- Paperback: 734 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (8 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470055030
- ISBN-13: 978-0470055038
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 4.1 x 23.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 542,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer will simplify the development of rich, interactive Web applications and this comprehensive reference introduces every tool and characteristic of this new software
- Detailing the ins and outs of the program, veteran authors Gurdy and Mary Leete provide professional Web designers, developers, and serious home users with the know–how they need to create amazing Web sites
- Readers interested in online game development will enjoy the coverage of 3D Web animations–something Flash can′t do
- Key topics include working with drawings, text, and 3D objects; adding audio, video, and animation; programming Expression Interactive Designer; and more
- Discusses how to integrate this program with the Vista operating system as well as other components of the Expression suite
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Create amazing interfaces that encourage visitors
The impact of an aesthetically pleasing user interface is remarkable. Web site visitors respond eagerly to attractive, easy–to–use designs, and Blend allows you to create these with much less effort. This A–to–Z guide shows you how to design a new generation of applications that make the most of digital media, including animation, 3D, audio and video, sophisticated typography, and other stunning visual effects—all without bogging down in code. Here′s everything you need to succeed with Blend.
- Apply principles of interactive design, graphic design, and animation
Create and transform vector graphics
Explore animated transparencies and opacity masks
Use ready–made Windows® Presentation Foundation controls, or create your own
Connect your applications to data sources
Companion Web site
At www.blendtips.com, you can download files to use while working on the examples presented in the book and modify them to create your own features. The site also includes full–color figures from the book and late–breaking news about Blend.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was purchased to try and link Blend into my Expression website. It is very good on how to create moving animations, banners etc, but is not so good at placing them into websites.
Better examples of this would have been far easier to follow.
Better examples of this would have been far easier to follow.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Better than nothing
11 Jun 2007
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I've been using Blend/Design and WPF for awhile and I've been relying on Adam Nathan's "Window's Presentation Foundation" book for a reference. Nathan's book is very good, but is lacking advice for using Blend (which isn't surprising since his book was released in Dec 06 and Blend wasn't commercially available until May 07). I was looking to fill the gap with this book.
The "Microsoft Expression Blend Bible" is the first of a slew of Blend books that are coming. I bought it the day it was available on Amazon and have read through it. Frankly I'm a bit disappointed. I guess I shouldn't be, usually the first book to market is a bit rushed. There is good stuff in the book, but the first 3 chapters are just filler and have little information related to Blend. The rest of the book is a very shallow tour of a large number of features supported by Blend.
I would say that this book is better than nothing (which is your alternative right now). But I suspect books that are coming out late this summer and in the fall will replace this book in my library. The bottom line is if you need to get started now, get this book and Adam Nathan's book. If you can wait, then check out then reviews of Blend related books in the fall. I'm sure something better will come along.
The "Microsoft Expression Blend Bible" is the first of a slew of Blend books that are coming. I bought it the day it was available on Amazon and have read through it. Frankly I'm a bit disappointed. I guess I shouldn't be, usually the first book to market is a bit rushed. There is good stuff in the book, but the first 3 chapters are just filler and have little information related to Blend. The rest of the book is a very shallow tour of a large number of features supported by Blend.
I would say that this book is better than nothing (which is your alternative right now). But I suspect books that are coming out late this summer and in the fall will replace this book in my library. The bottom line is if you need to get started now, get this book and Adam Nathan's book. If you can wait, then check out then reviews of Blend related books in the fall. I'm sure something better will come along.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Shallow and not useful
15 Jun 2007
Format:Paperback
Lots of filler information to make this book big. Very little information on how to accomplish things in Blend.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Misses the mark in so many places.
4 July 2007
Format:Paperback
This is a terrible book, obviously rushed to print that is all over the map. It tries (and fails) to be a book on user interface, WPF, Expression Blend, elementary C# programming, and most bizarrely how to tell a story (to give an example of how they filled this book they spend one page summarizing Aristole's De Poetica). The examples of using Blend itself are so convoluted and poorly explained that I couldn't figure out how to do half of them, and since Blend is a relatively radical change from standard Microsoft Designer and Programmer UI's walking through the steps more clearly would have been the minimum one would have expected. All the screenshots included are so small (and full screen) so you can't even make out what they are talking about. As I am not a graphics designer, this may have some appeal to that crowd (though I can't imagine why), this is not the book to use to learn Expression Blend from a programmers perspective. The code in here is also TERRIBLE (for example they create XML by creating XML strings one at a time and then appending that to a file?? If you are going to create XML with a string at least use the StringBuilder class but really this should have been done with XMLWriter or at worst the XmlDocument.) Avoid this book at all costs.
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