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Design Concepts with Code: An Approach for Developers is the first book to tackle basic graphic design issues like line, color, symmetry, and balance for an audience of sophisticated programmers. Great developers often create products that work well, look bad, and never reach their potential audience. Developers can design prototypes and products by considering and implementing a reasonable set of design axioms that hold their strength over time.In Design Concepts with Code: An Approach for Developers, design concepts including interface design, design principles, design elements, layout, content and typography, and color are presented with code including XML, XHTML/CSS, SVG, XSLT, XSLFO, and scripting languages. This text offers design concepts, examples, projects, and code (no apps) to quickly enhance client and user interpretation and appreciation of webbased products.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing Interface DesignChapter 2: Introducing Design PrinciplesChapter 3: Project1: Building an OpenSource PortalChapter 4: Implementing Design Elements: Line, Type, and ShapeChapter 5: Implementing Design Elements: Texture, Space, Size, Value, and LayoutChapter 6: Project 2: Building an Online Resource CenterChapter 7: Working with Content and TypographyChapter 8: Using ColorChapter 9: Project 3: Building a WebzineChapter 10: Exploring Site Issues and AccessibilityAuthor InformationStanko Blatnik Stanko Blatnik teaches online courses for the University of Sarajevo on XML technologies, SVG, and process control. He also directs a nonprofit institute in Velenje, Slovenia: the Institute for Symbolic Analysis and Development of Information Technologies. In addition, Stanko writes about topics such as Balkan and European beaurocracy, patents and new technologies, and the hydrogen economy for journals in Slovenia. A physicist by trade, Stanko spent 15 years teaching and administering at the University of Tuzla, in Tuzla, BosniaHerzegovina. Stanko has a doctorate degree in theoretical particle physics from the University of Zagreb in the former Yugoslavia. Above all, however, Stanko is a swimmer. Kelly Carey Kelly Carey teaches Internet services courses at West Valley College, a community college in California. Coderelated topics Kelly teaches include XML technologies, SVG, XHTML/CSS, PHP/mySQL, and graphics topics including how to create and review a digital portfolio and how to build a commercial Web site project. Kelly has a doctorate degree in education from the University of San Francisco, and her dissertation topic involved the language, space, and ontology of the Internet. Her understanding of code, design, and critical hermeneutics has led to speaking at several international conferences.
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