Books about Web Development

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Editor, Stephen Plain

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* Just off the Presses: The Art of Cascading Style Sheets,
the All-in-One JavaScript Source, On the Loose: Active
Server Pages 2.0
* What's Hot? Web Development Bestsellers at Press Time
* Recommended Reading: Virtual Private Networks
* Almost Published: Books That Are Selling Before They've
Even Been Printed
* Featured Reviews: "Webmaster in a Nutshell"

JUST OFF THE PRESSES
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"Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition: Designing for
the Web"
by Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201596253/entertainmentsit
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is an essential technology to
master if you want to be at the top of your game in Web
development, and there's no better way to learn CSS than
from those responsible for its ongoing development. Authored
by two experts on the World Wide Web Consortium--Hakon Wium
Lie and Bert Bos--"Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition:
Designing for the Web" presents the ins, the outs, and
perhaps most importantly, the whys of CSS. A graphical and
colorful presentation makes this guide easy to follow yet
immensely informative. It covers all of the background and
details of CSS, including aural style sheets and inheritance.
XML is also introduced, along with an HTML 4 quick reference
especially applicable to CSS.

"Pure JavaScript"
by R. Allen Wyke, Jason D. Gilliam, and Charlton Ting
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672315475/entertainmentsit
Often relegated to a chapter or two in HTML reference books,
JavaScript is frequently portrayed too cavalierly. "Pure
JavaScript" is a definitive guide written by programmers for
programmers, and it offers quite comprehensive coverage. In
addition to a very complete language reference, it provides
consistent and complete articulation of version compatibility,
addressing the important variations between the Microsoft
and Netscape implementations. The authors use code examples
at every turn to ensure clarity and make sure to address key
issues such as security, cookie management, and form processing.
Push those fat HTML guides over on your bookshelf, and add
this title for a truly complete reference library.

"Active Server Pages 2.0: Unleashed"
by Stephen Walther
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672316137/entertainmentsit
If you code Web sites for a living and work with Microsoft
IIS solutions, Active Server Pages (ASPs) probably make up a
crucial piece of your overall strategy. "Active Server
Pages 2.0: Unleashed" is a lengthy guide updated to include
all of ASP 2.0's features and developments in Microsoft's
architectural strategy--it contains all the answers for
professional ASP implementation. Whether you need guidance
in accessing SQL databases or developing a sophisticated
distributed application, it's in here. The book is organized
in an easy-to-use solutions-based format with a balanced
presentation of text and accompanying code on CD-ROM. Three
full-featured sample applications do a good job of
illustrating the possibilities of ASP.

WHAT'S HOT?
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At the top of this month's Web Development bestseller list
are a popular HTML 4 guide, a bible for the JavaScript
believer, and a resource for creating Active Server Pages.

"HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide"
by Elizabeth Castro
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201696967/entertainmentsit
Ask any burgeoning Web page author what is desirable in an
HTML guide, and the list would go something like this:
concise, informative, plenty of examples, and fun without
being too cute. Elizabeth Castro's "HTML for the World Wide
Web" is that dream guide to learning this Web language.

"JavaScript Bible, 3rd Edition"
by Danny Goodman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764531883/entertainmentsit
Danny Goodman has repeatedly proven himself an excellent
teacher of programming languages, and this latest edition of
"JavaScript Bible" reinforces his reputation. If you're
familiar with HTML and want to endow your pages with the
kind of animation and interactivity that JavaScript can
provide, this book is the best you can buy.

"Professional Active Server Pages 2.0"
by Alex Fedorov, Richard Harrison, Dave Sussman, Brian
Francis, and Stephen Wood
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861001266/entertainmentsit
"Professional Active Server Pages 2.0" is a thorough and
intelligently organized text that covers all the bases for
developing state-of-the-art Web sites powered by Microsoft
Web technologies. The book discusses the Internet in terms
of the history of client/server systems and describes why it
is a better way to deliver scalable, maintainable systems
using thin clients.

Explore our top 50 computer titles, updated weekly:
The Computer Top 50

RECOMMENDED READING: PUBLICLY PRIVATE CONNECTIONS
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Sprawling corporate businesses depend upon the coupling of
the Internet and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as safe and
encrypted conduits for communication and data exchange
across large geographical areas. The appeal of VPNs lies in
their ability to use the open Internet as a means of
providing fast, cheap, and secure links among the nodes of
an organizational network. A VPN can take the form of
connections among a company's geographically distributed
facilities, connections between a roaming dial-in user and
secure network resources, and extranets that incorporate
customers and suppliers or some combination thereof.
The Computer Top 50

ALMOST PUBLISHED
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Web Development guides that have garnered the most
pre-orders from Amazon.com customers--before they've even
been published.

"Designing Exceptional Websites: Secrets of an Information
Architect"
by Jakob Nielsen
Publication date: October 1999
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/156205810X/entertainmentsit
"Designing Excellent Websites" authoritatively examines the
principles of Web site design and information architecture.
This book teaches how to build Web sites that stand out from
the noise of the Web and bring the user to the content in an
effective and efficient way.

"Director 7 Demystified: The Official Guide to Macromedia
Director, Lingo and Shockwave"
by Jason Roberts and Phil Gross
Publication date: January 2000
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201354454/entertainmentsit
Macromedia Director is the leading platform for developing
interactive multimedia. "Director 7 Demystified" is a
comprehensive reference guide to all the complexities and
concepts you need to know to master Director and the related
Lingo and Shockwave technologies.

FEATURED REVIEWS: "WEBMASTER IN A NUTSHELL"
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"Webmaster in a Nutshell (Nutshell Handbook)"
by Stephen Spainhour and Robert Eckstein
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565923251/entertainmentsit
The Webmaster Force, in benevolent open-source fashion,
courses through "Webmaster in a Nutshell." You'll want a
copy within reach as a quick reference to open standards
such as HTML, XML (extensible markup language), Perl, HTTP,
and Apache Web server administration. Today's Webmasters
must be literate in a number of different--and
ever-evolving--languages and technologies. This book is
a tool for dealing with this demanding requirement.

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