Combine basic art and design principles with creative storytelling to create compelling style frames, design boards, and motion design projects.Here, in one volume, Austin Shaw covers all the principles any serious motion designer needs to know in order to make their artistic visions a reality and confidently produce compositions for clients, including:Illustration techniquesTypographyCompositingCinematographyIncorporating 3D elementsMatte paintingConcept development, and much moreLessons are augmented by illustrious full color imagery and practical exercises, allowing you to put the techniques covered into immediate practical context. Industry leaders and pioneers, including Karin Fong, Bradley G Munkowitz (GMUNK), Will Hyde, Erin Sarofsky, Danny Yount, and many more, contribute their professional perspectives, share personal stories, and provide visual examples of their work.Additionally, a robust companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/shaw) features project files, video tutorials, bonus PDFs, and rolling updates to keep you informed on the latest developments in the field.

    This friendly, comprehensive guide will teach you everything you need to know to create and maintain stylish, effective websites that please clients, customers, viewers, and you.

    That’s why Smashing Magazine created a new book — to gather practical techniques and strategies from people who have learned how to get things done right, in actual projects with actual real-world challenges.The Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design is Smashing Magazine’s brand new book with smart front-end techniques and design patterns derived from real-life responsive projects. Part 1 features 7 chapters on responsive workflow, SVG, Flexbox, content strategy, and design patterns — just what you need to master all the tricky facets and hurdles of responsive design. Written by Daniel Mall, Ben Callahan, Eileen Webb, Sara Soueidan, Vitaly Friedman and Zoe M. Gillenwater.Please note that the corresponding Part 2 is also available with even more responsive web design tips and tricks — among others on web fonts, responsive images, email design, performance, debugging and optimizing for offline.TABLE OF CONTENTS:•A Responsive Way Forward — written by Vitaly Friedman•The Modern Responsive Designer’s Workflow — written by Dan Mall•Responsive Process — written by Ben Callahan•Responsive Design Patterns And Components — written by Vitaly Friedman•Content Choreography In RWD — written by Eileen Webb•Mastering SVG For Responsive Web Design — written by Sara Soueidan•Building Advanced Responsive Modules With Flexbox — written by Zoe M. Gillenwater

    In both instances, you will need a strategy. Read this book to get clarity on the 10 steps required to create an action plan so you know with certainty that your website will be successful. You NOW hold in your hands, the proven system highly paid experts use TO PLAN A SUCCESSFUL Website - Identify your target audience so that you know who you are marketing to - Avoid the beginner's mistakes that could cost you time, money and missed opportunity - Brief and manage developers to ensure your website comes in on time and to budget - Automate key tasks and win back time so you can work on, rather than in, your business - Learn more than the average web developer about the strategies, tools and techniques that deliver tangible results Steve Woody has the privilege of working with hundreds of clients from solo-preneurs to multi-million pound businesses, charities, record labels and world class athletes. He has built websites in over 10 countries. They say it takes 10,000 hours to become a master in a chosen area. Steve is a Master when it comes to creating successful websites and you hold in your hands the fast track guide to years of his learnings.

    

    It covers plenty of solid theory, but is also packed with useful, real world hints and tips that you can use on your sites today.Topics covered include: User experience, design and performanceMeasuring and monitoring performanceSetting up a page weight budgetNetwork and server improvementsOptimizing images and videoOptimizing scripts and third party contentLean DOM operationsThe book also comes with a handy "cheat sheet" summarizing many of the key tips contained within the book.

    Content that is intuitive, compelling and flexible. With the help of this eBook, you will learn to face the content challenge. Take it as your guide through the critical phases of content planning, production and maintenance, your partner in crime to develop your content strategy.In this eBook we’ll cover practical editing tips just like strategies to improve your information architecture. Ideas on how to run a content-planning workshop help you get everyone in your team pulling in the same direction. Furthermore, our authors share strategies for a content audit that is bound to tame the daunting beast that a mass of content can easily turn into. And to ensure your content is useful on every device, we’ll provide tips for developing a mobile content strategy. Don’t let your content be only a sidekick. Give it the same attention and care you put into designing all the other bits of your product and you’ll see its real power unfolding.TABLE OF CONTENTS- Editing Tips For Business Web Content, written by Brad Shorr- Framing Effective Messages To Motivate Your Users, written by Victor Yocco- Ways To Avoid Overwhelming Users: Lessons Learned From My High-School Teachers, written by Jon Bernbach- How To Run A Content-Planning Workshop, written by James Deer- Help Your Content Go Anywhere With A Mobile Content Strategy, written by Kerry Crawford- Improving Your Information Architecture With Card-Sorting: A Beginner’s Guide, written by Pierre Croft- Content Knowledge Is Power, written by Sara Wachter-Boettcher- Dealing With Redundant, Out-Of-Date And Trivial (ROT) Content, written by Paul Boag

    Each lesson is designed to take you less than an hour to complete. All the basics of CSS through to more advanced features like adding dynamic effects, animation, transitions, and web fonts are covered. This practical guide also introduces just enough of the additional technologies and techniques-like HTML and JavaScript-needed to complete the lessons.One-hour lessons teach practical techniques that can be applied immediately Wrap ups contain a summary, tips for further study, and self-test questions Online video accompanying each lesson offer valuable, step-by-step instruction

    If not, don’t worry for you’ll understand what it is after reading this book. With bootstrap, you can create web pages that will scroll well on any device. Something like a table, which might seem difficult to fit on a cell phone can be made to do this using bootstrap. This explains how powerful bootstrap is. This can also be done without too much coding and in a short period of time. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: Getting started with Bootstrap Fixed Layout with Bootstrap Tables in Bootstrap Creating Forms with Bootstrap Styling Images with Bootstrap Buttons in Bootstrap Modals in Bootstrap and so on…Download your copy of "Bootstrap 3.3" by scrolling up and clicking "Buy Now With 1-Click" button.Tags: Web Framework, Bootstrap, Bootstrap for beginners, Web Design

    

    It will help you take your first steps into the world of website creation. What You Will Learn Launch your website quickly with the help of a quick WordPress installation guide Create content that is optimized for publishing on the Web Create a quality website with a proper assembly of important subpages Install and work with plugins and widgets Install and create attractive themes for your website Create custom menus to improve the user experience of your website Upload multimedia content such as images, audio, and video easily and effectively Build your first plugins and widgets to add features to your website Expand the features of WordPress for creating non-blogging websites and administer them In Detail With WordPress, anyone can build an optimized website with the least amount of effort possible and then make it available to the world in no time.This book will serve as a practical guide for everyone who intends to become an online publisher, website owner, or even a website developer. Beginning with the basic features of WordPress, the book lays a solid foundation to deal with advanced and complex features. It then moves on to helping you choose and install various themes.Gradually, with increasing complexity, the book goes into the development of your own themes, acting as a beginner's guide to theme and plugin development.Concluding the learning curve with miscellaneous tasks such as community blogging and administrating the established site, this book empowers you with the ability to maintain your site.