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  • Recently Published
    Web Redesign: Workflow That Works; Programming ColdFusion; and Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach
  • What's Hot?
    Web development bestsellers
  • Recommended Reading
    Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
  • Almost Published
    Books that are selling before they've even been printed

Recently Published
Web Redesign : Workflow That Works
by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler
When it comes to Web development, there is often a focus on the latest and greatest, most productive technologies to build solutions. However, even the wisest technology decisions can't make for a cost-effective development process if workflow isn't managed efficiently. This colorful book defines a specific process to be applied to the full development cycle--from idea development to post-launch analysis and maintenance. The Core Process set forth by the authors uses a five-step strategy, each with three separate tracks that run either sequentially or concurrently. Depending on whether you're developing internal Web sites or sites for customers, you may find some of the steps more or less important; however, the process can be easily tweaked to fit any Web development project.

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Programming Coldfusion
by Rob Brooks-Bilson
As one of the most powerful server-side languages for building dynamic Web applications, ColdFusion is a key technology for high-end Web development. Programming ColdFusion is a comprehensive tutorial to ColdFusion that puts all of the material necessary to master this scripting language between two covers. This book is suitable for experienced Web developers with no background in ColdFusion who want to learn the development tool from scratch, but it's especially well suited to those with some prior exposure to ColdFusion who want to master the product.

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Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach
by Russell Nakano
There have been many books written on managing a Web project, understanding Web technologies, building a Web property and ensuring usability. Each of these deals with the perplexing challenge of the Web by delving deeply into a specific aspect: processes, technology, or people. This book is a combination of all three. It has to be. Content management is a technology solution that's implemented using specific techniques (e.g. workflow analysis, deployment solutions) to ensure wide-scale usability (from Web developers to content contributors). --From the publisher

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What's Hot?
Books That Are Flying off Our Shelves

Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability
by Elfriede Dustin, et al
Quality Web Systems is another thorough and complete book by the same team who wrote Automated Software Testing. I am finding the same quality and insight in this book. Web Systems testing is the critical testing area in software quality assurance today. I appreciate the thoughtful and practical approach this text takes. I found the sections on Usability Test Strategies and the test tool evaluation guide particularly relevant to my situation. I think this is a book every tester should have. I highly recommend it. --A customer from Issaquah, Washington

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Dynamic WAP Application Development
by Soo Mee Foo, et al
Dynamic WAP Application Development provides developers with the necessary skills to develop WAP applications and build dynamic Web sites for wireless use. The book first introduces the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and offers an in-depth explanation of the prominent wireless languages. The authors begin with HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language), the first wireless language and one still supported by many Internet-enabled phones in the United States. They next cover WML (Wireless Markup Language), the XML-based successor to HDML that is supported by most phones worldwide. The third language described is WMLScript, the client-side scripting language of the wireless world that enables the developer to include procedure logic within their WML markup. In addition to hands-on practice with each of these languages, the book examines the issues involved in wireless application design and in converting HDML documents into WML. --From the publisher

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Internet & World Wide Web How to Program
by Harvey M. Deitel, et al
With this book, you can learn Web-centered development from the ground up, at the same time you learn the fundamentals of programming. Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, Second Edition features the Deitels' signature "live code approach": thousands of lines of live code, explained with exceptional clarity by the renowned programming trainers of Deitel & Associates. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, and contains brand-new chapters on XHTML, wireless Internet development, Web security, accessibility, Python, and PHP. --From the back cover

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Recommended Reading
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Starting with the weird behavior of the semi-colonial organisms we call slime molds, Johnson details the development of increasingly complex and familiar behavior among simple components: cells, insects, and software developers all find their place in greater schemes.

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Almost Published
What Web Development Gurus Will Be Reading Next

Perl for Web Site Management
by John Callender
Checking links, batch editing HTML files, tracking users, and writing CGI scripts--these are the often tedious daily tasks that can be done much more easily with Perl, the scripting language that runs on almost all computing platforms. If you're more interested in streamlining your Web activities than in learning a new programming language, Perl for Web Site Management is for you: it's not so much about learning Perl as it is about using Perl to do common Web chores more efficiently. --From the back cover

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Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
by Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed is renowned Web usability evangelist Jakob Nielsen and research partner Marie Tahir applying Web usability metrics--as well as some very interesting commentary backed up with quantitative research and analysis--to some of the most high-profile sites on the Web. If Nielsen's groundbreaking Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity is an entertaining academic lecture-hall experience, Homepage Usability is pure field trip. --From the publisher

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