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HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies
A thorough and helpful reference for aspiring website builders
Looking to start an exciting new career in front-end web building and design? Or maybe you just want to develop a new skill and create websites for fun. Whatever your reasons, it’s never been easier to start learning how to build websites from scratch than with help from HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies. This book has the essentials you need to wrap your head around the key ingredients of website design and creation.
You’ll learn to build attractive, useful, and easy-to-navigate websites by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into fun and practical creations. Using the 6 books compiled within this comprehensive collection, you’ll discover how to make static and dynamic websites, complete with intuitive layouts and cool animations. The book also includes:
- Incorporate the latest approaches to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including those involving new markup, page styles, interactivity, and more
- Step-by-step instructions for new site creators explaining the very basics of page layouts and animations
- Easy-to-follow advice for adjusting page color and background, adding widgets to a site, and getting rid of all the bugs that affect site performance
- Bonus 6th book available at https://www.wiley.com/en-us/HTML%2C+CSS%2C+%26amp%3B+JavaScript+All+in+One+For+Dummies-p-9781394164721.
Web development is a fun, interesting, and challenging skill that can lead to a lucrative career (if you’re so inclined). And with the right help, almost anyone can learn to create engaging websites from scratch. So, grab a copy of HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies and you’ll be designing and building before you know it!
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Game Artist: The Ultimate Career Guide
HOW DO YOU BECOME A SUCCESSFUL GAME ARTIST?
The ultimate career guide walks you through the pitfalls and power-ups of building a career in this multi-billion dollar but secretive industry. Brimming with practical advice, for both aspiring artists and the experienced, GAME ARTIST leads you through the tricky process of career building, boosting you to the next level.
From experienced Art Director and Artist Paul Jones, GAME ARTIST provides you with the golden key to unlocking your full career potential. All you have to do is step through the door. This is a walkthrough and career guide rolled into one!
This book is for you, if:
- You want to learn the secrets of the games industry
- You want to get into a video game art department
- You wonder what makes a successful game artist
- You feel stuck in your role and want to level up
- You want to make the leap into team building and management
You don’t know how to get promoted? That’s ok. It’s because you don’t know the rules of the game. Until now.
Having worked for the last 25 years in the games industry, learning from the ground up, Paul has experienced a wide range of high-profile companies, Epic Games (Unreal Tournament 3), Rocksteady (Batman Arkham City), TTFusion (LEGO City Undercover) and the record-smashing Star Citizen with Cloud Imperium Games.
Game Artist is split into well-defined sections, making it easy for you to pick and chose.
Level One – Job Applicant
Covering the basics – including finding your way into the industry, getting a killer portfolio ready, understanding what an Art Director wants to see, and finally, interview and salary negotiation skills explained.Level Two – Junior Artist
Your first few months of working in a games company, paperwork and contracts, company benefits, perks and bonuses. Dive into game development pipelines and company hierarchies. What’s expected of you as a new recruit and how to succeed and avoid early burn-out, giving you a heads-up on self-care, keeping you productive, having fun and learning to climb the ranks.Level Three – Mid, Senior and Principal Artist
Decide where you’re heading next while mentoring others and working widely with the development team. Clear career progression outlining which skills you need for the all-important Personal Development Review (PDR). How and where to upgrade yourself – communication and teamwork, creativity, productivity, self-confidence, mentoring. Chose to specialise (or not) and when it’s time for a change, how best to make an exit strategy.Level Four – Lead Artist
Making the transition to managerial responsibilities. Development of management techniques, understanding both yourself and your team, how to build and drive a successful team, dealing with tricky situations, meetings, presentations, staff reviews and negotiation. Plus, a section dedicated to self-care – how to set time aside for thinking, planning, and artwork.Level Five – Art Director
The high-stakes role of Art Director explained. Working with executives and publishers, team deadlines, leading from the front, managing your team and the creative process. Revealing internal and external team pipelines, concept and game team artists, outsource studios and how to get the best from them all.Packed with hard-won information, from studios around the world, in-depth interviews with seasoned industry professionals, and advice on being the ideal professional, GAME ARTIST is the helping hand you always wanted.
No more messing, no more guessing – it’s time to level up!
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So You Want to Vlog?: How to start from scratch, find your voice & share your stories
So, you’re an aspiring vlogger? Your new favorite content creator, Andrea Valeria of “It’s a Travel O.D.,” has broken down the vlogging process for you, without taking herself too seriously or getting overly technical. From naming your vlog, refining your style, and advancing your skills—to the satisfaction of publishing your very first video—you now have a vlogging mentor (and maybe your first viewer!). In this vlogging guide, you’ll learn: -What exactly is a vlog? -Finding your space in the vlogging world -What you need to get started vlogging -How to tell an engaging story through video -Shooting and editing techniques for newbies Get started on your first vlog. Then return to this book for mentorship when you come up with questions or need a little encouragement.Read more
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I’m a pretty big deal… on Instagram: Cute Social Media Fan Notebook, Perfect Gift Idea For IG Influencer
120 page lined notebook
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Clockwork Game Design
Only by finding and focusing on a core mechanism can you further your pursuit of elegance in strategy game design.
