download - UX Design Tools: Axure ( Lynda )

Axure is a wireframing and prototyping tool for web and user experience designers. You can use it to create user flows and sitemaps, click-through wireframes, and robust, fully interactive prototypes. This course shows you how. Brian Thurston Bralczyk introduces Axure's ready-made widgets, functioning form elements, and dynamic content that can be hidden, moved around the page, or even animated. Plus, learn how to generate flows and sitemaps, and create adaptive web designs to view your project on a range of devices. By the end of this course, you'll be able to create prototypes that will help you communicate your designs to clients and developers, or even run large usability tests with prospective users.

Topics include:

• Using and styling widgets
• Setting up interactions
• Creating hide/show options for content
• Creating an accordion menu
• Applying web fonts
• Using flow widgets
• Creating and placing masters
• Styling pages
• Adding form fields with widgets
• Building a slideshow with dynamic panels
• Setting up adaptive views

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download - Lynda.com - UX Design Tools Balsamiq Mockups with Justin Putney

Wireframes and prototypes are key to making successful products. But what tools should you use? Balsamiq Mockups is a dedicated wireframing tool that helps you lay out your ideas quickly. In these tutorials, Justin Putney shows how to use Balsamiq Mockups to create richly layered interface elements, turn assets into reusable symbols, and add interactive and responsive design features to your mockups. When you're done with your mockup, he'll show you how to export it to share with clients and developers.

Topics include:

• Adding, aligning, and layering elements
• Adding and formatting placeholder text
• Building symbols
• Adding new control types using Mockups To Go
• Creating links and hot areas
• Making wireframes for tablets and smartphones
• Exporting mockups for review

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download - Lynda.com - PHP with MySQL Essential Training

PHP is a popular, reliable programming language at the foundation of many smart, data-driven websites. This comprehensive course from Kevin Skoglund helps developers learn the basics of PHP (including variables, logical expressions, loops, and functions), understand how to connect PHP to a MySQL database, and gain experience developing a complete web application with site navigation, form validation, and a password-protected admin area. Kevin also covers the basic CRUD routines for updating a database, debugging techniques, and usable user interfaces. Along the way, he provides practical advice, offers examples of best practices, and demonstrates refactoring techniques to improve existing code.

Topics include:

• What is PHP?
• Installing and configuring PHP and MySQL
• Exploring data types
• Controlling code with logical expressions and loops
• Using PHP's built-in functions
• Writing custom functions
• Building dynamic webpages
• Working with forms and form data
• Using cookies and sessions to store data
• Connecting to MySQL with PHP
• Creating and editing database records
• Building a content management system
• Adding user authentication

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download - Lynda.com - Node.js First Look

JavaScript isn't just for special effects and form validations anymore; Node.js makes it possible to write full web applications entirely in JavaScript. In this course, author Joseph LeBlanc guides you through installing Node.js for the first time, as well as installing Node modules through NPM and writing command-line scripts. The course also covers creating servers, using Node-based frameworks, building templated markup, integrating Node with legacy codebases, programming for WebSockets using the Socket.IO module, and much more.

Topics include:

• Using the Socket.IO Node package to achieve "live" effects like Facebook notifications
• Templating your markup in the back end using popular JavaScript libraries
• Scraping web sites using jQuery without a browser
• Validating your JavaScript code before running it

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download - Lynda.com - JavaScript and JSON

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) has replaced XML as the core way of sharing data, especially when it comes to JavaScript, since it's so much faster, sleeker, and easier to parse. In this course, dive into working with JSON tools, designing JSON objects, and using different ways to handling JSON data. Author Ray Villalobos also shows how to use AJAX and jQuery to parse your data and feeds, and shows JavaScript and JSON in action in a real-world practical application.

Topics include:

• What is JSON?
• Creating simple data
• Debugging JavaScript objects in the browser
• Communicating across sites with JSONP
• Rotating with jQuery Cycle

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download - Lynda.com - Git Essential Training

The course shows how to use Git, the popular open-source version control software, to manage changes to source code and text files. Using a step-by-step approach, author Kevin Skoglund presents the commands that enable efficient code management and reveals the fundamental concepts behind version control systems and the Git architecture. Discover how to track changes to files in a repository, review previous edits, and compare versions of a file; create branches to test new ideas without altering the main project; and merge those changes into the project if they work out. The course begins by demonstrating version control in a single-user, standalone context, before exploring how remote repositories allow users to collaborate on projects effectively.

Topics include:

• Exploring the history of version control
• Installing Git on Mac, Windows, and Linux
• Initializing a repository
• Writing useful commit messages
• Understanding the Git three-tree architecture
• Tracking when files are added, edited, deleted, or moved
• Viewing change sets and comparing versions
• Undoing changes and rolling back to previous versions
• Ignoring changes to select files
• Creating and working with code branches
• Merging branches and resolving merge conflicts
• Stashing changes for later
• Working with hosted repositories and remote branches
• Developing an effective collaboration workflow

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download - Building a Website with Node.js and Express.js - Lynda

JavaScript is the language for adding interactivity to a website, but there's so much more it can do. Enter Node.js and Express.js, two technologies that extend the capabilities of JavaScript. The Node platform allows you to develop server-side applications with JavaScript that you can then easily publish as websites with the Express framework. In this course, Ray Villalobos walks through the entire process of creating a website on a server with Node.js and Express.js. After going over the installation process, Ray shows how to build a basic application, control the state of an application with routing, and use templates and partials. Then he demonstrates how to quickly structure a site with Express Generator, work with models and views, and publish the final website using Heroku.

Note: This course is intended for intermediate front-end web developers who are familiar with creating web projects and understand JavaScript basics.

Topics include:

• Installing Node.js and Express.js
• Exploring the node package manager (npm)
• Creating and modularizing routes
• Using templates
• Adding partials
• Using the Express Generator
• Preparing your site structure
• Adding static content
• Importing your data
• Passing custom data through routes
• Publishing your application

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