This book is for anyone who wants to learn about using .NET for web interface design. Beginner or hobbyist .NET developers can certainly get a good foundation of .NET web interface design by going through this book from cover to cover. However, more seasoned .NET professionals, especially if they tend to steer away from the GUI of their projects, can also pick up a thing or two by focusing on certain chapters that appeal to them. This book is meant to take a reader from the beginning of a project to the completion of the interface design. Along the way, concepts are illustrated to show how the different pieces play together. So, anyone who really wants to understand the concepts presented in this book will be able to do so by reading the entire thing. However, this book should also serve as a good reference after you have read it or, in some cases, in place of reading it. All of the early chapters provide useful information and examples for any web developer. Many of the concepts presented after Chapter 4 are more specifically targeted at .NET developers. In the later chapters, the target audience is .NET developers or, at least, people who want to become .NET developers. In those chapters, you should probably have at least a basic understanding of the .NET Framework and some experience with Visual Studio 2005 (or possibly Visual Studio 2003). If you are completely new to .NET, you may find it useful to pick up a beginning ASP.NET 2.0 book before delving too deeply into those chapters. If you want to learn about .NET 2.0 web interface design, you are the intended audience. It should be noted that all of the .NET code samples in this book are in C#. However, this shouldn’t limit other developers, such as VB.NET developers, from understanding the concepts or being able to replicate the code in their own projects. The actual managed code examples are pretty limited and, when they are used, they should be fairly easy to port over to VB.NET. This book covers the concepts serious developers need to begin designing cool and consistent web layouts. The early chapters focus on general web design standards that you need to grasp in order to move into the later chapters. Specifically, these concepts are: <ul>
<li> Basic web design considerations (colors, fonts, images, accessibility, and so on) (Chapter 2) </li> <li> Photoshop basics to get you started making your own graphics and color schemes (Chapter 3) </li> <li> Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and their use in web design layout (Chapter 4) </li> </ul>
When you finish these chapters, you will have the basic shell for the project that you will continue to develop throughout the book. You will have the header graphic, color scheme, and CSS layout that you will begin to incorporate .NET-specific concepts to in the later chapters. This includes: <ul>
<li> How to make .NET controls render accessible CSS code rather than their default: tables (Chapter 5) </li> <li> Using the built-in controls of .NET to create easily maintainable and consistent site navigation (and how to make them render CSS divs instead of tables) (Chapter 6) </li> <li> Creating your web site template with Master Pages (Chapter 7) </li> <li> Creating themes and skins to style your .NET controls (Chapter 8) </li> <li> Applying themes to your projects through various approaches, including base classing (Chapter 9) </li> </ul>
The final “regular” chapter ends with you building an entirely new mobile device theme using all of the concepts learned in the previous chapters. In Chapter 10, you will start with modifying your graphic to better fit the resolution of your mobile devices. You will also learn how to modify your stylesheets and apply them programmatically to be used only for this theme. You will have a new Master Page and an entirely new theme. You will also see one way of switching themes based on your criteria (in this example, your criterion will be whether your client browser is a mobile device). Beyond these chapters, you will get a “forward look” at some of the new technologies coming down the pipeline that affect these some of the material you learned in the preceding chapters. In Appendix A, you will get a glimpse at the upcoming release for Visual Studio, codenamed “Orcas.” This will almost exclusively focus on the new CSS features because they are the most relevant to the other chapters of the book, and there are so many new features regarding CSS management in this release that they warrant their own chapter (nested Master Pages are also included, but CSS takes up most of the appendix). Finally, with Appendix B, the Visual Studio Codename “Orcas” discussion is extended to include Microsoft Silverlight. You will learn how to create drawing object, incorporate images, animate your objects, and affect the rendered output through your managed code. If you read this book from cover to cover, you should end up with a really solid understanding of the current technologies for .NET developers to create consistent and accessible web interfaces, as well as a feeling of excitement for the new stuff that should be coming soon to a computer near you.

Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design: CSS, Themes, and Master Pages

Computers & Technology

Sanford, Jacob J.

Web Development & Design

Wrox

From the planning details to the steps to the considerations, understand how to design the perfect SharePoint implementation by applying the information in Professional SharePoint 2007 Design. Begin with an overview of a installation and move through the technical aspects of creating usable, accessible, aesthetically pleasing SharePoint interfaces, with a primary focus on using SharePoint’s basic design tools to create a better looking and more effective installation. Understand how to use PhotoShop to design the graphics and template model for your site and learn how to integrate SharePoint themes.

Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Design

Drisgill, Randy

Drinkwine, David

Cavusoglu, Coskun

Wrox Pr Inc

Essential guide to developing and deploying high-profile reports in SharePoint Build customized reports quickly and efficiently with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services for SharePoint sites and this unique guide. Developers, you'll learn report development and deployment; SharePoint or SQL Server Reporting Services administrators, you'll see how to leverage SharePoint to use SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode. This valuable book walks users through the entire process: planning, developing, and deploying reports. You'll discover techniques, tricks, and workarounds that allow you to produce great-looking charts and reports for your SharePoint sites. <ul>
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Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Alirezaei, Reza

Networking & Cloud Computing

A must have guide for creating engaging and usable SharePoint 2010 branding With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance for creating beautiful public facing and internal intranet sites but it also addresses the needs of those readers that only want to understand the basics enough to apply some style to their sites. Things like creative design, the experience visitors have navigating your user interface, ease of use—these are all important branding considerations and not always intuitive. This unique book from a team of SharePoint branding experts lays it all out. Whether you want to make SharePoint look completely different or just make minor design changes, this expert guide will provide tips, techniques, and insights to get the job done.

Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design

ROSS, JOHN

Stubbs, Paul

Riemann, Larry

Skillfully deploy Microsoft Syntex to automate your organization's document processing and management In Microsoft Syntex in the Real World: Bringing Practical Cloud AI to Information Management, a team of veteran Microsoft AI consultants delivers an insightful and easy-to-follow exploration of how to apply Syntex' content AI and advanced machine learning capabilities to your firm's document processing automation project. Using a simple, low-code/no-code approach, the authors explain how you can find, organize, and classify the documents in your SharePoint libraries. You'll learn to use Microsoft Syntex to automate forms processing, document understanding, image processing, content assembly, and metadata search. Readers will also find: <ul> <li>Strategies for using both custom and pre-built, "off-the-rack" models to build your solutions</li> <li>The information you need to understand the Azure Cognitive Services ecosystem more fully and how you can use it to build custom tools for your organization</li> <li>Examples of solutions that will allow you to avoid the manual processing of thousands of your own documents and files</li> </ul> An essential and hands-on resource for information managers, Microsoft Syntex in the Real World is a powerful tool for developers and non-developers alike.

Microsoft SharePoint Premium in the Real World: Bringing Practical Cloud AI to Content Management (Tech Today)

Dennis, Ryan

Windischman, Woodrow W.

Willard, Dustin

Computer Science

wiley

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