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On this page is a list of books that I use in my
daily work as well as in the classroom. If you click on the book
cover you will be taken to Amazon.com to purchase it. Help me
put my daughters through college!
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The Art & Science
of Web Design
Issues such as interface consistency are explored within the unique paradigm
of the Web, with the assistance of a sidebar to explain what "above
the fold" means. Performance is discussed with an unusual twist: the
current constraint on Web-browsing performance is actually good since it
fosters creativity and more elegant design and development. This, beyond
the usual design tips, is what makes this book special. Art & Science
stays at a reasonably high altitude, dwelling not on the fine details of
browser compatibility but rather on the key areas designers need to be
concerned about. With his years of experience and knowledge of the legacy
of traditional publishing, Veen has provided a great perspective on the
dicey work of Web designers. ISBN: 0789723700 |
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Don't Make Me
Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
There are many Web pages out that poke fun at other Web pages. They list
the ugliest Web pages, useless Web pages, confusing Web pages, Web pages
that suck, and so on. These places are amusing, but they pose a larger
question to those of us who have potentially embarrassing Web pages: Does
my Web page suck? And, if so, what makes it suck and how can I un-suck
it?
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Web Site Usability
Handbook
The book explores the growing field of Web usability, with equal emphasis
on theory and practicality, and focuses primarily on measuring usability
accurately and applying it to formal and informal testing. The concept
of a usability toolbox--a collection of tools and techniques--is presented,
along with sound reasoning for the use of each component. The tools vary
from index-card sorting to heuristic evaluation to focus groups. There
is some fascinating material also about the human factors of usability,
such as the mechanics of vision and the idiosyncrasies of human memory.
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The Non-Designer's
Web Book
The Non-Designer's Web Book is for anyone who has little or no background
in design or the World Wide Web, but who still wants to participate in
this communication explosion. If you are an aspiring Web designer, you'll
learn why Web design is different from print design and how to take advantage
of it, where to get or how to make Web graphics easily, how to use typography
on the Web, how to get your finished Web site up on the World Wide Web,
and much, much more. ISBN: 0201710382 |
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Web Sites That
Work
he Web design book that many have prayed for is here! Roger Black has rejuvenated
many a magazine with his insight into how graphic arts really work. Now
he turns his well-toned eye to new media, demonstrating which principles
are universal, which simply don't translate well from print, and which
allegedly great new ideas should be jettisoned before they do any further
harm. Just thumb through this gorgeous book and you'll see that
Black knows how to make graphics sing or howl--on a newspaper page or on
a 14-inch monitor. Highly recommended. ISBN: 1568303467 |
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Elements of Web
Design 2nd Edition
A guide for people who know design but don't know the Web, explaining how
the Web is different from print and covering all phases of Web design,
from building a team through structuring the Web site, controlling typography,
using graphics and multimedia, and making a site interactive. Includes
many color illustrations and examples, plus cross-references, key terms
and definitions, quick-reference guides to HTML, quotes from Web designers,
and online resources. This second edition contains sample code in HTML
4, and new illustrations. ISBN: 0201696983 |
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Web Pages That
Suck
Learn good web design by looking at bad web design. Web Pages That
Suck is the much needed, humorous and informative book by the Web's leading
critics, Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. They teach Web designers
what NOT to do, by showcasing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly already on
the web. Web site "makeovers" are the focus of this four-color,
down-to-earth title. The book takes a humorous approach to teaching Web
design techniques by critiquing bad sites and then applying common sense
and practical, hands-on guidance to create site makeovers. ISBN: 078212187X |
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Secrets of Successful
Web Sites
The first half of the book consists of case studies of the creation--often
painful--of successful Web sites. The hurdles these developers faced include
hopelessly unrealistic schedules, flaky subcontractors, confused clients,
and the immaturity of Web technology itself. Each study showcases the particular
problems that the designers faced, how they managed to overcome them, and
how you can avoid finding yourself in the same spot. The second half of
the book is a systematic exposition of the ropes: What the market realities
are, how designers and clients find each other, how to put together a proposal
and bid on a job, and how to manage a project using Web technology. ISBN: 1568303823 |
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HTML For
the WWW Visual Quick Start Guide
Ask any burgeoning Web-page author what they want in an HTML guide, and
the list would go something like this: concise, informative, plenty of
examples, a little bit of fun without being too cute. Elizabeth Castro's HTML
