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Interactivity has moved from a cool differentiating element to a mandatory and often central aspect of Web design. To deliver the goods for their increasingly demanding clients, more and more designers are turning to Flash as their program of choice.

The latest book in Rockport’s popular Web Tricks and Techniques series offers designers an in-depth tutorial on using Flash to create standout interactive Web pages. The only book on Flash to focus exclusively on the critical topic of interactivity, this hands-on guide explores the best techniques for grabbing and keeping users’ attention in the highly competitive environment of the Web. From rollovers to cruiser polls to shopping cart technology, each interactive trick is accompanied by detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations.

Covering a range of Flash-generated techniques from the simple to the complex, this user-friendly guide will help designers of all levels create Web pages that keep users coming back for more.

Daniel Donnelly is the publisher of InYourFace.com, a Web-based multimedia design magazine. He is also the author of In Your Face: The Best of Interactive Interface Design; In Your Face Too: The Best Interactive Interface Design; Cutting Edge Web Design: The Next Generation; Upload: Taking Print to the Web; and the forthcoming WWW Design: Flash. He lives in Chico, California.

Web Tricks and Techniques: Interactive Pages with Flash: Fast Solutions for Hands-On Web Design

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This user-friendly text is specifically designed for K-12 educators and clearly demonstrates how tointegrate new media and technology in a classroom setting. The Internet and Web Design for Teachers guides readers, step-by-step, with minimal technical jargon through a process of creating Web pages-and even entire virtual schools.

Internet and Web Design for Teachers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Virtual Classroom

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This is our selection of contemporary award-winning video campaigns and websites. The YouTube phenomenon is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the presence and importance of video on the web today. Everywhere you surf, videos abound; with increasing bandwidth speeds come more and more possibilities for the moving image to find its place in every nook and cranny of the web, whether to sell products or entertain or both. This book brings together a number of award-winning campaigns and websites produced for top brands worldwide, demonstrating the connection between the worlds of television and internet.

Web Design: Video Sites

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ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR FIRST-TIME DESIGNERS: Learn the basics of Web design from the tutorials and examples in this easy-to-follow, project-based guide. Web design expert Wendy Willard takes you on a tour of the essentials of Web design, from analyzing your needs and planning your site to the nuts and bolts of page development with text, graphics, tables, frames, forms, scripts, and multimedia. You’ll also learn Web authoring technologies like JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML/XHTML, and more. If you want to get started creating effective and efficient Web sites right away, this is the ideal self-paced learning tool for you.

Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide

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This one-stop resource is a complete course in designing Web sites, and includes the “drag and drop” clip-art, design templates, games, banner ads, buttons, forms and source code to build Web sites and transact business on the Internet.

Key Features – Covers everything from basic html tagging, JavaScript, and XHTML, to banner ads and interactive e-commerce sites
– “Job Profiles” take actual sites and discuss schedules, costs and client needs
– Each section includes activities to master and review before moving to the next topic
– Accompanying CD contains three, FREE Web development packages, shopping cart and text editing demos, Paint Shop Pro demos, and Web certification sample test questions!
– Runs on Windows and Macs

Web Design & Development