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41.	"The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Jakob Nielsen By Jakob Nielsen Sep 25, 2012 Jakob Nielsen, coauthor of Mobile Usability, reminds us that anything you think is easy or good might be terrible for the target audience.
42.	Custom Search Filtering with jQuery Mobile By Kris Hadlock Sep 24, 2012 Search functionality is often a necessary piece of functionality for a website, especially when your website has a lot of content. In this article, Kris Hadlock, author of Ajax for Web Application Developers, explains how to use the search filter bar to create search functionality in the listview component, and how to create a custom search filter in case the default search functionality doesn’t meet your needs.
43.	Hidden Gems in Adobe Illustrator By Brian Wood Sep 19, 2012 Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS6 Classroom in a Book, shows you how to optimize content for use in projects such as websites, apps, and more.
44.	Don't Do That! Five Habits to Avoid on Your Websites By Tom Negrino Sep 17, 2012 Tom Negrino, coauthor of Dreamweaver CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide, points out five common behaviors that we see used all over the Web. Unfortunately, these are BAD habits, and website designers really need to break them in order to create successful sites.
45.	Corral Your Styles with Dreamweaver's CSS Visualization Tools By Tom Negrino Sep 13, 2012 Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with Dreamweaver provides detailed control of the design and display of your web pages, but hidden rules underlying the styles might prevent you from getting the effect you really want. Fortunately, Dreamweaver offers some powerful tools for working with CSS. Tom Negrino, coauthor of Dreamweaver CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide, explains how to use Dreamweaver's visualization tools to make CSS behave.
46.	WordPress Theming Basics By Jesse Friedman Sep 11, 2012 Jesse Friedman covers WordPress theming basics, including WordPress theme requirements, dynamic header calls, menu nav creation, and content formatting.
47.	Bringing Infographics And Visualization to the Mainstream: Not Just the Tools, but the Ideas By Alberto Cairo Sep 10, 2012 Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, explains that the democratization and commoditization of infographics is a wonderful trend, but it will get even better if it is informed by a solid understanding of certain universal guidelines.
48.	UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 3: Visualizing Interactions with Animation By Rick Moore Sep 10, 2012 Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, takes us on a whirlwind run through creating animations to test interactions in Illustrator. Hold onto your hat!
49.	An Interview with Tim Kadlec on Responsive Design By Tim Kadlec, Mat Marquis Sep 6, 2012 Mat Marquis talks with Tim Kadlec, author of Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web, about what makes a web design 'responsive,' how some responsive sites develop bloat, and why his hair is so luxuriously soft.
50.	Working with Exposed Methods in jQuery Mobile By Kris Hadlock Sep 5, 2012 Kris Hadlock, author of Ajax for Web Application Developers, describes two specific exposed methods from the jQuery Mobile framework that give you the capability to preload and change pages programmatically.
51.	UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 2: Creating Vector Icons By Rick Moore Sep 3, 2012 Wish you had an efficient way to create custom icons in multiple sizes for use on your websites and in your applications? Adobe Illustrator CS6 grants you the power, as demonstrated by Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator.
52.	WordPress 3.4: Making Your Theme Compatible with the Theme Customizer By Jessica Neuman Beck Sep 3, 2012 Use the WordPress 3.4 Theme Customizer for fast, easy, nearly code-free editing of your custom WordPress themes! Jessica Neuman Beck, coauthor of WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition, shows how to update an existing theme with the WordPress 3.4 Theme Customizer.
53.	Implementing Responsive Design with Media By Tim Kadlec Aug 28, 2012 It takes careful consideration and planning to give our users the best of both worlds: a beautiful experience that loads as quickly as possible. In this chapter, learn why performance matters, how to conditionally load images, what responsive image solutions are available, and their limitations, how to swap out background images without downloading multiple images, how to conditionally load web fonts, what’s ahead for responsive images, how to make embedded video scale while maintaining its aspect ratio, and what to do with responsive advertising.
54.	UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Part 1: Flipping Wireframes By Rick Moore Aug 27, 2012 Adobe Illustrator makes it easy to create wireframes and then seamlessly flip them to final art. Rick Moore, author of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, demonstrates how to use Illustrator's symbols, graphic and character styles, and the Find Font tool to turn a sample user interface wireframe into a presentation-ready design.
55.	The Building Blocks of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator By Rick Moore Aug 23, 2012 This chapter takes a look at the basic features that Illustrator provides for the building blocks of UI design.
56.	Adding Text to Your Pages in Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 By Tom Negrino, Dori Smith Aug 22, 2012 In this chapter, you'll learn how to get text onto your page and apply structure using headings and lists. You'll also learn how to use basic HTML text styles to change the look of your text.
57.	Game Mechanics: How to Design an Internal Economy for Your Game By Joris Dormans, Ernest Adams Aug 15, 2012 Internal economy is one kind of mechanic you might find in a game. Designing a game's economy is the core of the game designer’s trade: You craft mechanics to create a game system that is fun and challenging to interact with. Ernest Adams and Joris Dormans, authors of Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design, explain how to do it.
58.	WordPress 3.4: Using the New Theme Customizer By Jessica Neuman Beck Aug 13, 2012 Preview changes to a WordPress theme before launching them to your site! In just a few steps, Jessica Neuman Beck, coauthor of WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition, shows how to use the new Theme Customizer introduced with the WordPress 3.4 core update.
59.	Building Better Websites with Dreamweaver Site Definitions By Tom Negrino Aug 9, 2012 To set up a new website with Dreamweaver, you have to begin by creating a site definition. Though Dreamweaver makes setup easy, it has some pitfalls that can trip up the unwary. Tom Negrino, coauthor of Dreamweaver CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide, guides us step by step through the process of site definition.
60.	How to Create Flexible Header Images in WordPress 3.4 By Jessica Neuman Beck Jul 30, 2012 Break free from header image-size constraints! Jessica Neuman Beck, coauthor of WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition, shows how to use the new flexible header support introduced with the WordPress 3.4 core update.

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