Website Design and Development: 100 Questions to Ask Before Building a Website - PDF

Book Description
A helpful book-and-video package for building and maintaining a successful Web siteHow do you know that you've done everything possible to create a unique, enriching, and successful Web site, particularly when you're hiring others to do it? With Website Design and Development, you'll feel confident that you've exhausted every facet of building a Web site. The clever question-and-answer format walks you through easily overlooked details, acting as a virtual consultant. You'll get clear, easy-to-follow advice on everything from finding a host, design and layout, creating content, marketing, to staying secure. Each question features a rating as to how critical it is to the welfare of the site, allowing you to pick and choose where to spend your time and money, and the answers contain helpful illustrations as well as action points. In addition, your learning experience is further enhanced by the high-quality accompanying video.

• Contains professional advice for creating—and maintaining—a successful Web site
• Features an accompanying video that offers additional examples, commentary, and advice for each question.
• Lists questions you should ask yourself or your web developer and then presents clear, concise answers as well as helpful checklists
• Rates each topic as to its importance in the grand scheme of your Web site so that you can determine how to spend your time and money

Website Design and Development answers the essential questions that need to be asked before creating a Web site.

Book Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (November, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470889527
• ISBN-13: 978-0470889527

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Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide, 2nd Edition - PDF

Book Description
Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables.

Learn to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS  (no JavaScript required). Discover how to design code that works on the latest standard-compliant browsers, such as IE7 and current versions of Firefox, Safari, and Opera, while working around the quirks of the older ones. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get started and build your skills is right here in this book. You'll be stylin' in no time!

About the Author
Charles Wyke-Smith has been creating web sites since 1994 and currently serves as Director of User Experience for Charleston-based BenefitFocus. In recent years, Charles was VP of Web Development for eStar.com, a celebrity information site, and has provided web design and consulting services to companies including Wells Fargo, ESPN Videogames, and The University of San Francisco. His work today focuses on site development, with an emphasis on user experience, information architecture, and interface design. Charles has taught classes in multimedia and interface design and speaks at many industry conferences.

Book Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Press; 2nd Edition (December, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321525566
• ISBN-13: 978-0321525567

• File Size: 12.2 MiB
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SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action - PDF

Book Description
The integrity and security of your database is crucial to your business. SQL Server 2008 is a massive and mature product with a very large feature set. As a SQL Server administrator, you must be equipped to handle myriad day-to-day tasks to keep your database healthy, and you must also be prepared to act quickly when something unexpected happens.

SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action offers over 100 DBA-tested, high-value, best practices that will help you tame the beast and keep it under control. Unlike the many comprehensive SQL Server reference tomes out there that attempt to cover the whole SQL Server feature set, this book drills down on the techniques, procedures, and practices that help you keep your database running like clockwork.

SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action focuses the production DBA, digging deep into the various tasks specific to that role. Expert author Rod Colledge–check him out at sqlCrunch.com–teaches you best practices that cover the lifecycle of a SQL Server system, including infrastructure design, installation, and operational maintenance. And while many of these techniques will work in any recent version of SQL Server, you'll find full coverage of emerging SQL Server 2008 best practices.

Each technique is presented in a task-driven style, and in the order of the typical life cycle of a SQL Server system. This allows you to easily open the book at the appropriate page and focus on what you need to know for each specific situation.

What's Inside

• Selecting and configuring server components
• Distributing I/O load over multiple controllers
• Selecting the appropriate stripe size
• Configuring storage cache
• Preparing for SQL Server clustering
• Configure the private network for cluster use only
• Configure the cluster network priority
• Prepare resources for a clustered SQL Server installation
• Index selection and maintenance
• Identify and drop unused indexes
• Identify and create missing indexes
• Select the appropriate clustered index
• Database mirroring
• Prepare the mirror server for failover
• Select the appropriate failover mode
• Consider disabling log stream compression for CPU bottlenecked systems
• Upgrading SQL Server
• Reduce downtime with T-Log backup/restore and the side-by-side upgrade method
• Prior to an upgrade, run DBCC checks and take full backups with verification
• Ensure read only is not enabled prior to the upgrade

This book is a DBA's best friend. It covers the most important and often overlooked areas that you need to maintain to keep your databases secure, in-tune, and well-protected in the event of disaster.

About the Author
Rod Colledge is an independent SQL Server consultant based in Brisbane, Australia. Since 1996, Rod has specialized in the development and administration of SQL Server database systems. His recent work has included the design and implementation of custom transactional replication and log shipping solutions, performance tuning large high-volume databases, and developing procedures for operational maintenance of large database systems. In September 2007, Rod founded sqlCrunch.com, a website specializing in summarizing and categorizing links to SQL Server white papers and best practices.

Book Details

• Paperback: 468 pages
• Publisher: Manning Publications (August, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 193398872X
• ISBN-13: 978-1933988726

• File Size: 14.8 MiB
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