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I was looking to create a website for my work group that was professional looking and modern. I had played with HTML on an off, mostly copying other sites and cutting and pasting things. I became interested in learning CSS, what they were and how to use them. After borrowing "Eric Meyer on CSS" I realized I was over my head, I could parrot the examples but didn't really know what I was doing or how to repeat it. I really needed a more basic and solid foundation. br / br /I stumbled across this book browsing the local bookstore and bought it from Amazon for the price break. This book is a treasure. The writing is clear, concise and flows well. The layout is colorful but well organized and not too busy. The author first gives a solid foundation in HTML/XHTML, describing the different HTML tags, pointing out how things have changed over the years and advocating for the current best practices, HTML for semantic markup and CSS for presentation. I appreciate the consistent sidebars describing browser inconsistencies and quirks. br / br /The section on CSS is great and gives a good foundation for using CSS to markup the display of HTML elements and how to use it to set the layout of a page, instead of using table cells. When the more advanced topics of floats and page layout templates are discussed, while still a good foundation, the material becomes a little more sparse and difficult to follow, but this is a minor problem. br / br /One of my favorite features of this book is the consistent sidebars in each chapter detailing web-sites and resources where you can go for more information on a topic. The author focuses in the main text on presenting the basics and providing a foundation. At the same time, she realizes that there is much more to a topic than she can present and kindly provides the reader with places to go to find it, and keeps those references in context (right next to the topic at hand). br / br /I'm not a professional web developer, nor is that my aspiration. However, I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on Dreamweaver or other software just to create a nice looking web-site. This book showed me how to do it the right way and cleared away alot of misconceptions and bad practices I had adopted over the years, cutting and pasting HTML from pages I liked. br / br /I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in gaining a solid foundation in (X)HTML and CSS. Now I feel comfortable going back to Meyer's book and other references with a solid understanding of the basic principles.

This book is pretty much what you think it is, about 200 pages of site thumbnails. Interspersed throughout are write-ups on the category that is being presented and a little intro by the author. br / br /The actual sites themselves are pretty good. I wasn't blown away by them, but was impressed and inspired. I keep a folder of bookmarks of sites that I think look good, categorized by "theme". This is a nice little handheld thing to quickly scan through to get some quick ideas or some quick inspiration. br / br /I do wish some of the thumbnails would have been bigger, the pages a little larger, or the book itself a little taller. Some of the pages are stuffed with thumbnails and it can be a little difficult to discern what that header really looks like, or what that button really says. br / br /Also, some of the themes could have used a couple more sites. Some categories like blogs are literally 2 pages. If you're gonna have a whole category I'm sure you can find a few more pages of nice sites to fill. br / br /With all that being said this is a good book for 15 bucks. Especially if you are a web designer of any sort, this is a great resource to just have and flip through right before a new project.

Rapid Portlet Developme with WebSphere Portlet Factory: Step-by-Step
Guide for Building Your Own Portlets (c) by IBM Press

The type of the release is: eBook
In the PDF format with ISBN: 0137134460 and Pub Date: September 21, 2008
The size of the release is: 04 disks x 2.88mb
And released on: 09/19/2008


The Step-by-Step Guide to Building World-Class Portlet Solutions–Fast!

Portlet Factory simplifies and accelerates portlet development,
enabling developers to build world-class portlet solutions without
in-depth knowledge of portal technology.

Expert developer David Bowley walks you through several of today’s most
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The best resource available on WebSphere Portlet Factory, this
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to understand easily, but sophisticated enough to be valuable in
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developers transitioning to WebSphere Portal.

Coverage includes

· Creating robust portlets: tips, tricks, shortcuts, and
previously undocumented ‘gotchas’
views/forms, and SQL data sources into your portlets
· Formatting information for more effective display
· Adding UI controls, charts, validation, Java methods, and other
capabilities
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· Using AJAX in your portlets
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· Implementing error handling, logging, and security

The type of the release is: eBook
In the PDF format with ISBN: 0321515382 and Pub Date: November 24, 2007
The size of the release is: 04 disks x 2.88mb
And released on: 09/19/2008


Just as great artists must understand their tools, great Web designers
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--Updated for the most recent tools, techniques, and standards
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Semantic Web services promise to automate tasks such as discovery,
mediation, selection, composition, and invocation of services,
enabling fully flexible automated e-business. Their usage, however,
still requires a significant amount of human intervention due to
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In this book, Jos de Bruijn and his coauthors lay the foundations
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functional description of the service, and the behavioral
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Academic and industrial researchers as well as professionals will
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Whether searching, shopping, or socializing, Web users leave behind
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Semantics and ontologies offer an extension to traditional
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Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society brings together
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applications of semantics and ontologies. This authoritative
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technologies and far reaching implications, offering academicians
and practitioners a compendium of knowledge in Semantic Web
engineering.

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