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Summary of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
1. Anatomy of a Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Designing in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3. Everything Must Go! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4. Going Freelance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5. Successful PSD to HTML Freelancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6. Write Email Markup That Doesn’t Explode in the Inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
7. Make Your Website Stand Out from the Crowd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8. Information Organization and the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
9. Using Vector Graphics to Build a Noughts & Crosses Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
10. Efficient ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
11. Databases: The Basic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
12. The Iceberg of TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
THINKINGWEB
VOICESOFTHECOMMUNITY
BY
JOHNBORDA
URSULACOMEAU
SHERRYCURRY
ALEXDAWSON
COYOTEHOLMBERG
RALPHMASON
PAULO’BRIEN
CHRISTIANSNODGRASS
ROBERTWELLOCK
CLIVEWICKHAM
NURIAZUAZO
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Thinking Web: Voices of the Community
by John Borda, Ursula Comeau, Sherry Curry, Alex Dawson, Coyote Holmberg,
Ralph Mason, Paul O’Brien, Christian Snodgrass, Robert Wellock, Clive Wickham,
and Nuria Zuazo
Program Director
: Lisa Lang
Editor
: Kelly Steele
Technical Editor
: Louis Simoneau
Cover Design
: Alex Walker
Community Manager
: Sarah Hawk
Printing History
:
First Edition: March 2011
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About John Borda
John Borda has been designing websites for over 15 years, the last three as a freelancer at
Bordaline Web Design (www.bordaline.co.uk). Originally from Gibraltar, he now lives in
Newmarket, UK with his wife and three children. In 2009, John won the Newmarket Business
Association’s Community Engagement award for his involvement with a number of charities
and nonprofit groups.
About Ursula Comeau
Ursula Tathiana Comeau, nicknamed the WP Gal, is a self-taught WordPress addict who
loves everything to do with WordPress, blogging, and social media. She has a strong back-
ground in service, support, and technical training, and has been using computers and tech-
nology since the mid-80s. Born in Brazil, Ursula enjoyed a stint in the US from 1985 to 1988,
before moving to Canada to live permanently. Ursula has been an active internet citizen since
1995.
You can drop by and say hi to her at http://ucwebcreations.com/, and if you’d like to hear
her music, visit http://tathiana.com/.
About Sherry Curry
Sheryl Moore Curry is an assistant professor of library science and Head of Information &
Web Technology Services at Edith Garland Dupré Library, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(USA). She has an MLIS degree from Louisiana State University, and is editor of the review
column for the journal
LouisianaLibraries
and co-author of
Newbery&CaldecottAwards:
ASubjectIndex
(Linwood Book Group, 2003). Sherry has written articles and book chapters
on a variety of topics, as well as presented at national conferences on first-time publishing,
web design, popular technological innovation choices, and the relationship between systems
and services.
About Alex Dawson
Alexander Dawson (@AlexDawsonUK) is an award-winning, self-taught, freelance web pro-
fessional, writer, published author, and recreational software developer from Brighton, Eng-
land. With more than 10 years of industry experience, Alex spends his days running his
consultancy firm HiTechy (
, writing professionally about web
design, and giving his free time to assist others in the field.
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