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SitePoint Pty. Ltd. (sitepoint.com), provider of fun, practical, and easy-to-understand content for web professionals, has announced the release of The Art & Science Of CSS -- a guide to creating inspirational web sites using CSS. The Who's Who of web design have joined forces to share their secrets to creating inspirational web sites with CSS. Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith and Jonathan Snook take the building blocks of traditional web site design and bring them to life with innovative CSS techniques. more

If you want to learn how to effectively create good looking and professional web sites, pick up CSS: The Missing Manual and learn the real magic of this tool. It provides support for all major Web browsers and is one of the first books to thoroughly document the newly expanded CSS support in IE7. This book starts with the basics of CSS and then drills down into the details of the code providing examples.

Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages
Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows
Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML
Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages work consistently from browser to browser
Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML tables

Developing Quality Metadata - With the explosion of new audio and video content on the Web, its more important than ever to use accurate and comprehensive metadata to get the most out of that content. Developing Quality Metadata is an advanced user guide that will help you improve your metadata by making it accurate and coherent with your own solutions. This book is designed to get you thinking about solving problems in a proactive and productive way by including practical descriptions of powerful programming tools and user techniques using several programming languages. For example, you can use shell scripting as part of the graphic arts and media production process, or you can use a popular spreadsheet application to drive your workflow. The concepts explored in this book are framed within the context of a multimedia professional working on the Web or in broadcasting, but they are relevant to anyone responsible for a growing library of content, be it audio-visual, text, or financial.

*Solutions to build your own tools instead of buying off-the-shelf software solutions
*Real-world examples and case studies explore the usefulness of the tools
*Author Cliff Wootton has been building tools and applications for producing and delivering multimedia content for the last 25 years

"Javascript - The Definitive Guide" provides a rapid and thorough exposition of the JavaScript programming language, as well as an in-depth reference section covering each JavaScript function, object, method, and even handler. Experienced programmers will quickly find the information they need to start writing JavaScript programs. 5th Edition more

According to author David Flanagan, "If you own the 4th edition of this book, you might be wondering whether it is worth upgrading to the 5th edition. This really is a major overhaul, with lots and lots of new material. I've written about what's new in this edition on my blog

"Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual" - (O'Reilly, US $39.99),

"If you have an earlier version of Elements, you'll find a fair number of
similarities in the basic editing functions, but Elements 5 gives you a lot of new ways to tackle old projects," says Brundage. Her new book clearly and concisely explains how all the new tools and commands work and when to use them. "With so many appealing new features, Photoshop Elements 5 is definitely a welcome, even essential update, no matter which version of Elements you might have used before." more

Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up.

This title concentrates on modern, best-practice techniques from the very beginning, which means you'll get it right the first time. The web sites you'll build will:

Look good on a PC, Mac or Linux computer

Render correctly whether your visitors are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or Safari

Use web standards so your sites will be fast loading and easy to maintain

Be accessible to disabled users who use screenreaders to browse the Web

Adobe's Creative Suite offers a powerful unified design environment that includes Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS 2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2 and Acrobat 7.0. Problem is, you've still got to learn the thing, and learn it well: Your job, after all, depends on it. No one understands that better than the authors of this book, who draw on their own real-world professional knowledge to deliver all the industrial-strength production techniques and timesaving tips you need to start creating print and web projects with the Creative Suite 2 in record time. You'll find everything you need here to successfully master its advanced tools; working with the Adobe Bridge file browser, Stock Photos and more. more

"HTML Utopia, 2nd Edition" Teaches CSS from the Ground Up

- illustrates the ways in which CSS can help develop web sites that are easier to maintain, quicker to update, and faster to load.

-Make websites compatible with Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 7

-Build 1-, 2-, and 3-column layouts using CSS

-Create site footers below columns, and extend columns down to the footer

-Improve sites' accessibility using CSS and semantic HTML

-An updated CSS2.1 property reference guide is also included.

Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management

This authoritative reference manual is targeted towards the professional developer, engineer or project manager involved in the planning, development and/or production of digital rights management and/or multimedia security.

Flash 8 Recipes From the Experts

"Flash 8 Cookbook"--O'Reilly's Latest Release

"I wrote this book for anyone who wants to learn solutions to specific tasks using Flash," states Joey Lott. " Whether you're a Flash beginner or

a Flash expert, this book is designed to help you with answers to real-world problems."

This is a practical nuts-and-bolts toolkit with ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. With 280 standalone recipes, this handy resource guide follows O'Reilly's popular Problem/Solution/Discussion Cookbook format--including brief explanations of how and why the solutions work.

Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and

Interactivity" (O'Reilly, US $34.99) provides graphically appealing, hands-on examples that teach by illustration, not with text-heavy description. Each project in the book grounds you in design concepts and goals before moving on to implementation and scripting. With this book, you will learn to:

-Understand Flash concepts quickly

-Accomplish tangible goals in creative ways

-Create everything from simple animations to interactive elements and

custom web site interfaces

-Enhance projects with graphics, sound, and video

-Master animation techniques such as tweening, morphing, and dynamic

masking

-Learn ActionScript to take control of your content

-Develop Flash content for e-Learning, CD-ROM, and mobile devices
more

"Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition" - An Up-to-the-Minute Quick Reference - The third edition of O'Reilly's "Web Design in a Nutshell" (Robbins, O'Reilly, $34.99 US), has been completely rewritten and expanded to reflect the state of the art. In addition to being an authoritative reference for (X)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, this book also provides an overview of the unique requirements of designing for the Web and gets to the nitty-gritty of JavaScript and DOM Scripting, web graphics optimization, and multimedia production. It is an indispensable tool for web designers and developers of all levels.

Organized so that readers can find answers quickly, "Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition" helps experienced designers come up to speed quickly on standards-based web design, and serves as a quick reference for those already familiar with the new standards and technology.

"Flash 8: The Missing Manual" (Vander Veer , O'Reilly, $34.99 US) is the ideal instructor.

This hands-on guide to today's hottest web design tool is aimed at non-developers, and it teaches you how to translate your ideas into great web content. "Flash 8: The Missing Manual" begins with a solid primer on animation, which helps you get comfortable with the Flash interface. Once you have these basics under your belt, "Flash 8: The Missing Manual" shows

you how to:

-Incorporate graphics, video clips, and soundtracks

-Create reusable elements and templates to give your animations a consistent, sophisticated look

-Customize your content with ActionScript, the Flash language that gives you maximum control

-Publish your Flash creations for web surfers everywhere to enjoy

-Learn good design principles and helps you avoid elements that can distract or annoy an audience more

To build web sites and utilize web video and multimedia, you need to understand HTML and web site design. Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML is an outstanding and easy to read book with plenty of diagrams and how to do it instructions for those who want to really learn and master the basics of HTML.

Learn the real secrets of creating Web pages, and why everything your boss told you about HTML tables is probably wrong (and what to do instead). Most importantly, hold your own with your co-worker (and impress cocktail party guests) when he casually mentions how his HTML is now strict, and his CSS is in an external style sheet.

With Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, you'll avoid the embarrassment of thinking Web-safe colors still matter, and the foolishness of slipping a font tag into your pages. Best of all, you'll learn HTML and CSS in a way that won't put you to sleep.

Mapping Online Gets Personal and Creative

"Google Maps Hacks" (Erle and Gibson, O'Reilly, US $29.99) is the perfect book for anyone interested in creating customized, interactive maps for personal or commercial use.

With the tricks and techniques found in "Google Maps Hacks," anyone can adapt Google's satellite map features to create interactive maps for personal applications or for businesses ranging from real estate, to package delivery, to home services, transportation, and more. Such diverse information as apartment listings, crime reporting or flight routes can be integrated with Google's satellite imagery in creative ways, to yield new and useful applications.

Using FrontPage 2000 by QUE.

Written by Neil Randall and Dennis Jones, this immense 1200 page plus manual covers almost everything you could possibly want to know about using FrontPage 2000 to design and develop your web site. Even though FrontPage 2000 is not the latest version of the program, many people prefer it because it is not part of Microsoft Office 2002 and its "unique" registration policies.

I am a self-taught FrontPage user and thought I was pretty good. However, within seconds of opening the book and reading, I started finding new tips and techniques that immediately solved problems that I had researched in other FrontPage books but had been unable to find.

This is not a "dummies" book. Designed for intermediate to advanced users, it covers everything from site development and design, site management, collaborative techniques, scripting and dynamic HTML, web servers, adding databases to your web site and using Visual Basic for Applications.

The enclosed CD-ROM includes excerpts from other QUE Special Edition Office 2000 books, as well as hundreds of FrontPage Themes, web graphics and clip arts files. It also includes a bunch of demo and shareware FrontPage plug-ins and third party web development tools.

As this book was written in 1999, it is not up to date on the latest developments in web video and streaming media. However, it does cover the basics of working with video and audio files.