Clockwork Game Design is the most functional and directly applicable theory for game design. It details the clockwork game design pattern, which focuses on building around fundamental functionality. You can then use this understanding to prescribe a system for building and refining your rulesets. A game can achieve clarity of purpose by starting with a strong core, then removing elements that conflict with that core while adding elements that support it.
Filled with examples and exercises detailing how to put the clockwork game design pattern into use, this book is a must-have manual for designing games.
- A hands-on, practical book that outlines a very specific approach to designing games
- Develop the mechanics that make your game great, and limit or remove factors that disrupt the core concept
- Practice designing games through the featured exercises and illustrations
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Lighting for Animation: The Art of Visual Storytelling
Lighting for Animation is designed with one goal in mind – to make you a better artist. Over the course of the book, Jasmine Katatikarn and Michael Tanzillo (Senior Lighting TDs, Blue Sky Studios) will train your eye to analyze your work more critically, and teach you approaches and techniques to improve your craft. Focusing on the main philosophies and core concepts utilized by industry professionals, this book builds the foundation for a successful career as a lighting artist in visual effects and computer animation. Inside you’ll find in-depth instruction on:
• Creating mood and storytelling through lighting
• Using light to create visual shaping
• Directing the viewer’s eye with light and color
• Gathering and utilizing reference images
• Successfully lighting and rendering workflows
• Render layers and how they can be used most effectively
• Specific lighting scenarios, including character lighting, environment lighting, and lighting an animated sequence
• Material properties and their work with lighting
• Compositing techniques essential for a lighter
• A guide on how to start your career and achieve success as a lighting artist
This book is not designed to teach software packages—there are websites, instructional manuals, online demos, and traditional courses available to teach you how to operate specific computer programs. That type of training will teach you how to create an image; this book will teach you the technical skills you need to make that image beautiful.
Key Features
- Stunning examples from a variety of films serve to inspire and inform your creative choices.
- Unique approach focuses on using lighting as a storytelling tool, rather than just telling you which buttons to press.
- Comprehensive companion website contains lighting exercises, assets, challenges, and further resources to help you expand your skillset.
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The Muvipix.com Guide to Adobe Premiere Elements 2024: The tools, and how to use them, to make movies on your personal computer
From the basics of video editing with Premiere Elements, like capturing your media and building a timeline, to advanced functions, like creating customized effects and building projects for social media, videomaker support site Muvipix co-founder Steve Grisetti will show you:* How to use the Motion Tracking tool, Candid Moments and the Smart Trim tools to edit and enhance your videos.
* How to navigate the streamlined Quick View editing space.
* How to create and upload videos directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
* How to use the new Color Match tool.
* How to create automatic Highlight Reels.
* The magic of keyframing, Premiere Elements’ most versatile and powerful tool for creating motion paths and special effects.
* How to use the options in the program’s Export & Share workspace to create movies and share your videos online.Read more
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Learn to Produce Videos with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less
This title was superseded by the 2018 Edition of the same name, which is now available on Amazon and other online booksellers. If you purchased this version, send proof of purchase to janozer@gmail.com and I’ll send you a free PDF copy of the update ($29.95 value). Note that the changes in the book are concentrated, with new sections on Bento4 in Chapters 10 and 12, and several new sections on live transcoding and AV1 encoding in Chapter 14. Otherwise, most of the book is the same, so having a physical copy of the old edition and a PDF of the new should not be a hassle. Note that if you wait and buy a physical copy of the new edition, you won’t get a PDF copy.
This focused 120-page book teaches readers how to use FFmpeg to create full adaptive bitrate ladders and package them into HLS or DASH formats. The book also includes a primer on terms and technologies related to streaming and recommended settings for all parameters detailed in the book.
Initial chapters focus on installing FFmpeg on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, and basics of command-line programming. Then the technology primer, and individual chapters on bitrate control, resolution, frame rate, I-, B-, P- and reference-frame settings. These are followed by chapters on H.264 and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), which includes instruction on Apple tools Media File Segmenter, Variant Playlist Creator, and Media Stream Validator. Also covered is encoding for DASH with MP4Box. Next up are chapters on encoding HEVC with x265, and producing VP9, with the final chapter covering miscellaneous operations like concatenating multiple files, or computing PSNR with FFmpeg.
A downloadable zipped file includes all (Windows) batch files used in the book, which you can easily adapt for your own use, and a detailed Table of Contents and Index will help you find what you need. All these contents ensure that you’ll be able to Learn to Produce Videos with FFmpeg in 30 Minutes or Less.
(Note: the email in the book for the downloadable files is incorrect. Please email the request to jozer@mindspring.com. Sorry for any inconvenience).
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Games As A Service: How Free to Play Design Can Make Better Games
The games industry is serious business and the role of a games designer has dramatically changed over just the last few years. Developers now have to rethink everything they know about the creative, technical and business challenges to adapt to the transition to games as a service.
