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Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies (Do-It-Yourself for Dummies)

1 review
Janine C. Warner

For Dummies, 2008

Very disappointing.
I am a photographer who has put off building a website because I simply didn't know where to start and I can't afford to hire consultants to set one up for me. I finally got a basic website up and running using the free Jalbum templates until I can build a fully custom and comprehensive website of my own. I bought this book because it looked like it would be useful in helping me achieve that ...

The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)

21 reviews
Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, ...

Prentice Hall PTR, 2006

Exactly what I needed!
This book tells me exactly what to do to design a website. I'm a researcher in a government lab working on a large aeronautics and data mining research project. We'd like our work to be more open to the public, and I'm responsible for designing a website to engage the public in active collaboration. I've got less than a year, I have a small inexperienced team (me included), and I'm trying to ...

101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site (101 Ways series)

65 reviews
Susan Sweeney

Maximum Press, 2008

Nice Pin Point ....
THis is a very easy to read book, with some examples, some times i wish those were more detailed but they are good... it PIN POINT the clue points (sorry for so many points ) to have more traffic in your page and to correct most of the mistakes made in the desing stage. Bring this idea to my mind... "Web Designers are not the best web Traffic designers for a page " so read this book is a good ...

Graphic Guide to Site Construction: Over 325 Details for Builders and Designers

2 reviews
Rob Thallon

Taunton, 2003

finally the book i've been looking for!!!
i am so thankful to the authors of this book! they explained everything with such clarity and attention to detail. i am recommending this book to a lot of fellow landscape designers. this book has clear and well drawn details on a lot of landcape structures. it is far far better than a lot of text books on the same subject, and it's worth ten times more than its price.

Building a Web Site For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

17 reviews
David A. Crowder

For Dummies, 2007

Building a Web Site
No matter what you're doing for pleasure or for business this is the book to have. It is so well written and understandable. Personally I want to start a stay at home business since I am just becoming a bit more handicapped. However, it will benefit anyone who wants to know more about that computer we all have and want to know more.

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

26 reviews
Dan Brown

New Riders Press, 2006

Communicating Design
It is for my Information Design class. I haven't used it yet, but it arrived on time and in good condition..

Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual

18 reviews
Matthew MacDonald

Pogue Press, 2005

Absolutely great book!
I have been searching for a good, fairly insightful, starter book on what to do to set up a website, that wasn't too advanced or way to boring. This is it! The author knows his stuff, brings it into the learning forum in such a way that you are excited to read the next section and re-read for additional insights previously completed sections. I am going to use this book, and will probably ...

The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations (Leadership Network Innovation Series, ...

9 reviews
Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, ...

Zondervan, 2006

Must read for any church considering multi-site
Geoff Surratt and team provide an amazing resource for any church considering a multi-site strategy. This book is extremely informative, asks probing questions to help you think through why you want to go multi-site, how to do it, etc. They provide great tools to help you create timelines and budgets. It has been a fabulous resource to help my church start moving aggressively toward our vision ...

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

28 reviews
Steve Souders

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Optimizing the front-end experience
When conversation turns to performance, we often focus on the database, application servers, or a multitude of other backend processes, and completely forget about the front-end: CSS, JavaScript, filesizes, conditional requests, and request pipelining. In this book, Steve Souders documents the best practices for optimizing your front-end experience, which can often yield significant improvements ...

Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications

24 reviews
Cal Henderson

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Great resource, tells you what you need to know if you are just starting in this field
The book introduces the tools, processes, and high level architectures used in building large websites like Flickr, Youtube, etc. It is short enough to give you the high level framework and send you to explore various other books, software tools, etc to get more depth as needed. I found it very valuable.

Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability

9 reviews
Luke Wroblewski

Wiley, 2002

Visual & "wordy" is what makes this book great!
As a fan of Site-Seeing, I must respond to a few of the reviews asserting that the author should have condensed certain material in the book. For me, the many visual examples and the great, detailed explanations (one reviewer suggested "wordy") are exactly what makes this book so useful. Rather than just skimming over important design concepts, the author actually takes the time to properly ...

PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

128 reviews
Larry Ullman

Peachpit Press, 2007

Best for getting up to speed fast using PHP 6 and MySQL 5
I'll keep it brief since "Customer" nailed it with their review already, but wanted to say with this book and the free manuals on PHP and MySQL I was up to speed and developed my first dynamic web site in a matter of weeks, reading and learning part-time at night. I wanted to go a bit further than just basic PHP and MySQL as part of a current personal project; researching and learning about ...

Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB

35 reviews
Cristian Darie, Zak Ruvalcaba

SitePoint, 2006

I found the right book to learn asp.net
I am an asp programmer. And I would like to transform myself into asp.net. after trying one title after another by reading the PDF files that I found on the net, I thought I found the right book ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed from Stephen Walther. I bought the book and learned from it. But I got stuck somewhere after the basic controls. The author assumes that the reader is either intermediate or advanced ...

Building Web Sites All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

1 review
Doug Sahlin, Claudia Snell

For Dummies, 2007

Not Bad
I got this book to help me with web design. However I found myself getting lost on some things. I wish they had better examples and actual try this yourself projects to go along with the chapters. I would recommend a simpler book for learning basic web design. This book is a good reference to have on your book shelf if you ever get more involved in web design. Over all Not Bad.

Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office ...
Andrew Connell

Wrox, 2008

The first book to focus on SharePoint Server as a robust platform for Web content Written by two SharePoint MVPs, this book walks developers through creating a Web content management platform on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Begins with an overview of the various features of MOSS, Web Content Management (WCM) fundamentals, and the services available on the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) platform Examines ...

The Site Book : A Field Guide to Commercial Real Estate Evaluation (Mesa Professional Development Series)

8 reviews
Richard M. Feuker

Mesa House Publishing, 1996

The location point of view from real estate
The book is a also complete guide about evaluation site. May be the index could be better if it would have a clear reference to the clasic topics: supply and demand. The way for define trade areas is not the most complex that exist. The book shows like standar distances 1 mile, 1-3 miles and 3-5 miles from demand to the consumer. But that distance perhaps is not good for cities where ...

Site Engineering for Landscape Architects

6 reviews
Steven Strom, Kurt Nathan, ...

Wiley, 2004

A great site engineering reference book for architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and engineers
Site Engineering is a difficult subject for many landscape students and designers, yet it is a very important aspect of landscape architecture. As a landscape architect, you probably do not have to produce a grading plan (it can be done by a civil engineer), but you do need to have some basic site engineering knowledge to be able to coordinate your work with civil and other consultants. You do ...

A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey

3 reviews
Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

The Most Relevant Available
I have led 10 study tours to Turkey and Greece (University students and adult learners). I like this book so much that all the participants bring it along. Group members then read about the sites we will vist the night before and with the information supplied by F&R they are primed and well prepared for the next day. The book is oriented toward biblical sites and the commentary and maps are ...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

40 reviews
Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

A lifesaver
As project manager, I was in a bind when our contract information architect failed to understand the complexities of our matrixed business model and client base. Rosenfeld's book helped me design a IA for our 700 page HTML site that has since been described as simple, intuitive, a no-brainer. What great compliments! The book describes basic theories of IA in general (i.e. book indexes ...

1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die

Barrons Educational Series, 2008

Both casual travelers and dedicated history buffs will relish this visitor's guide to palaces, cathedrals, temples, battlefields, homes of great artists and statesmen--places and monuments that bear witness to thousands of years of human history. Packed with vivid color photos and detailed textual entries 1001 Historic Sites carries its readers off to places that include: Prehistoric Sites: Stonehenge, England; the Lescaux Cave ...

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