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Painting the Web Catching the User's Eyes - and Keeping Them on Your Site

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ISBN-10: 059651509X

ISBN-13: 9780596515096

Edition: 2008

Authors: Shelley Powers

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Do you think that only professionals with expensive tools and years of experience can work with web graphics? This guide tosses that notion into the trash bin. 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…    
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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 655
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.662
Language: English

Shelley Powers is an independent contractor, currently living in St. Louis, who specializes in technology architecture and software development. She's authored several computer books, including Developing ASP Components, Unix Power Tools 3rd edition, Essential Blogging, and Practical RDF. In addition, Shelley has also written several articles related primarily to web technology, many for O'Reilly. Shelley's web site network is at http://burningbird.net , and her weblog is Burningbird, at http://weblog.burningbird.net .

Preface
How to Use This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
How to Contact Us
Safari(r) Books Online
Acknowledgments
You Must Have Fun
What Was Good Enough for Grandpappy...
Draw Me!
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Graphics: Taste Great, Less Filling
It Hurts! Make It Stop!
Web Graphics Hall of Shame
On with the Wondrous Variety
Imagine
Raster Graphics and RGB Color 101
JPEG
GIF: Lossless and Paletted
PNG
Images: Annotated, Embedded, and Optimized
Steal This: Images, Copyright, and Hotlinking
Image Storage
Photographs: From Camera to Web Page
The Web Photographer's Workflow
Working with RAW Images
Editing Photos: Bending Light
Color Match That Group: Optimization in Numbers
It's Black and White and Not Red All Over
The Illustrative Effect
Knockouts and Extractions
A Survey of Desktop Photo Editors
Online Editors: Fauxto and Picnik
Photo Workflow Software
Photo Workflow: Camera to Web Redux
The Web As Frame
The Art of Thumbnail Sizing
The Creative Art of Thumbnails
Expanding Thumbnails
Embedding Photos: Condiment and Spice
Plating Photos
Generated Galleries and Slideshows
Gallery Software on the Server
A Bit of Code
Pop Graphics
The Graphic Toolbox: Shapes, Layers, Gradient, and Blur
Shiny Buttons:Gel, Wet, and Glass
Badges and Bows: Beyond the Buttons
Reflecting on Reflection, and Shadowing Revisited
Reverse-Engineering Ideas
Instant in Time: Screenshots
Vector This: Early Days and Markup
WebCGM
The 3Ds
VML
Hello SVG
SVG Bootcamp
SVG Full, Basic, and Tiny
Browser Support: Standoffish or Integrated
The Structure of the SVG Space
SVG Elements
Paths, Patterns, and Markers
Revisiting the Viewport and the viewBox
Transformations
SVG Tools
Static SVG Secrets
CSS Uber Zone
Selector Magic
CSS Tips and Tricks
Div Play Dough
CSS Tools and Utilities
Design for the Non-Designer
The Elements of Page Design
Web Pages Are Like Ogres, and Ogres Have Layers
Flexible Designs
Colors: Make Your Page Happy, Ma