Games as a Service: How Free to Play Design Can Make Better Games has been written to help designers overcome many of the fears and misconceptions surrounding freemium and social games. It provides a framework to deliver better games rather than the ‘evil’ or ‘manipulative’ experiences some designers fear with the move away from wasteful Products to sustainable, trustworthy Services.
Oscar Clark is a consultant and Evangelist for Everyplay from Applifier. He has been a pioneer in online, mobile and console social games services since 1998 including Wireplay (British Telecom), Hutchison Whampoa (3UK) and PlayStation®Home. He is a regular columnist on PocketGamer.Biz and is an outspoken speaker and moderator at countless games conferences on Games Design, Discovery, and Monetisation. He is also a notorious hat wearer.
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Elemental Magic , Volume 2: The Technique of Special Effects Animation
Design beautiful, professional-level animated effects with these detailed step-by-step tutorials from former Disney animator and animated effects expert Joseph Gilland. Filled with beautiful, full-color artwork, Elemental Magic, Volume II, breaks down the animated effect process from beginning to end-including booming explosions, gusting winds, magical incantations, and raging fires. He also breaks down the process of effects “clean-up,” as well as timing and frame rates. The companion website includes real-time footage of the author lecturing as he animates the drawings from the book. In these videos, he elucidates the entire process from blank page to final animation. See it all come to life like never before. Throughout the book, Joseph refers to and includes examples from his own professional work from feature films such as Lilo & Stitch and Tarzan.
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Draw Anime Faces and Feelings: 800 facial expressions from joy to terror, anger, surprise, sadness and more
Drawing Anime Faces and Feelings is a great book for all abilities!
Big facial expressions are essential to anime and manga. However, faces can be challenging.
With this book, improve your anime-drawing skills with instruction for facial features and expressions for a wide variety of ages, character types, hair styles and activities. With 800 different facial expressions, you’ll be able to draw your character in any emotional situation or with any reaction.
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‘Halo: The Great Journey – The Art of Building Worlds’
“‘The Art of Halo’; is the ultimate gallery of the Halo universe, with over 400 images including sketches and concept art by acclaimed artists such as Ashley Wood, detailed interiors and sweeping landscapes of Alex Chu, and Frank Capezzuto’s breathtaking spacescapes, plus commentary from the artists themselves and a Foreword from ‘the face of Halo,’ Frank O’Connor.”Read more
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Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today’s hit video games. You’ll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences—a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.
In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan Sylvester also looks at the day-to-day process necessary to keep your project on track, including how to work with a team, and how to avoid creative dead ends. Packed with examples, this book will change your perception of game design.
- Create game mechanics to trigger a range of emotions and provide a variety of play
- Explore several options for combining narrative with interactivity
- Build interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each other’s heads
- Motivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the game
- Establish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanics
- Plan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up front
- Learn how your game’s market positioning will affect your design
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The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960–Today
Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design―with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea―has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist packaging to colorful adverts, smart environmental graphics to sleek interfaces: graphic design is as much about transmitting information as it is about reflecting society’s cultural aspirations and values.
This second volume rounds off our in-depth exploration of graphic design, spanning from the 1960s until today. About 3,500 seminal designs from across the globe guide us in this visual map through contemporary history, from the establishment of the International Style to the rise of the groundbreaking digital age. Around 80 key pieces go under the microscope in detailed analyses besides 118 biographies of the era’s most important designers, including Massimo Vignelli (New York subway wayfinding system), Otl Aicher (Lufthansa identity), Paula Scher (Citibank brand identity), Neville Brody (The Face magazine), Kashiwa Sato (Uniqlo brand identity), and Stefan Sagmeister (handwriting posters).
With his sweeping knowledge of the field, author Jens Müller curates the standout designs for each year alongside a running sequence of design milestones. Organized chronologically, each decade is prefaced by a succinct overview as well as a stunning visual timeline, offering a vivid display of the variety of graphic production in each decade as well as the global landscape which it at once described and defined.
This collection of important graphic works represents a long-overdue reflection on the development of a creative field constantly changing and challenging itself. These key pieces act as coordinates through contemporary history, helping us trace the sheer influence of graphic design on our daily lives.
Combined with Volume One―which spans from the field’s very beginnings until 1959―the tomes offer the most comprehensive exploration of graphic design to date.
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The Art Of Uncharted 2 Among Thieves (Art of the Game)
Ballistic Publishing has partnered with Sony Computer Entertainment America and Naughty Dog, Inc., to produce The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The biggest Ballistic Publishing art book to date weighs in at 272 pages and features some of the hundreds of drawings, paintings, and sculpts that began the process of making Nathan Drake’s world real, and helped make Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year. From concept art to character studies, environment art, character modeling, game art, cinematics, motion-capture, animation, and effects, The Art of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the ultimate companion to the award-winning PlayStation 3 game.
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Animate to Harmony: The Independent Animator’s Guide to Toon Boom
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats.
Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom’s Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony programs, teaching you how to create high-quality 2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures that are common across all three programs while “Advanced Techniques” boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony features, appealing to all levels of experience with any of the three main Toon Boom products.
