Since 2006, Chris Grover, owner of Bolinas Road Creative has authored or co-authored 18 books in O'Reilly Media's Missing Manual series. The books listed here are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or directly from O'Reilly Media.
Dreamweaver CC: The Missing Manual, second edition
David Sawyer MacFarland & Chris Grover
Dreamweaver CC is a powerful tool for designing all kinds of websites, from those with simple, static pages to interactive, media-driven sites for desktop, laptop, and mobile devices. This book covers the 2014 version of Dreamweaver CC. With hands-on tutorials and coverage of every feature, you’ll learn to build, deploy, and manage sites whether you’re an experienced designer or just getting started.
Dreamweaver CC: The Missing Manual
David Sawyer MacFarland & Chris Grover
Dreamweaver CC comes packed with features and a new, online-only home, but it still doesn’t include a printed guide to working in the cloud or tapping the program’s amazing features. That’s where this Missing Manual comes in. With its jargon-free explanations and hands-on tutorials, you’ll learn how to create every kind of website, from single-purpose static sites to interactive, multimedia-driven web dynamos.
Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Office 2011 for Mac is easy to use, but to unleash its full power, you need to go beyond the basics. This entertaining guide not only gets you started with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the new Outlook for Mac, it also reveals lots of useful things you didn't know the software could do. Get crystal-clear explanations on the features you use most -- and plenty of power-user tips when you're ready for more.
Adobe Edge Animate
Chris Grover
Want to create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features? You’ve come to the right book. Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge Animate writes all of the code for you. With this book, you’ll be designing great-looking web elements in no time.
Google Sketchup: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
If you want to learn to create 3-D models using Google SketchUp, this Missing Manual is the ideal place to start. Filled with step-by-step tutorials, this entertaining, reader-friendly guide will have you creating detailed 3-D objects, including house building plans, furniture plans, landscaping plans -- even characters for computer games -- in no time.
Flash CS6: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
You can build everything from simple animations to full-fledged iPhone, iPad, and Android apps with Flash CS6. But learning this complex program can be difficult—unless you have this fully updated, bestselling guide. Learn how to create gorgeous Flash effects even if you have no programming experience. With Flash CS6: The Missing Manual, you’ll move from the basics to power-user tools with ease.
Flash CS6: The Missing Manual
Adobe Edge Preview 7: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Want to create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features? You’ve come to the right guide. Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge Animate writes all the code for you. With this book, you’ll be designing great-looking web elements in no time.
Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Learn how to create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe tools. Adobe Edge Animate Preview 5: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. Along the way you'll learn the basics of JavaScript and jQuery scripting. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge Animate writes all the code for you.
Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Whether you're aiming for YouTube videos or Hollywood-style epics, you need what the Premiere Elements doesn't provide: crystal-clear guidance and real world know-how. For that, this Missing Manual delivers. Packed with great ideas on how to spiff up your footage, this book helps you avoid the dreaded "Help! I Never Do Anything With My Video" syndrome. Release your inner Scorsese.
Adobe Edge Preview 3: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe design tool. Adobe Edge Preview 3: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge writes all the code for you. With this book, you’ll be designing great-looking web elements in no time.
Flash CS5.5: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
You can build everything from simple animations to full-fledged iOS and Android apps with Flash CS5.5. But learning this complex program can be difficult—unless you have this fully updated, bestselling guide. Learn how to create gorgeous Flash effects even if you have no programming experience. With Flash CS5.5: The Missing Manual, you'll move from the basics to power-user tools with ease.
Flash CS5: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Unlock the power of Adobe Flash and bring stunning animations to life onscreen. It's easy with Flash CS5: The Missing Manual. You'll start creating animations in the first chapter, and learn to produce effective, well-planned visuals that get your message across. This entertaining edition includes a complete primer on animation, a guided tour of the program's tools, new illustrations, and lots of details on working with video.
Flash CS4: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Bring gorgeous animations to life onscreen. It's easy with Flash CS4: The Missing Manual. You'll start creating animations in the first chapter, and will learn to produce effective, well-planned visuals that get your message across. This entertaining new edition includes a complete primer on animation, a guided tour of the program's tools, lots of new illustrations, and more details on working with video. Beginners will learn to use the software in no time, and experienced Flash designers will improve their skills.
Word 2007: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Microsoft Word has grown considerably in power, sophistication and capability over the past decade, but one thing that hasn't changed since the early '90s is its user interface. The simple toolbar in version 2.0 has been packed with so many features since then that few users know where to find them all. Consequently, more and more people are looking for "insider" tips that will allow them to use these advanced and often hidden features. Microsoft has addressed this problem in Word 2007 by radically redesigning the user interface with a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate and use.
Office 2007: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald & E. A. Vander Veer
Quickly learn the most useful features of Microsoft Office 2007 with our easy to read four-in-one guide. This fast-paced book gives you the basics of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access so you can start using the new versions of these major Office applications right away. this quick & friendly primer teaches you how to work with the most-used Office features, with four separate sections covering the four programs.
Word 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Fast-paced and easy to read, this concise book teaches you the basics of Word 2007 so you can start using the program right away. Not only will you learn how to work with Word's most useful features to create documents, format and edit text, share the results and more. You'll also discover how to go beyond basic documents to handle graphics, create page layouts, and use forms and tables.
Flash CS3: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover & E.A. Vander Veer
Flash CS3 is the premier tool for creating web animations and interactive web sites, but can be intimidating to learn. This entertaining reference tutorial provides a reader-friendly animation primer and a guided tour of all the program's tools and capabilities. Beginners will learn to use the software in no time, and experienced users will quickly take their skills to the next level. The book gives Flash users of all levels hands-on instructions to help them master special effects morphing and adding audio and video to web pages.
Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
Digital Photography: The Missing Manual helps you to take beautiful digital pictures—of your baby, your trip to Paris, your new pet iguana—and then share the stunning results with your friends and family. Spiked with the advice and humor that are trademarks of the Missing Manual series, this book shows you how to: Master your digital camera. Learn how to use those mysterious buttons and modes to improve your pictures. Take memorable photos. Become a better photographer right away with a few simple tricks from the pros. Edit your photos to remove red eye, or crop out extraneous buildings.