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The Art and Science of Web Design
by Jeffrey Veen
The Art & Science of Web Design is a valuable tool for anyone looking to develop quality site design skills. Author Jeffrey Veen, design specialist and former designer of HotWired.com, takes the reader through a guided tour of the Web design landscape, offering personal opinions and a solid understanding of traditional design philosophies. This book is in itself an example of crisp design, using color to accent its pages and provide a comfortable read. Key topics include site structure, interactivity, advertising, and performance. When it comes to a topic as complex as Web design, it pays to learn from a master.

Professional Perl Programming
by Peter Wainwright, et al
Open source, freely available, portable, versatile, and robust, powerful, and easy to use, Perl is the first choice for thousands of professional Web developers. But Perl is far more than a scripting language for the Web. Supported by a comprehensive standard library and hundreds of third-party libraries, Perl is an increasingly popular choice for application programming. Professional Perl Programming covers the fundamentals of data types and file handling through advanced features like regular expressions, object-oriented programming, threads, internationalization, and integrating Perl with the C programming language. The latest version of the language, Perl 5.6, is used throughout, with commentary for those with earlier versions. --From the book description

Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug, Roger Black
If you prefer less intense coverage of usability, Don't Make Me Think offers a common sense approach to making your Web sites as intuitive as possible. Author Steve Krug works off the premise that a good Web site doesn't make the user think any more than necessary, and offers some useful tips for designing your sites with that concept in mind. He doesn't try to introduce you to the entire field of usability, but rather focuses on key techniques that will prove most useful. The book includes many well-chosen examples of what's right and wrong with various Web sites. Colorful pages and an ample dose of humor make this book thoroughly enjoyable.

XML in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference (Nutshell Handbook)
by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means
Continuing in the tradition of the Nutshell series, XML in a Nutshell provides a dense tutorial on its subject, as well as a useful day-to-day reference. While the reader isn't expected to have prior expertise in XML, this book is most effective as an add-on to a more introductory tutorial because of its relatively fast pace.

Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference
by Ray West, et al
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference is more than just a simple resource book that covers the basic bells and whistles that many resource books tend to follow. I've been a fan of Dreamweaver for the past four years making most of my Web sites with limited information on the more technical aspects of Dreamweaver UltraDev. This book, however, has some of the most advanced technical experts using UltraDev showing you the inner workings of this powerful program. This book covers every aspect of UltraDev from configuring your site to utilizing the powerful languages of ASP, Java, and ColdFusion. --From Amazon.com customer, Bruce G. Neiman

Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide
by Ben Forta, et al
ColdFusion's popularity continues to grow, and along with that so has the demand for experienced developers. The Certified ColdFusion Developer certification is not an easy exam, and examinees are tested on a wide range of topics--from ColdFusion and CFML to SQL and database concepts to HTML and Internet fundamentals. And that's why you need the Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide. To prepare for your exam you should start at the beginning of the book and systematically work you way through it. The book flow, layout, and form-factor have all been especially designed to make reviewing content as pleasant an experience as possible. --From the author

Dynamic WAP Application Development
by Soo Meel Foo, et al
Wireless Web browsing has opened up countless opportunities for wireless application developers. Dynamic WAP Application Development serves as a comprehensive guide to building dynamic Web sites for wireless use. This book introduces WAP and explains prominent wireless languages such as HDML, WML, and WMLScript. Check out this book if you are serious about one of two things: developing new, robust Web services; or extending existing Web services to your current wireless phone subscribers. --From the publisher

The Big Red Fez: How to Make Any Web Site Better [E-BOOK: ADOBE READER]
by Seth Godin
Seth Godin, author of the New York Times bestseller Permission Marketing, is back. His just-released The Big Red Fez: How to Make Any Web Site Better--available exclusively as an e-book at Amazon.com--illustrates which Web sites work best, which ones don't work at all, and why.

Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio
Macromedia
Develop dynamic and interactive content for the Web with Director 8.5 and the new Shockwave Player 3D. Whether you're designing 3-D games, interactive product demonstrations, or online learning applications, new features such as scalable 3-D content, Flash 5 integration, and RealMedia support for streaming audio and video add up to Macromedia's most comprehensive Web content solution ever. And with the new Shockwave Multiuser Server 3, developers can add collaborative multimedia to their Web sites quickly and easily. Check out the Windows or Mac version today.

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