediately see how JavaScript is used in the real world. Online exercises allow you to test your code and expand your skills, and the easy-to-follow instruction provides step-by-step guidance toward understanding the JavaScript syntax, applications, and language. JavaScript enhances static web pages by providing dynamic elements that can adapt and react to user action. It's a need-to-know tool for aspiring web designers, but anyone can benefit from understanding this core development language. Coding with JavaScript For Dummies takes you from beginner to builder quickly as you: Learn what JavaScript does, how it works, and where to use it Master the core elements of JavaScript and immediately put it to work Build interactive web elements and try out your code online Create basic applications as you apply JavaScript to the app development workflow Anytime a website responds to your movement around the screen, that's JavaScript. It makes websites more functional, more beautiful, and more engaging, and your site visitors will demand nothing less. If you want to build a better website, you need JavaScript. If you need JavaScript, Coding with JavaScript For Dummies gets you started off quickly and painlessly, with plenty of hands-on practice.




HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Mobile Development For Dummies


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Master the art of designing web pages for mobile devices--a site for small screens! When designing a web page for mobile devices, the big thing is--think small! Your objective is to provide what the mobile user wants without losing the "wow" in your website. This book shows you how to do it using three key technologies. Soon you'll be building mobile pages with forms, quizzes, appropriate graphics, shopping carts, and more! Think mobile--consider screen size, lack of a mouse, duel orientation screens, and mobile browsers. Know your audience--understand how people use the mobile web and how their habits differ from those of desktop users Get interactive--optimize multimedia files and develop contact forms that encourage visitors to interact with your site. Latest and greatest--maximize the new features of HTML5 and CSS3, automate your site with JavaScript, and use WebKit Extensions. Be sure they find you--make your mobile site both easily searchable and search engine-friendly. Open the book and find: Why you should know WURFL ; A system for keeping your site up to date ; All about bitmap and vector images ; Easy ways to adjust your site for different devices ; Powerful SEO ideas to get your site noticed ; Tips for creating a mobile shopping cart ; How to take your blog theme mobile ; Ten mobile CSS-friendly apps and widgets Learn to: Use standard web tools to build sites for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android platforms ; Optimize sites for all mobile devices ; Accommodate different mobile browsers and security features ; Take advantage of HTML5--back cover.




HTML5 Programming with JavaScript For Dummies


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Web designers and programmers, add JavaScript to your HTML5 development toolkit without fear Modern websites are complex, and some of the most exciting features - things like geolocation, canvas, portability to mobile and more - require JavaScript to leverage what HTML5 can create. Don't know JavaScript? That's where HTML5 Programming with JavaScript For Dummies comes in. Rather than walking you through JavaScript as a programming language, it approaches JavaScript as a tool to help you enhance web pages. Helps web designers and programmers tap the full power of HTML5 by leveraging JavaScript, even if they have no prior knowledge of JavaScript Enables readers to produce modern websites with today's technology essentials: portability to mobile devices, animation, the use of Libraries, the Canvas component, and more Emphasizes practical uses and offers many short examples for illustration Discover basic to complex ways to use JavaScript programming syntax to harness the full power of HTML5 and CSS3.




HTML5 Game Development For Dummies


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Create games with graphics that pop for the web and mobile devices! HTML5 is the tool game developers and designers have been eagerly awaiting. It simplifies the job of creating graphically rich, interactive games for the Internet and mobile devices, and this easy-to-use guide simplifies the learning curve. Illustrated in full color, the book takes you step by step through the basics of HTML5 and how to use it to build interactive games with 2D graphics, video, database capability, and plenty of action. Learn to create sports and adventure games, pong games, board games, and more, for both mobile devices and the standard web. Learn to use the new HTML5 technology that makes it easier to create games with lots of action, colorful 2D graphics, and interactivity--for both the web and mobile devices Test and debug your games before deploying them Take advantage of how HTML5 allows for SQL-like data storage, which is especially valuable if you're not well versed in database management Explore creating games suitable for community activity and powerful, profitable games that require large amounts of data Whether you want to build games as a fun hobby or hope to launch a new career, this full-color guide covers everything you need to know to make the most of HTML5 for game design.




Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies


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Your full-color, friendly guide to getting started with HTML5 and CSS3! HTML and CSS are essential tools for creating dynamic websites and help make your websites even more effective and unique. This friendly-but-straightforward guide gets you started with the basics of the latest versions of HTML and CSS: HTML5 and CSS3. Introducing you to the syntax and structure of the languages, this helpful guide shows you how to create and view a web page, explains ideal usage of HTML5 and CSS3, walks you through the CSS3 rules and style sheets, addresses common mistakes and explains how to fix them, and explores interesting HTML5 tools. Serves as an ideal introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 for beginners with little to no web development experience Details the capabilities of HTML5 and CSS3 and how to use both to create responsive, practical, and well-designed websites Helps you understand how HTML5 and CSS3 are the foundation upon which hundreds of millions of web pages are built Features full-color illustrations to enhance your learning process Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies is the perfect first step for getting started with the fundamentals of web development and design.




HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies


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A new edition of a bestseller covers the latest advances in web development! HTML5 and CSS3 are essential tools for creating dynamic websites and boast updates and enhanced features that can make your websites even more effective and unique. This friendly, all-in-one guide covers everything you need to know about each of these technologies and their latest versions so that you can use them together. Building on the bestselling formats of the first two editions, this new edition teaches you the fundamentals of HTML5 and CSS3, and then presents ways for using them with JavaScript, MySQL, and Ajax to create websites that work. Covers using JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Ajax in the context of programming dynamic web pages with CSS3 and HTML5 Includes self-contained minibooks that review HTML, CSS, design and layout, client-side JavaScript, Ajax and server-side, and putting it all together Examines new web development advancements including new technologies and changes to the standards Features a website that contains supporting materials including code and several valuable programs that are useful for web development HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition serves as the perfect reference for both web development beginners and seasoned professionals looking to learn more about how to get the most out of the powerful combination of HTML5 and CSS3.




Head First HTML5 Programming


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"Head First HTML5" introduces key features including improved text elements, audio and video tags, geolocation, and the Canvas drawing surface. Concrete examples and exercises are applied to reinforce these concepts.




PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies


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In charge of a website? Here's what you need to know about key web technologies! Learn how the four essential web technologies work together to create web services, validate web forms, and set up a members-only site!




HTML5 Canvas For Dummies


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Create eye-popping visuals on the fly with HTML5 Canvas Now part of the HTML5 standard tool, Canvas gives programmers the ability to add images, animation, and sound to mobile and regular websites on the fly, in JavaScript, without needing any third-party tool or player. This practical For Dummies book clearly shows you how to get the most out of Canvas. It presents information in a friendly, non-intimidating way and helps you get started with the Canvas tag, create 2D drawings and images, add video and audio, build a basic game framework, weave spellbinding animation, and more. If you want to learn how to use HTML5 Canvas, this easy-to-follow guide is just the ticket. Shows web programmers, developers, and designers at beginner and intermediate HTML5 and JavaScript levels how to use the powerful HTML5 Canvas tag Helps you design and add images, animation, sound, and more to mobile and regular websites, without using any third-party tools or players Covers 2D drawings, text, and bitmap images; video and audio; how to build a basic game framework on Canvas; adding animation; and more Includes a JavaScript crash course Get started using HTML5 Canvas right away with HTML5 Canvas For Dummies.




Windows 8 Application Development with HTML5 For Dummies


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The fast and easy guide for creating Windows 8 apps using popular technologies! This book offers a primer for building HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript applications for Windows 8. It includes an up-to-date guide for dusting off an aging HTML skill set and adapting to the Windows 8 apps and provides a reference for Windows and .NET programmers not familiar with HTML5. The overall design principles of MetroUI (the new design paradigm for Windows) are discussed. The book also addresses visual design with HTML and CSS, which are the visual design languages to bring MetroUI applications to the screen. Finally, there is a section on using JavaScript for inter- and intra-functional components. Contains the design principles for MetroUI, the new design paradigm for Windows The author is an enterprise architect, seasoned programmer and web developer who specializes in implementing Microsoft solutions at his client sites Shows how to develop HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript applications for Windows 8 This is the ideal resource for current Microsoft developers who need a primer or refresher for developing in HTML and JavaScript for Windows.