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SEO 2021: Actionable, Hands-on SEO, Including a Full Site Audit (Webmaster Series)
Do you want to learn a safe & effective SEO strategy that works in 2021? Real search engine optimization where you build 100% white-hat backlinks to catapult your site to the top of the SERPs? An SEO plan without risk of a Google slap or penalty?In 2021, how many SEO books & courses can offer that type of search engine optimization? This book can!
Google is on the SEO warpath. Anyone caught breaking the rules or trying to manipulate rankings through aggressive SEO techniques, will find their website dropping out of the top 10, top 100, or out of the search results altogether. Commonly taught SEO techniques can now kill your rankings!
Google released a whole menagerie of animals (Panda, Penguin, Pigeon, etc), but also employs humans to rate your content. You cannot fly under the radar any more. Gone are the days of fast rankings with SEO loopholes. Today, SEO can be dangerous if you follow the wrong advice. Most free online SEO advice is very wrong because it’s either out of date, or written by someone that doesn’t do it for a living. I’ve been studying, testing, and teaching SEO for over a decade.
SEO 2021 is a book that will teach you the safe, white-hat search engine optimization strategies I personally use to get my web pages (and those of my clients) to rank high in Google. This is battle-tested, white hat SEO that I’ve learned, developed and tested over the last decade. On-site optimization techniques that I was teaching my newsletter readers back in 2008, are only now becoming mainstream in SEO. I play by Google’s rules, meaning I never have to wake up after a major update and wonder if my sites have been hit.
With so many algorithm changes taking place at Google, you might be wondering how it is possible to stay up to date with all the changes. The good news is that it is easy once you acquire the right mindset. Understand what Google is trying to do, and give it to them. You won’t find me discussing loopholes or strategies to beat the system. What you will find is solid strategies & advice to create great content, build authority links, and increase your domain authority.
This book covers everything you need to know, including:
- What is SEO and what are the main rnaking factors?
- Major Google changes and how they have affected the way we do SEO.
- Creating the quality content your visitors want, and search engines love.
- Finding essential theme words and phrases for any piece of content you write.
- All on-page factors discussed.
- Scema & Structured data.
- Site organization & structure.
- What is authority, and how you can you incrase yours?
- How to get authority, white-hat, high quality backlinks.
- Giving your visitors what they want, while keeping search engines happy.
- A complete SEO audit to check for common problems.
SEO 2021 was written by search engine veteran Andy Williams of ezSEONews.com. He has been teaching this stuff since 2003, in his free weekly newsletter. If you want to understand what the search engines want, and learn modern search engine optimization that gets higher rankings through great content and smart backlinking, explode your traffic, AND have Google’s blessing, then you should read this book.
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Sidemen: The Book: The book you’ve been waiting for
Billions of you have watched their videos and millions of you have followed them on social media.
So here we go; it’s time to back up because YouTube superstars, The Sidemen, are finally here in book form and they’re dishing the dirt on each other as well as the YouTube universe.
There’s nowhere to hide as the guys go in hard on their living habits, their football ability, and their dodgy clobber, while also talking Fifa, Vegas and superheroes. They’ll also give you their grand house tour, letting you in on a few secrets, before showing you their hall of fame, as well as revealing some of their greatest shames.
Along the way you’ll learn how seven of the world’s biggest YouTube stars started off with nothing more than a computer console, a PC and a bad haircut before joining forces to crush the internet. And they’ll tell you just how they did it (because they’re nice like that) with their ultimate guide to YouTube while also sharing their memories of recording their favourite videos as well as a typical day in the life of The Sidemen.
You’ll feel like you’re with them every step of the way, smelling the ‘sweet’ aroma of the boys’ favourite dishes in the kitchen, stamping your passport as you follow them on their trips around the world and kicking every ball as the boys gear up for the biggest football match of their lives.
It’s going to get personal. It’s going to get intense, and JJ is going to have lots of tantrums, so take a moment to prepare yourself, because this is The Sidemen book you’ve been waiting for!
Enter the Sidemen LUCKY DIP
Submit your pre-order confirmation for a chance to win a selection of amazing prizes, including a trip to Gravity Force with the Sidemen! Go to sidemenbook.co.uk for all the details.
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My Revision Notes: OCR Cambridge Nationals in Creative iMedia L 1 / 2: Pre-production skills and Creating digital graphics
Written by experienced author Kevin Wells, this is the only revision guide aimed specifically at helping students prepare for the mandatory examined unit Pre-Production Skills; unlock your students full potential with this step-by-step revision guide that provides the key content you need to know and guidance on how to apply it to achieve your best grade.