for the World Wide Web is that dream guide to learning this Web language. ISBN: 0201696967 |
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DHTML Visual
Quick Start Guide
With a fast-paced series of screen shots and step-by-step coding, you'll
quickly learn the basics of CSS and how to use them effectively to control
your typography and page layout. The book illustrates some of the most
common uses of CSS--including multiple backgrounds, overlapping font styles,
and columns without tables--clearly and quickly. ISBN: 0201353415 |
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Dynamic HTML in
Action
Dynamic HTML in Action does a great job of explaining how to use HTML and
Dynamic HTML, as well as client-side scripting languages and other Web
technologies (particularly as they apply to Microsoft's client-side Web
software). Primarily, this book reveals a lot about the ways Web designers
can make their pages' content look its best. Supplemented with information
about the technologies that enable clients to make queries against databases,
Dynamic HTML in Action will do a lot to improve the quality of the material
on Web sites and intranets. ISBN: 0735605637 |
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Dynamic HTML
The first of the book's four sections discusses industry standards and
how to apply the basic principles of DHTML. He emphasizes the differences
in Web browsers and discusses how to build pages so that they work well
in both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The second
section is an extensive, quick reference of all the tags, objects, and
properties of HTML, cascading style sheets, Document Object Model, and
core JavaScript. A particularly handy cross-reference guide to this information
follows, helping you locate it in alternate ways. The final section contains
appendices, with useful tables of values and commands. |
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JavaScript
For the WWW: Visual Quick Start Guide
JavaScript for the World Wide
Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Third Edition is the book for people
who already know how to build Web pages with HTML, and are ready
to take the next step in making their sites more interesting and
exciting. With an easy, step-by-step approach and loads of useful
illustrations, readers learn to use JavaScript to liven up their
pages with dynamic images and smart forms. They'll learn to control
browsers; detect which browser or plug-ins the user has and automatically
take action; use JavaScript to create and manipulate windows, and
much more. ISBN: 0201354632 |
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FrontPage
2000 Visual Quick Start Guide
FrontPage 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide offers full coverage
of FrontPage 2000, including complete details for using it with Office
2000. Clear, concise instructions and numerous illustrations make it easy
for newcomers to jump in and build all types of Web sites. Even readers
with little or no Web experience will be able to use all of the capabilities
of FrontPage 2000 to create professional-looking Web pages. ISBN: 0201354578 |
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Dreamweaver
4 Hands-On Training
The book is broken down into a series of exercises that explore Web design,
site structure, frames and tables, DHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and much
more. You'll also get Lynda's expert tips, warnings, and background information
about the techniques covered in each lesson. An accompanying CD-ROM includes
source files for the exercises, as well as QuickTime movies of key concepts. ISBN: 0201741334 |
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Designing Web
Graphics 3rd Edition
Designing Web Graphics.3 covers real-world examples, case studies, and
galleries of the webs best content. The book will cover the following new
topics: HTML editors; Web strategies; Cross-platform and cross-browser
fonts; Tools for optimization; Understanding links; Color theory; Plug-ins;
Using frames for alignment; Using tables for margins; Using tables for
animation; Cascading style sheets; Fixing bad scans; DHTML; QuickTime 3.0;
WebTV; Flash, RealAudio; RealVideo; Dreamweaver; Fireworks; and ImageReady. ISBN: 1562059491 |
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Coloring Web Graphics
"Coloring Web Graphics" is the essential Web-color book. It breaks down how the
Web uses color and explains how to properly use color on the Web. The CD-ROM
includes electronic color palettes that can be loaded into Photoshop and used
in any graphics file. The colors for browser-safe use are printed in the book
and also grouped in complementary sections for quick reference during the design
process. ISBN: 1562056697 |
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The Non-Designer's
Design Book
Outlines the essentials of page layout, emphasizing the four concrete principles
of design--proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast--in an illustrated
volume that features before and after examples of page design. Original. Robin
Williams wrote this one "for all the people who now need to design pages,
but who have no background or formal training in design." Follow the basic
principles clearly explained in this book and your work is guaranteed to
look more professional, organized, unified, and interesting. You'll never
again look at a page in the same way. Full of practical design exercises
and quizzes. ISBN: 1566091594 |
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Adobe Acrobat
Visual Quick Start Guide
Get the most out of Adobe's latest release of Acrobat with this completely
updated cross-platform guide to using Acrobat and creating PDFs, including
coverage of the all new annotation and documentation management tools.
The Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) has become the standard, cross-platform
method for sending and receiving formatted documents online. No matter
what kind of system the original PDF file was created on, it can be read
on any other system. This makes Acrobat valuable for all kinds of electronic
and online publishing. ISBN: 0201354616 |
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Adobe Photoshop
5.5 Classroom in a Book
Beginning to intermediate users of Photoshop will find the basics covered
in the introductory lessons: getting comfortable with the Photoshop interface,
using the toolbox and palettes, and working with layers and filters. Using
the building-block approach, the Adobe Development team then leads readers
into more complex tasks of image editing and photo retouching. Production
issues, color management, working with other Adobe applications in the
Photoshop environment, and the new Web material, are covered in short,
focused lessons that lead users into mastery of this popular graphics program. ISBN:
020165895X |
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Photoshop 5.5/ImageReady 2 Hands-On Training
Once you're finished with Photoshop 5.5/ImageReady 2 Hands-On Training,
the latest book from well-known Web guru, Lynda Weinman, you can say, "I've
read the book and I've seen the movie." The accompanying CD-ROM has
22 QuickTime movies, some as long as five minutes, that truly give
the feel of attending one of her seminars. Those who learn best by
watching and imitating will love this feature of the book. The book
emphasizes "hands-on" lessons that take readers through techniques
step by step and provide background information on each lesson. For
example, you not only see in detail how to optimize GIF and JPEG images
for the Web, you also get the theory behind Web-safe colors and the
downsides of badly optimized images. ISBN: 0201354675
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Flash 4! Creative
Web Animation
The book works best if read from front to back; it's too wordy to work
as a reference guide or manual (except for the appendix on keyboard shortcuts).
The book's best feature is its numerous QuickTime video tutorials on the
accompanying CD-ROM, which cover key concepts of Flash 4 usage. The videos
demonstrate the construction of Flash movies from scratch. And, since the
source file discussed in each movie is also included, readers can go back
and forth between QuickTime and Flash, rebuilding or adapting the file
for themselves. This comes as close as possible to replicating the indelible
learning process one usually gets only in "on-the-job training." ISBN:
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Flash 4 for Windows
and Macintosh : Visual QuickStart Guide
Flash is a great name for an application; who wouldn't want to add flash
to their designs? In practice, Macromedia Flash 4 is a complex set of tools
for creating animated and interactive graphics that can be played within
most up-to-date Web browsers. Flash 4 Visual QuickStart Guide is a well-paced,
thorough introduction to all that this powerful application has to offer.
The book begins by introducing the editing environment, including the toolbar,
inspectors, menus, and timeline. From there it explains how to create and
manipulate objects (graphics) and how to convert them into symbols (Flash's
term for oft-used images) that can be stored in libraries. ISBN: 020135473X |
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Access 2000
for Windows Visual Quick Start Guide
Offers a clear, easy-to-follow, task-based format that guides you through
the information you need to get right to work. Learn how to get the most
out Access's powerful data-handling features, from its user-friendly wizards
and templates to its advanced customization options, by following the book's
concise, step-by-step instructions and the hundreds of screenshots that
accompany them. Long after you've mastered the basics, this book will continue
to be a helpful reference you can turn to for a quick refresher on any
topic. ISBN: 0201354349 |
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This book has a specific audience in mind
and was designed to be very different from other offerings out
there. This book is oriented towards users ColdFusion and other
client applications, Word users who need to mail-merge against
a back end database, report writer users needing to extract information
from corporate data stores, and anyone who needs to manipulate
and interact with databases, but for whom database manipulation
is not a full-time job. ISBN: 0672316641 |
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The Cold
Fusion Web Application Construction Kit
Using ColdFusion to its full potential requires a fairly broad knowledge
base, which Forta helps you develop. He begins with simple database-query
applications and moves on to full-featured electronic-commerce systems.
