Get a Jump Start on building applications with Bootstrap today! Originally developed by Twitter, Bootstrap is a framework that making the once-arduous process of crafting fully responsive web designs a breeze! Discover why Bootstrap is fast becoming a favorite tool of top web designers. In just one weekend with this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn how to: Integrate Bootstrap into your projects Understand the basic Bootstrap template Work with Bootstrap's grid Customize Bootstrap to work with any project
Get a Jump Start on the popular CSS preprocessor Sass today! Using Sass, you can write your stylesheets in a more concise, dynamic, and readable way, and cut down many of the tedious repetitive tasks that come with writing vanilla CSS. Sass simplifies your stylesheets, adding some useful features missing from CSS. Most importantly, Sass will save you time. This book provides a thorough introduction to Sass for the beginner. In it, you'll learn: What preprocessors are and how they can be useful Installation and getting started Variables, mixins, and functions Loops and conditions Nesting Extend Warnings & errors Project architecture The Sass ecosystem And more!
Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended to be a completely comprehensive Rails guide or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, it will quickly get you up to speed with Rails and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own. The book is built around a real-life example project: a personal portfolio site. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way. This is a clear, approachable and very easy-to-follow book that will get you to to speed with Rails in no time.
Get a Jump Start on building applications with Foundation today! Developed by Zurb, Foundation is a hugely popular CSS framework that's making the once-arduous process of crafting responsive web designs a breeze! Foundation was the first open-source front-end framework to be responsive, the first to be semantic, as well as the first to take a mobile-first approach. Read this book and discover why Foundation is fast becoming a favorite tool of top web designers. In just one weekend with this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn how to: Integrate Foundation into your projects Understand the basic Foundation template Utilize Foundation's impressive array of built-in components Work with Foundation's grid Customize Foundation to work with any project And much more!
Get a Jump Start on the up and coming power tool on the design scene, Sketch! Sketch is fast becoming a favorite tool of modern web designers. With a simple, clean UI, and a raft of powerful features, such as intuitive grids, unlimited artboards, and granular export, Sketch is a great tool for web design; it's easy to see why so many top designers are adding it to their toolbox. This book provides a rapid and practical introduction to using Sketch for web design. If you're currently a Photoshop user, you'll quickly understand how Sketch can supercharge your design process. See how Sketch compares to Photoshop, and when to use one over the other Get to grips with Sketch's UI Use Sketch's built-in layout grid Add plugins to Sketch to boost functionality Export your designs into ready-to-use HTML and CSS And much more!
It used to be so simple. You made a website or application to work on a 15" monitor and, incompatibilities between browsers aside, you were done. Then along came mobile phones with web browsers and they ruined all our easy lives. Worse than that, people loved browsing the web on them! Fortunately, by using responsive web design techniques, you can use one set of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and display appropriate elements in an appropriate way to suit each platform. In Jump Start Responsive Web Design, you'l learn responsive techniques to make your designs look magnificent on any device, future-proof them, and reduce development time and budget. RWD helps you deal with the very real problem of not knowing where and how your application will be used. Completely overhauled for its second edition, this book covers: What does responsive really mean? Semantic page structure Grid systems Responsive Images and media Media queries Responsive content
Node.js is changing the way web apps are built. As Node.js apps are written in JavaScript, you can quickly and simply use your front-end skills to develop staggeringly fast, scalable real-time web applications. Read this book and, in a weekend, you’ll learn how to: Develop a complete working Node.js application - from start-to-finish Deploy your new application to a production server Scale your projects quickly and cheaply PLUS discover how to use Twitter Bootstrap, MongoDB and Back-bone.js to create fancy web apps, extend their storage, and dy-namically update them.
In just a few short years, Ruby on Rails has grown from a cool, hipster upstart to a global powerhouse. Developers around the world are passionate about Rails and this work explains why and gives you the basics you need to start building Rails applications. In this work, you'll learn about Ruby and Model-View Controller architecture, how to build a Rails application, and to deploy it using Heroku.
The real-life Nickel and Dimed—the author of the wildly popular “Poverty Thoughts” essay tells what it’s like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire “DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. TIRADO IS THE REAL THING.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don’t get heard from much. Now they have a voice—and it’s forthright, funny, and just a little bit furious. Here, Linda Tirado tells what it’s like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money. She also answers questions often asked about those who live on or near minimum wage: Why don’t they get better jobs? Why don’t they make better choices? Why do they smoke cigarettes and have ugly lawns? Why don’t they borrow from their parents? Enlightening and entertaining, Hand to Mouth opens up a new and much-needed dialogue between the people who just don’t have it and the people who just don’t get it.
