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David McFarland

Auteur de CSS: The Missing Manual

David McFarland est David Sawyer McFarland (1). Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent David Sawyer McFarland, voyez la page de désambigüisation.

13 oeuvres 1,141 utilisateurs 14 critiques

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David Sawyer McFarland served as Webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley
Crédit image: via Alchetron

Œuvres de David McFarland

CSS: The Missing Manual (2006) 499 exemplaires
Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual (2006) 75 exemplaires
JavaScript: The Missing Manual (2008) 53 exemplaires
Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual (2002) 39 exemplaires
Dreamweaver CC: The Missing Manual (2013) 24 exemplaires
Dreamweaver 4: The Missing Manual (2001) 20 exemplaires

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Nom canonique
McFarland, David
Nom légal
McFarland, David Sawyer
Date de naissance
20th Century
Sexe
male

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Practical and helpful to know for those who are going to do website design. Must plan and structure html tags first than apply css rules. Skipped over the tuturiol and will review it at a later time.
 
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MadMattReader | 3 autres critiques | Sep 11, 2022 |
The book starts pretty basic, but gives a very detailed dive into CSS. This book shows you the different hacks needed for different browsers (ugh ugh IE)! David gives some really interesting tips and sites which display the power of CSS.

I believe I'll use this book as a CSS reference for months to come.
 
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nmarun | 3 autres critiques | Nov 2, 2014 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
The Missing Manual series was started by technology author and columnist David Pogue, who set the tone. They really are what their copyrighted tagline says: the book that should have been in the box. But unlike most software manuals, online or physical, they’re written with a conscious informality that doesn’t detract from their overall precision and comprehensiveness.

The Dreamweaver Missing Manual is huge—at 1,006 pages, it’s 140 pages longer than the biggest I have on the shelf, the Missing Manual for Photoshop CS6. It’s a handful to digest, even though it’s extremely well organized. (No one, it’s safe to say, is going to read this cover to cover.) There are five major sections:

• Building a Web Page: includes a guided tour and an introduction to the major concepts of handling text, HTML, style sheets, links, images, tables, and using search
• Building a Better Web Page: advanced CSS, page layout, and designing sites for mobile devices
• Bringing Your Pages to Live: building in interactivity, forms, and multimedia
• Managing a Website: site management
• Dreamweaver CC Power: using libraries, using templates, customization, and server-side programming

There are appendixes and a comprehensive index.

Now, there is only one way to really use and learn from a book like this, and that’s to have it open next to you as you have the program open in front of you. That’s simple enough with a physical copy, but with a digital copy like the one I have, it’s problematic. The print layout (visible in the full-size PDF I have on my Mac) is carefully considered, but the ePub version I have on my Nook HD is not very usable: there is too little text on any page, too often the figure it refers to is on another page, and the graphics are small and difficult to examine closely. These problems are only partly mitigated by viewing the file in landscape orientation. If you have the digital copy, I suggest either a multiple-monitor setup with the adjunct monitor set to display the PDF at 100% or larger, or a large tablet such as an iPad, on a stand and also displaying the PDF at 100% or larger.

I don’t have an extra monitor at home, nor is my 22” monitor really large enough to display both the PDF and Dreamweaver at a convenient resolution. And my only tablet is the Nook HD reader. So I’m not getting the level of use out of this Missing Manual that I would like. Nevertheless, I think it’s the book to have if you want to learn Dreamweaver on your own, from scratch, and I highly recommend it.
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john.cooper | 1 autre critique | Feb 17, 2014 |
Coming from server-side and database programming, Javascript always seemed very confusing and non-intuitive to me. I cannot count the number of times I ended up just copying and pasting after googling. But this approach is pretty inefficient in the long run, since if you have no idea what the code is doing it is very difficult (if not impossible) to modify it to suit your specific needs. Enter "Javascript & jQuery: The Missing Manual". In less than two days I have been able to learn to create effects that would have taken weeks or months to learn using any of the other books I have tried. The key - as the author points out several times - is the awesome simplicity and straightforwardness of the jQuery library. In fact, writing jQuery barely even feels like writing Javascript at all! If you are familiar with CSS the book will be that much easier, since jQuery actually utilizes the same selectors as CSS to operate on elements. If not, a book like Learn CSS with w3Schools will quickly get you up to speed. Other than knowing some basic CSS you will need little else, since the author systematically avoids jargon (supplementing any he cannot avoid with down-to-earth explanations) as well as gives brief refreshers on HTML and Javascript prior to diving into jQuery. Basically all you need is a text editor and a web browser and you're good to go. I highly recommend you try this book! About 25% into it you'll be glad you did.… (plus d'informations)
 
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cliffhays | Dec 27, 2013 |

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