He includes instructions for using the ColdFusion tools, of course, but
you'll also discover tutorials and references on the ColdFusion Markup
Language (CFML), SQL, and the Verity search language. Even if you've never
used any language other than HTML, you'll feel comfortable learning from
this book.
ISBN: 078971809X |
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Sams Teach Yourself
ColdFusion Express
A step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to turn basic Web sites into
Web applications. From installation to database connection configuration,
from tag and function usage to code reuse, this book helps you take advantage
of Web application technology so you can take your Web sites to the next
level. Learn how to interact with databases to create dynamic data driven
web sites, how to perform intelligent server side condition and logical
processing, how to create guest books, counters, and other server side
applications, as well as how to create personalized and interactive Web
sites. ISBN: 0672316625 |
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Creating
Stores on the Web, Second Edition
Creating Stores on the Web fills an important gap in the current crop of
e- commerce books, focusing on the general challenges facing would-be online
sellers and providing resource pointers for the reader to clear each hurdle.
This isn't a technical book but rather a pragmatic walk through all the
issues you'll face when hanging your shingle out on the Web. This book
is great for anyone who is curious about how commerce on the Web works.
It provides a rather comprehensive overview of each key topic, including
business models, marketing, shipping, design, and payment processing. Most
readers will be introduced to issues they hadn't even considered previously.
The book is chock-full of pointers to real-world sites that either illustrate
approaches or provide key services like marketing or payment processing.
ISBN: 0201700050 |
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Administering
IIS4
This practical, task-oriented guide explains exactly what you need to know
to "get IIS 4.0 right" the first time regardless of your level
of experience with Web servers or earlier versions of IIS! Clear, concise,
step-by-step instructions walk you through virtually every aspect of installation,
configuration, and system management including comprehensive discussion
of administering servers, clients, and content developers. ISBN: 0070655367 |
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Internet Information
Server Resource Kit
The anchor of Microsoft's Internet technology architecture is the company's
Internet Information Server (IIS). IIS 4.0 is the latest version of this
Web server and, just as with the Windows operating systems, Webmasters
can rely on the Microsoft Internet Information Server Resource Kit for
a well-rounded reference to the product. This kit is a definitive support
guide to IIS deployment and Web application development for IIS Web sites.
It covers IIS from a wide variety of angles, including performance tuning,
the content-creation life cycle, and management of Internet Service Provider
(ISP) functionality. ISBN: 1572316381 |
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Teach Yourself
The Internet in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours, Third Edition, gets you quickly
get connected to the Internet. Learn to send and receive e-mail, find and
browse Web sites, read and post to newsgroups, and apply the Internet to
your everyday office and home life. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-understand
style, the book avoids confusing jargon at all costs, clearly telling you
just what you need to know in order to become productive. ISBN: 0672315890 |
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Teach Yourself
HomeSite 4 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself HomeSite 4 in 24 Hours shows you how to create, manage,
and deploy web sites using HomeSite 4. Learn to take full advantage of
the powerful HomeSite application. All of the tools are covered in detail,
including the edit and browse views, tree views, site management tools,
color palette and graphics tools, project management, application wizards,
menus, toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, and customization options. This book
provides tips and tricks available in version 4.0, straight from the people
who wrote the product. ISBN: 0672315602 |
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101 Ways to Promote
Your Web Site
This book outlines tools such as templates, checklist, and forms as well
as techniques like using e-mail, links, and on-line advertising that will
increase the number of repeat visitors and first-time hits. Strategies
that can be implemented in a day, a sample maintenance and implementation
schedule for site updating, and a comprehensive list of search engines
will be useful to beginning and experienced webmasters. Also included is
a personal password for accessing a private companion Web site filled with
Web site promotion news. ISBN: 1885068379 |
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Advertising on
the Internet 2nd Edition
A hands-on guide to buying and selling advertising space on the World Wide
Web There are two main areas of advertising on the Internet that
people are trying to learn: how to buy advertising space on someone else's
Web page, and how to sell advertising on their own Web site. This book
gives advertising managers and designers the information they need to put
quality advertising on the Internet. ISBN: 0471344044 |
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