– Encourages active revision by combining topic coverage with a variety of ‘Test Yourself’ activities and formal exam-style questions
– Improves your exam technique through examiner tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid
– Provides opportunities to improve your understanding and practise key IT skills for the mandatory examination
– Makes revision manageable by condensing topics into easy-to-revise chunks with handy end-of topic summaries
– Enables you to get exam ready with quick quizzes and answers to activities available online
– Helps you plan and pace your revision using the revision planner
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How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You: Volume 2 (The Oatmeal)
Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, TheOatmeal.com is an entertainment site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. Matthew Inman, creator of TheOatmeal.com, is a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. He writes, draws, and codes everything on the site, and his viral marketing skills make the site a huge success. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill Youis a very funny, creative selection of comics, facts, and instructional guides, which all stem from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com.The book will be designed to create suspense/anticipation with page turns analogous to the experience of scrolling down through the panels on the website. For example, “Cat vs. Internet” will use page turns to draw out the reader’s anticipation of what the crafty kitty might do next to get attention from his Internet-fixated owner. Other favourite cat comics include “How to Pet a Kitty,” “The Bobcats,” and “17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat.” A pull-out poster will be included at the back of the book.
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How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You: Volume 2 (The Oatmeal)
Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, TheOatmeal.com is an entertainment site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. Matthew Inman, creator of TheOatmeal.com, is a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. He writes, draws, and codes everything on the site, and his viral marketing skills make the site a huge success. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill Youis a very funny, creative selection of comics, facts, and instructional guides, which all stem from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com.The book will be designed to create suspense/anticipation with page turns analogous to the experience of scrolling down through the panels on the website. For example, “Cat vs. Internet” will use page turns to draw out the reader’s anticipation of what the crafty kitty might do next to get attention from his Internet-fixated owner. Other favourite cat comics include “How to Pet a Kitty,” “The Bobcats,” and “17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat.” A pull-out poster will be included at the back of the book.
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answer to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
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UX For Dummies
Get up to speed quickly on the latest in user experience strategy and designUX For Dummies is a hands-on guide to developing and implementing user experience strategy. Written by globally-recognized UX consultants, this essential resource provides expert insight and guidance on using the tools and techniques that create a great user experience, along with practical advice on implementing a UX strategy that aligns with your organisation’s business goals and philosophy. You’ll learn how to integrate web design, user research, business planning and data analysis to focus your company’s web presence on the needs of your customers, gaining the skills you need to be effective in the field of user experience design.
Whether it’s the interface, graphics, industrial design, physical interaction or a user manual, being anything less than on point can negatively affect customer satisfaction and retention. User experience design fully encompasses traditional human-computer interaction design, and extends it to address all aspects of a product or service as perceived by users. UX For Dummies provides comprehensive guidance to professionals looking to understand and apply effective UX strategies.
- Defines UX and offers assistance with determining users and modelling the user experience
- Provides details on creating a content strategy and building information architectures
- Explores visual design and designing for specific channels
- Delves into UX testing and methods for keeping your site relevant
The UX field is growing rapidly as companies realise that meeting your business goals requires a web presence aligned with customer needs. This alignment demands smart strategy and even smarter design. Consultants, designers and practitioners must all be on board if the result is to be cohesive and effective. UX For Dummies provides the information and expert advice you need to get up to speed quickly.
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SEO And Search Marketing In A Week: Search Engine Optimization And Search Engine Marketing Made Easy In Seven Simple Steps (Teach Yourself: In a Week)
SEO and Search Marketing In A Week is a simple and straightforward guide to mastering the basics, giving you everything you really need to know in just seven short chapters. From stripping away the mystique from SEO and SEM, to uncovering the meaning of jargon and acronyms such as pay-per-click advertising (PPC), backlinking, social signals and algorithms, you’ll discover how to structure your website to deliver what the search engines are looking for and to promote it to the world.
This book distils the most practical search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) insights into easy-to-digest bite-sized chunks, giving you a basic knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises. Whether you choose to read it in a week or in a single sitting, SEO And Search Marketing In A Week is your fastest route to success:
– Sunday: An introduction to search engines and SEO
– Monday: Keyword research
– Tuesday: On-page optimization
– Wednesday: Off-page optimization
– Thursday: Getting other traffic sources to your website
– Friday: Pay-per-click traffic: making it work for you
– Saturday: Monitoring and managing your progressABOUT THE SERIES
In A Week books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From negotiating and content marketing to finance and social media, the In A Week series covers the business topics that really matter and that will help you make a difference today. Written in straightforward English, each book is structured as a seven-day course so that with just a little work each day, you will quickly master the subject. In a fast-changing world, this series enables readers not just to get up to speed, but to get ahead.Read more
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WordPress: The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box
Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites–once you know how to tap into its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 5.0’s themes, widgets, and plug-ins to build just about any kind of site. The important stuff you need to know: Setting up WordPress. Configure WordPress on your web host or get it running on your home computer. Create your site. Get hands-on instructions for building all types of websites, from blogs to business sites with ecommerce features. Mix in multimedia. Add picture galleries, slideshows, video clips, music players, and podcasts. Add features. Select from thousands of plug-ins to enhance your site’s capabilities, from contact forms to a basic shopping cart. Build a truly unique site. Customize a WordPress theme to create a site that looks exactly the way you want. Attract an audience. Use SEO, site statistics, and social sharing to reach more people. Stay safe. Use backup and staging tools to protect your content and avoid catastrophe.Read more
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Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website: The 100% Not Boring Guide to Setting Up Your Website with WordPress (Funny You Should Ask: Breaking Down Internet Marketing,…
Learn How to Make a Website!
Who needs a website these days?
The answer is: everyone. If you’re reading this, you probably need a website!
Imagine having a great idea for a website and then being able to have that idea up and running in just a few hours. With the tools and skills you’ll learn in this book, you’ll be able to do just that!
In this guide, Amazon best-selling writer Lori Culwell (author of the “Funny You Should Ask” guides, as well as a ton of other books) breaks down the website setup process step by step, stopping along the way to make you laugh.
In Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website, you’ll discover:
- Why you need to do some keyword research before you even start your project
- How to get the best price on a domain–and which type to buy
- What level of hosting will save you the most money
- 7 basic Wordpress plugins every website needs
- “Gotcha” moments in the website setup process–one of which you must avoid at all costs
- Free themes vs. paid themes vs. theme-building software
- Maintenance, crashes, and how not to panic
- And much, much more!
Plus, you’ll receive a BONUS companion guide that boils down the entire process and gives you space to take notes.
Whether you’re a student, an author, an aspiring SEO consultant, affiliate marketer, or own a small business, this book lays out the basic website setup process that everyone needs.
Get your copy of How to Make a Website today! Just scroll up to the top of the page and click the “BUY NOW” button!
Part of the “Funny You Should Ask” series, in which Lori Culwell makes everything easy to understand in her trademark “snarky yet informative” style!
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Production Pipeline Fundamentals for Film and Games
Every production is built on the backbone of the pipeline. While a functional and flexible pipeline can’t assure a successful project, a weak pipeline can guarantee its demise. A solid pipeline produces a superior product in less time and with happier artists who can remain creative throughout the grueling production schedule.
Walk through the foundational layers of the production pipeline, including IT infrastructure, software development practices and deployment policies, asset management, shot management, and rendering management. Production Pipeline Fundamentals for Film and Games will teach you how to direct limited resources to the right technological initiatives, getting the most for every dollar spent.
- Learn how to prepare for and manage all aspects of the pipeline with this entirely unique, one-of-a-kind guide.
- Expand your knowledge with real-world pipeline secrets handed to you by a stellar group of professionals from across the globe.
- Visit the companion website for even further resources on the pipeline.
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Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Art of the Game
An exclusive look at the art and creation of the PS4 exclusive videogame Marvel’s Spider-Man.
The worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in the action-packed Marvel’s Spider-Man videogame exclusively on the PS4. Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Art of the Game is packed with hundreds of exclusive full-colour images of Spider-Man, his suit and equipment, the allies he relies on like MJ Watson and Aunt May, and the deadly villains he battles. This wealth of material is accompanied by exclusive insight into the creative process from the talented developers, artists, and designers responsible for bringing Spider-Man’s world to vivid life.
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Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress: An Official Mojang Book
Have you ever wanted to create your own legendary medieval kingdom to rule over? Well, now you can, with Minecraft Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress.Learn how to design, build, and customize every part of your castle and the surrounding area, from sturdy walls and deadly traps to dank, dark dungeons and sprawling villages. Each build has an exploded view to show you exactly which blocks to use, plus extra ideas to make every part of your kingdom unique.
Packed with interesting facts about medieval life, full-color illustrations, and a foldout depicting the epic scale of the kingdom, this official Mojang book has dozens of building ideas to ignite the imaginations of Minecrafters of all ages.
Note: This book has been designed to mimic job-site engineering plans. The marks and scuffs on the pages are an intentional design element.
Collect all of the official Minecraft books:
Minecraft: The Island
Minecraft: The Crash
Minecraft: The Lost Journals
Minecraft: The Survivors’ Book of Secrets
Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress
Minecraft: Guide to Exploration
Minecraft: Guide to Creative
Minecraft: Guide to the Nether & the End
Minecraft: Guide to Redstone
Minecraft: Mobestiary
Minecraft: Guide to Enchantments & Potions
Minecraft: Guide to PVP Minigames
Minecraft: Guide to Farming
Minecraft: Let’s Build! Theme Park Adventure
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Minecraft Master Builds: The official illustrated book for experienced Minecrafters showcasing a world of stunning creations and exclusive interviews with the builders behind them!
The definitive book on Minecraft’s greatest creations.
Minecraft is the global phenomenon inspiring people across the world to unleash their imaginations. Minecraft Master Builds showcases the creations that have taken the game to new levels, and introduces the builders behind them.
Explore awe-inspiring vistas as the pages take you from stunning underwater sculptures to monumental space panoramas, or travel through time to visit grand medieval towns and futuristic cityscapes.
Minecraft Master Builds is packed with beautifully rendered illustrations of each colossal creation, highlighting the painstaking details that make these builds masterful. Featuring exclusive interviews from the builders that provide insight into their design and creation, plus a foreword written by Mojang game tech lead and content creator slicedlime, this must-have book is perfect for Minecraft fans, aspiring builders, and anyone looking for inspiration!
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The History of Graphic Design. 40th Ed.
Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design―with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea―has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist packaging to colorful adverts, smart environmental graphics to sleek interfaces: graphic design is as much about transmitting information as it is about reflecting society’s cultural aspirations and values.
With his sweeping knowledge of the field, author Jens Müller curates the standout designs for each year, a running sequence of design milestones. This collection of important graphic works represents a long-overdue reflection on the development of a creative field constantly changing and challenging itself. These key pieces act as coordinates through contemporary history, helping us trace the sheer influence of graphic design on our daily lives.
About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program―now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
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Beginner’s Step-by-Step Coding Course: Learn Computer Programming the Easy Way
The simplest, most visual introduction to coding for adults.
Using a graphic method to break complex subjects into user-friendly chunks, computer coding has never been easier thanks to this programming book.
Here’s what you’ll find inside the pages of this coding for beginners book:
– To reinforce learning, practical coding projects are followed by suggestions and challenges for the reader to adapt and personalise a project
– Step-by-step explanations visually break down each section of code and explain how coding works
– Written and checked by a team of expert coders
– Includes widely used languages, from introduction to career-usefulFrom learning Python coding and Javascript to HTML and Scratch, Beginner’s Step-by-Step Coding Course brings the most essential coding skills within easy reach! Each chapter contains tutorials on practical programming projects designed to teach you the main applications of each coding language, such as building websites, creating games, and designing apps.
You’ll learn to think like a programmer by breaking a problem down into parts, before turning those parts into lines of code. Short, easy-to-follow steps then show you, piece by piece, how to build a complete programme. This essential coding guide contains everything you need to get on the road to code! It’s perfect for anyone who wants to learn to code for a hobby or who wants to take their first steps towards a career in coding.
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YouTube Channels For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Create a YouTube channel that draws subscribers with top-notch content
YouTube has the eyes and ears of two billion monthly users. YouTube Channels for Dummies, 2nd Edition offers proven steps to attracting a chunk of those billions to your personal or business channel.
This updated guide offers insight from a quartet of YouTube channel content creators, managers, marketers, and analysts as they share the secrets of creating great content, building an audience, and interacting with your viewers. The book includes information on:
· Setting up a channel
· Creating videos that attract viewers
· Putting together a video studio
· Editing your final product
· Reaching your target audience
· Interacting with your fans
· Building a profitable business
· Tips on copyright law
Written for both the budding YouTube creator and the business professional seeking to boost their company’s profile on the popular social networking site, YouTube Channels for Dummies allows its readers to access the over two billion active YouTube users who log on each day.
Learn how to create a channel, build a YouTube following, and get insight on content creation, planning, and marketing from established YouTube creators.
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£17.70£20.90YouTube Channels For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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SEO 2019: Actionable, Hands-on SEO, Including a Full Site Audit (Webmaster Series)
Do you want to learn a safe & effective SEO strategy that works in 2019? Real search engine optimization where you build 100% white-hat backlinks to catapult your site to the top of the SERPs? An SEO plan without risk of a Google slap or penalty?In 2019, how many SEO books & courses can offer that type of search engine optimization? This book can!
Google is on the SEO warpath. Anyone caught breaking the rules or trying to manipulate rankings through aggressive SEO techniques, will find their website dropping out of the top 10, top 100, or out of the search results altogether. Commonly taught SEO techniques can now kill your rankings!
Google released a whole menagerie of animals (Panda, Penguin, Pigeon, etc), but also employs humans to rate your content. You cannot fly under the radar any more. Gone are the days of fast rankings with SEO loopholes. Today, SEO can be dangerous if you follow the wrong advice. Most free online SEO advice is very wrong because it’s either out of date, or written by someone that doesn’t do it for a living. I’ve been studying, testing, and teaching SEO for over a decade.
SEO 2019 is a book that will teach you the safe, white-hat search engine optimization strategies I personally use to get my web pages (and those of my clients) to rank high in Google. This is battle-tested, white hat SEO that I’ve learned, developed and tested over the last decade. On-site optimization techniques that I was teaching my newsletter readers back in 2008, are only now becoming mainstream in SEO. I play by Google’s rules, meaning I never have to wake up after a major update and wonder if my sites have been hit.
With so many algorithm changes taking place at Google, you might be wondering how it is possible to stay up to date with all the changes. The good news is that it is easy once you acquire the right mindset. Understand what Google is trying to do, and give it to them. You won’t find me discussing loopholes or strategies to beat the system. What you will find is solid strategies & advice to create great content, build authority links, and increase your domain authority.
This book covers everything you need to know, including:
- What is SEO and what are the main rnaking factors?
- Major Google changes and how they have affected the way we do SEO.
- Creating the quality content your visitors want, and search engines love.
- Finding essential theme words and phrases for any piece of content you write.
- All on-page factors discussed.
- Scema & Structured data.
- Site organization & structure.
- What is authority, and how you can you incrase yours?
- How to get authority, white-hat, high quality backlinks.
- Giving your visitors what they want, while keeping search engines happy.
- A complete SEO audit to check for common problems.
SEO 2019 was written by search engine veteran Andy Williams of ezSEONews.com. He has been teaching this stuff since 2003, in his free weekly newsletter. If you want to understand what the search engines want, and learn modern search engine optimization that gets higher rankings through great content and smart backlinking, explode your traffic, AND have Google’s blessing, then you should read this book.
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Layout and Composition for Animation
This essential, hands-on guide is filled with examples of what a composition should look like and example of poorly designed layouts. Spot potential problems before they cost time and money, and adapt creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists. With Beauty and the Beast examples and Simpson character layouts, readers will learn how to develop character layout and background layout as well as strengthen composition styles with a creative toolset of trick shot examples and inspirational case studies. A companion website will include further technique based tools, finalized layout and composition examples and tutorials for further artistic skill development.
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Getting Started with Processing, 2E: A Hands-On Introduction to Making Interactive Graphics (Make: Technology on Your Time)
Processing opened up the world of programming to artists, designers, educators, and beginners. This short book gently introduces the core concepts of computer programming and working with Processing. Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, Reas and Fry, Getting Started with Processing shows you how easy it is to make software and systems with interactive graphics. If you’re an artist looking to develop interactive graphics programs or a programmer on your way to becoming an artist, this book will take you where you want to go. Updated with new material on graphics manipulation, data, and for the latest version of Processing.
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Character Mentor: Learn by Example to Use Expressions, Poses, and Staging to Bring Your Characters to Life
You’ve researched your character extensively, tailored her to your audience, sketched hundreds of versions, and now you lean back content as you gaze at your final character model sheet. But now what? Whether you want to use her in an animated film, television show, video game, web comic, or children’s book, you’re going to have to make her perform. How a character looks and is costumed starts to tell her story, but her body language reveals even more. Character Mentor shows you how to pose your character, create emotion through facial expressions, and stage your character to create drama. Author Tom Bancroft addresses each topic with clear, concise prose, and then shows you what he really means through commenting on and redrawing artwork from a variety of student “apprentices.” His assignments allow you to join in and bring your drawing to the next level with concrete techniques, as well as more theoretical analysis. Character Mentor is an apprenticeship in a book.
Professional artists from a variety of media offer their experience through additional commentary. These include Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), Terry Dodson (X-Men), Bobby Rubio (Pixar), Sean “Cheeks” Galloway (Spiderman animated), and more. With a foreword by comicbook artist Adam Hughes, who has produced work for DC, Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. Pictures, and other companies.
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Getting Started in ZBrush: An Introduction to Digital Sculpting and Illustration
Getting Started in ZBrush is a gentle introduction to ZBrush, today’s premier digital sculpting program. Beginning with the fundamentals of digital sculpting as well as a thorough introduction to the user interface, Getting Started in ZBrush will have you creating a variety of professional-level 3D models in no-time. More than just another button-pushing manual, this comprehensive guide is packed with start-to-finish projects that ease you into the workflow of the program, while at the same time providing tips and tricks that will allow you to achieve certain tasks much more quickly. After progressing through the tutorials, you will be shown how to customize brushes, materials, scripts, and the interface so that you can utilize these tools to their full advantage.
Special consideration is given to ZBrush’s integration plug-ins with Maya and 3ds Max, allowing you to properly import and export your models in all programs. Texturing, painting, mapping, decimation, baking, and topology are also fully covered so your Zbrush creations can come to life without sacrificing that high-resolution look.
- Ease your way into this complex subject with this straight-forward approach to ZBrush
- Perfect your technique with step-by-step tutorials that allow you to create high res models from start to finish.
- Expand your knowledge by visiting the companion website, which features video demonstrations, project files, texture and model files, scripts, customized menus, brushes, and additional resources.
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd
Randall Munroe is . . .’Nerd royalty’ Ben Goldacre
‘Totally brilliant’ Tim Harford
‘Laugh-out-loud funny’ Bill Gates
‘Wonderful’ Neil Gaiman
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The world’s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It’s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
‘How strange science can fix everyday problems’ New Scientist
‘A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride’ Nature
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YouTube Planning Book for Kids (2nd Edition): a notebook for budding YouTubers and Vloggers
A #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER!
“Perfect little planning notebook to get the kids writing their own plans before getting immersed in their videos and screentime. And a cute record to keep of all of their ideas!”
>>Perfect accompaniment to a YouTube or Vlogging Guidebook
Got a child who loves Vlogging and YouTube and loves making their own videos or wants to start? Help them harness their ideas and filming skills and get planning like a pro with this kid-friendly YouTube planning notebook.
Get them off their screens 24/7 and help them hone their writing, planning, organising, editing, marketing and business skills through a hobby they love – and make better videos because of it!
Includes hints and tips on how to make good videos, how to stay safe when publishing online, and a review section to keep thinking about what you do and how to make it better each time.
10 double-page-spread planning pages to get you started on your YouTube journey.
Don’t miss our new Minecraft Planning Book too! Available on Amazon now
PLEASE NOTE: This is predominantely a notebook, with lots of space for your child to plan and write down their own ideas. There is guidance at the start on how to do this, and each planning page is split into sections to help create logical, structured videos with an audience in mind. It is the perfect accompaniment to the many in-depth Vlogging Guidebooks there are available. It’s a little bit about reading and learning, but much more so about thinking, planning, writing, drawing and doing!
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